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In reply to the discussion: Ted Lieu just tweeted the real crowd numbers from El Paso to Trump [View all]calimary
(80,699 posts)30. I remember when Nancy Reagan was addressing a crowd and started out
with an appreciative comment about all these beautiful white faces in the audience. And then she realized how that might look, and quickly added and black faces (although I suspect she was right the first time, considering the composition of a majority of Reagans supporters).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1980/11/11/behind-the-mask-street-smarts-and-sweet-certainty/d3b76105-fd0b-45dd-88ea-17f20f581e64/?utm_term=.01879127efc5
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Ted Lieu just tweeted the real crowd numbers from El Paso to Trump [View all]
highplainsdem
Feb 2019
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Fire Depts are experienced at estimating crowd sizes. So I will take their estimates over the
yellowcanine
Feb 2019
#10
MSNBC just reported 6500 for trump inside, 10000 outside. 8000 for Beto.. need to send them the
notdarkyet
Feb 2019
#17
What do you get when you have 6,500 Trump supporters in an arena together?
backscatter712
Feb 2019
#33
There are ten million people in this audience, but the enemy-of-the-people
rusty fender
Feb 2019
#42