Romney says '30K attend OH rally' - BUT Secret Service says just 15K went through metal detector

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Good Lord - Do they feel they have to lie about everything?

The campaign announced that 30,000 people attended, but Secret Service sources said just 15,000 went through metal detectors. And local law enforcement counted the crowd at 18,000.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1112/83252.html#ixzz2B8NuTL00

[Drunken Irishman]

1. Have to artificially inflate crowds...desperation...tisk, tisk.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

2. and that's not counting the many folks who the AP reported left before Willard spoke

He must have had a truly scant crowd for his big finale

[Tx4obama]

3. And after Kid Rock was finished playing tons of the folks got up and left while Mitt was talking :)

[JimDandy]

13. Same thing happened at Red Rocks Colorado about 10 days ago.

People streamed out when Mitt started speaking after Kid Rock was done playing. Bet they also handed out free tickets at this venue in Ohio when they couldn't get enough Repubs to come to their campaign offices to be pre-screened for tickets.

[VirginiaTarheel]

4. Busted

Etch and Sketch crowds

[VirginiaTarheel]

5. Arithmetic

[barnabas63]

6. +1 too sciency for the republicans eom

[politicaljack78]

7. It was 30,000 !

Just 12-15,000 had been outsourced. And another 10-15 were waiting in the pipeline to be outsourced.

[merrily]

8. At this point, he knows he will lose, but is trying to avoid a humiliating loss.

He's been good at humiliating others, but the thought of being humiliated by others must kill him inside.

karma

[progressivebydesign]

9. So it was 15k, AND half of them left when Mitt started talking.. after the free concert.

They are so pathetic. People come to see the President, and they love the music there (if they have any) but the main attraction is The Man himself.

Mitt? He's the free pizza you used to get when you agreed to go to your friend's creepy church group after school.

[tblue37]

12. Backwards. Kid Rock is the free (lukearm and greasy) pizza, and

Mitt is the creepy church group you have to put up with to get the free concert--er, pizza.

[Charlotte Little]

33. OMFG...

[Smilo]

38. Slight correction to your post ........... creepy church cult n/t

[GP6971]

10. And this

surprises who? Not me. Lying is his first nature to his whole campaign.

[JohnnyRingo]

11. Maybe half of them didn't have to go through.

They may have given the pass to everyone named Romney and Osmond.

[Coyotl]

21. At Romney rallies, only 47% are required to go through security

apparently

[rightsideout]

14. Republican Math is based on Myth

[Cha]

15. Oh yeah, I was going to say..still a lot of

brainwashed wanting to listen to mittLies and then I remembered kid rock.

[Turbineguy]

16. Count the legs

and multiply by two!

[BouzoukiKing]

17. Does the Secret Service's 15k...

...count the people who left at the back and came in through the front entrance for a second time?

And has Photoshop been taken into account?

[wishlist]

18. Thx- MSNBC said 30000 worrying me about Ohio despite polls

Romney knows what he's doing- inflating the number to discourage Dems and build momentum for his side.

[Tutonic]

19. when the man doubles down ya'll

he literally doubles down!

[Coyotl]

20. They are just throwing fuel on their own fire at this point.

[Thor_MN]

22. Quite simple, Romney is on both sides of every issue, so you have to multply by 2 to guage

the effect of his speaking.

[meow2u3]

23. There WERE 30K--if you count the number of faces that attended

instead of the number of bodies.

We all know that repukes are two-faced, so Robme's half right for a change.

[heaven05]

24. whoa!

15000 brain dead zombie rombots in one place. Geez that is ugly!

[kerouac2]

25. Someone should sneak in to their rallies and...

Switch the music when Romney comes out to "Sweet Little Lies" by Fleetwood Mac...


If I could turn the page
In time then I'd rearrange just a day or two
Close my, close my, close my eyes

But I couldn't find a way
So I'll settle for one day to believe in you
Tell me, tell me, tell me lies

Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh, no, no you can't disguise
(You can't disguise, no you can't disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies

Although I'm not making plans
I hope that you understand there's a reason why
Close your, close your, close your eyes

[Lightsource777]

26. Even if they had 30k, doesn't predict winner

They exaggerated and that seems desperate but even if they hadn't... I remember Kerry got humongous crowds and still lost.

[liberal N proud]

27. They are not capable of the truth.

[hockeynut57]

28. kid rock epitomizes the racist white trash that are romney voters nt

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

29. Half of them had Elvin cloaks of invisibility

They had just come from seeing the Elves in Lothlórien. That would explain the discrepancy.

[CreekDog]

30. Romney campaign says Secret Service's 15k estimate is wrong

The real number is 30k. The Secret Service only counted people on the way in.

[aletier_v]

31. Because Secret Service is controlled by Obama. :0

It's a wonder that Romney isn't afraid of being assasinated by them, too.

[dynasaw]

42. They didn't need to get through the metal detector

they flew in on angel wings.

[Johnyawl]

32. Rupert Murdoch: Secret Service Must 'Re-Declare' there were 30,000 For Mitt Romney 'Or Take Blame'

[louis-t]

34. So, 15,000 DIDN'T go throught he metal detector?

[Mrloserpunk]

35. He apparently is having some issues in VA getting people out

Enthusiastic crowd, but hard not to notice the rows of empty seats at the back of this Romney rally in Virginia Beach. #2012
— @sppeoples via web


Also, consider this was in butler county Ohio right? Didn't McCain carry that by near 20 points? If he couldn't get a huge crowd there, he would be dead already. But why the need to still drum up support where he is almost guaranteed to win anywys?

Meanwhile, Obama had a rally in Lima Ohio in Allen county. A county he lost to John McCain.


Looks like romeny is playing defense and trying to stop leakage in counties he must win in Ohio!

[frylock]

36. lies make baby missouri jesus cry

[skeewee08]

37. So is the M$M going to report Monday crowds for

President O, when Springsteen & JZ perform...

[theKed]

39. It's just rounding off

like how, say, -5 is tied in the pools. It's just arithmetic!

[VPStoltz]

40. And he can prove it with the doctored photos his campaign uses.

Are you going to believe Robbedme or your own lyin' eyes?

[Rollin]

41. Did they check for signs of intelligence

They should use a Mental Detector