NYT says that Obama's Cleveland crowd was "thin"

[book_worm]

(Oh yes, that "enthusiasm gap" that they like to talk about even though in Ohio Dems are leading in early voting)

CLEVELAND — President Obama wrapped up a weekend of last-minute campaigning in Ohio on Sunday, addressing Democrats in an indoor arena that, in a sign of the “enthusiasm gap” that the president is working so hard to close, was little more than half full.

About 8,000 people attended the Democratic National Committee’s Moving America Forward’ rally at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center, a hall where the capacity is 13,000. The rafters were largely empty.

Organizers noted the president was competing on a Sunday afternoon with church, football and Halloween. And Mr. Obama drew a huge crowd of about 35,000 when he was in nearby Columbus, Ohio, in an earlier October rally. Still, the thin crowd was perhaps a foreboding sign in the waning days of the midterm races, when Mr. Obama, who was joined Sunday by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., considers getting Democrats to the polls his most important mission.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/31/thin-crowd-for-cleveland-campaign-rally/

[alsame]

1. It's Halloween. Some people with kids may have other things

to do today.

[bigdarryl]

2. means NOTHING Hillary crowds were thin as hell before the NH

primary Obama was turning out hundreds of thousands and we know what happened Hillary and her team GOTV

[otohara]

3. Ghost Town

that's how Cleveland was described in a recent article I read about the place.

All the jobs were shipped to China & India thanks to the GOP and The Chamber of Us and only Us Commerce.

[Kolesar]

4. Cuyahoga is of the most populous counties in the country

at 1.4 million. I had a lot of lawn work to do today and I missed it.

[Berry Cool]

5. Yeah, it's hardly a "ghost town."

Lots of people still live here...even those of us without jobs.

[femmocrat]

6. He had around 35,000 in Chicago on Saturday. n/t