Trump Amazes WaPo Columnist by Drawing 60% Fewer People Than Sanders

[Judi Lynn]

Trump Amazes WaPo Columnist by Drawing 60% Fewer People Than Sanders

By Jim Naureckas

Jan

06

2016

The Washington Post‘s Chris Cillizza is gobsmacked, apparently.

“This Crowd Shot From Donald Trump’s Massachusetts Rally Is Absolutely Mind-Boggling,” the headline over Cillizza’s The Fix blog post reads (12/5/16), highlighting a photo that Post correspondent Jenna Johnson posted on Twitter:

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Cillizza commented:

The building…holds 8,000 people, and local officials were estimating that it was filled to capacity or beyond. That is a MASSIVE amount of people — especially considering that the high temperature in Lowell yesterday was 29 degrees and Trump’s rally didn’t start until the evening.

Before I get to the real point, let me note that 29 degrees in Massachusetts in January is not particularly cold—the average January temperature in Lowell is 24 degrees—and January is generally when the presidential primaries really get going, so the temperature does not really add to the remarkableness of people going to see Donald Trump at an indoor arena.

But the bigger issue is that this “MASSIVE” turnout for Trump a month before the primary is not even half the size of the crowd Bernie Sanders attracted in the same general area three months ago. As the Boston Globe (10/3/15) reported:

Sanders addressed a near-capacity crowd of 20,000 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, with a few thousand more watching a feed of his address while on Lawn on D. Hoping to secure a good spot at the event, people formed a line that stretched a half-mile down Summer Street, nearly reaching South Station two hours before the event began.

More:
http://fair.org/home/trump-amazes-wapo-columnist-by-drawing-60-fewer-people-than-sanders/

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[Proserpina]

1. Details!

Facts are stubborn things...so let's just ignore them for MSM purposes.

[KoKo]

2. Recommend! Is this the venue Trump gave tickets for 20,000 out?

and it was said the space wouldn't hold that many? If so, it seems his hopes were dashed when the 20,000 didn't storm the gates.

[Uncle Joe]

3. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Judi Lynn.