McCain Tampa Rally: Where is Everybody? Only 1,000 waiting at Raymond James

[flpoljunkie]

November 03, 2008

Tampa Tampa rally: where is everybody?

About 30 minutes before John McCain is scheduled to lead a rally outside Raymond James Stadium, looks like maybe 1,000 people here. What's up with that? On the day before the election? Bush drew at least 15,000 people to a rally just across the street.

"We are the quiet majority that goes out and gets things done..I smell victory,'' said state Rep. Kevin Ambler. Good thing he smells it, because it's hard to see it with this crowd.

Posted by Adam Smith at 8:33:13 AM on November 3, 2008

http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2008/11/tampa-tampa-ral.html

[habitual]

1. k+r n/t

[11 Bravo]

2. That's not victory you smell, Rep. Ambler. Check the bottom of your shoe ...

I think you may have stepped in some Palin.

[Tammie]

11. Stepped in some Palin!!!!

I'll be laughing at that all day!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[greenmutha]

22. DUzy!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Hope And Change]

3. K & R!

[Thrill]

4. We're suppose to believe he's going to win FL

And this is the turnout in Tampa the last day?

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. The other 14,000 are still at the Bush rally, trying to figure how to get out.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. Smells like...

We all know how that ended up, now don't we...

:rofl:

[opihimoimoi]

7. McLimp is not gonna win shit...all polls show a widening gap. The Big O gonna romp big time

1,000? the poor thing....Oh well, better than 300

[patrice]

8. They're "quiet" because they're doing the organizing in their churches AND they "get things done"

because their churches function as business cartels, controlling commerce and J - O - B - S in the name of whatever their brand of "Christianity" is.

[formercia]

9. A blast from the past:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Tuck

Pranks

Tuck first met Richard Nixon as a student at The University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1950, Tuck was working for Congresswoman Helen Gahagan Douglas. She was running for a seat in the U.S. Senate against Richard Nixon. In a 1973 Time magazine article, Tuck stated, "There was an absent-minded professor who knew I was in politics and forgot the rest. He asked me to advance a Nixon visit." Tuck agreed and launched his first prank against Nixon. He rented a big auditorium, invited only a small number of people, and gave a long-winded speech to introduce the candidate. When Nixon came on stage, Tuck asked him to speak about the International Monetary Fund. When the speech was over, Nixon asked Tuck his name and told him, "Dick Tuck, you've made your last advance."<1>

Tuck's most famous prank against Nixon is known as "the Chinatown Caper." During his campaign for Governor of California in 1962, Nixon visited Chinatown in Los Angeles. At the campaign stop, a backdrop of children holding "welcome" signs in English and Chinese was set up. As Nixon spoke, an elder from the community whispered that one of the signs in Chinese said, "What about the Hughes loan?" The sign was a reference to an unsecured $205,000 loan that Howard Hughes had made to Nixon's brother, Donald. Nixon grabbed a sign and, on camera, ripped it up. (Later, Tuck learned, to his chagrin, that the Chinese characters actually spelled out “What about the huge loan?”)

After the first Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, Tuck hired an elderly woman who put on a Nixon button and embraced the candidate in front of TV cameras. She said, "Don't worry, son! He beat you last night, but you'll get him next time."

Tuck is credited with waving a train out of the station while Nixon was still speaking, but he denies committing this prank. The prank became a Trivial Pursuit question, but cannot be attributed to Tuck. Tuck has said he did wear a conductor's hat and waved to the engineer, but that the train stayed put. He also played similar pranks against Barry Goldwater in 1964. He was dubbed by one newspaper, "the Democrat Pixie of 1964."

In 1968, Tuck utilized Republican nominee Nixon's own campaign slogan against him; he hired a very pregnant African-American woman to wander around a Nixon rally in a predominantly white area, wearing a T-shirt that said, "Nixon's the One!"

--snip--

[nichomachus]

10. And yet, if you read the polls

It all seems to neck-and-neck. I can't believe the polls aren't 75-25 Obama. McCain can't fill a phone booth for a rally and Obama can't seem to find a space big enough. Obama voters have been standing in line for 3-4-5-6 hours to vote. And the polls want us to believe it's 53-47 for Obama. Crap.

[bugisbug]

12. Everyone was probably out

looking for J-O-B-S.

Poor McCain...:nopity:

[yellowcanine]

13. "We are the quiet majority that goes out and gets things done..I smell victory,'' said state Rep. Ke

Heh. Hey Kevin. Nixon is dead. You are as clueless as your candidate.

[workinclasszero]

14. Everybody is at the unemployment office

gettin some of that socialist:scared:spread-the-wealth-around money!

[flpoljunkie]

15. MSNBC's Mika says 'pretty strong crowd' for McCain when she hasn't a clue how small it is, or she's

covering for McCain

[Ozma]

16. She's covering her ass, she wants to stay employed

GE, parent company of MSNBC must be forcing these fools to say stupid stuff to keep somebody watching.

I turned them off in favor of the Cartoon Channel, more reality there!

[flpoljunkie]

17. CNN's Ed Henry reporting from Tampa confirmed McCain's crowd at about 1,000.

Thank you, Ed Henry!

[Virginia Dare]

18. Supposedly Crist bolted with no explanation..

things don't look good for McCain in Florida...:evilgrin:

[flpoljunkie]

19. Interesting...

[Jackinbox]

20. Really?

Would love to hear more about this. Do you have a link?

[Virginia Dare]

21. Here it is, another link in LBN...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3580665

[formercia]

23. KAPO Joe Lieberman was there

standing right behind Mc:evilgrin: where his wife usually stands. Could it be? :rofl: