Thread: REJECTED: Obama, Biden Play to Half-Full Arena in Last 2010

REJECTED: Obama, Biden Play to Half-Full Arena in Last 2010 Campaign Stop

Sunday, October 31, 2010
by kristinn, Free Republic

Brack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden made their last campaign rally appearance in a nearly half-empty college arena in Cleveland today.

CBS News' Mark Knoller Tweeted that the Democrat National Committtee says that the 13,600 seat arena had about 8,000 in attendance for the rally held at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center. http://twitter.com/markknoller/status/29302606316

Before the rally, the Associated Press speculated that the crowd was not going to fill the arena. http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf ... ign_s.html

Obama's (sic) was expected to appear about 2:30 p.m. at Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center. A crowd was trickling in about an hour before the president was expected, raising questions whether the arena, which can hold up to 14,000 people, would be filled.

At 1:30 p.m., only the lower bowl was full, though hundreds of people had crowded onto a portion of the floor before the stage.

Knoller's Tweet:

DNC says there were 8,000 people at the Wolstein Center at Cleveland State Univ. Full capacity is about 13,600.
19 minutes ago via web

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2618357/posts

Good thing he's going on vacation after the election. Then we only have Reid and Menendez to deal with.