"Mitt Romney drawing larger crowds"
Larger than Obama's, right? Umm, no...
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1012/82348.html
Read on:
"... Mitt Romney’s crowds are getting bigger in the campaign’s final stretch.... In the past week alone, Romney’s campaign says at least three of its rallies have, per the campaign’s crowd counts, exceeded 10,000 people...
President Barack Obama is also drawing large numbers of people to his rallies, but that’s nothing new for a candidate known as a charismatic speaker, though it does mean his supporters are also fired up. And large crowds are not a reliable sign that a candidate is headed to victory....
Compared with the numbers at Obama’s rallies, Romney’s events are still generally smaller: Obama’s rally at Ohio State University earlier this week, for example, attracted 15,000 people, and an event at the University of Wisconsin last week drew, per university officials, about 30,000. Obama is the incumbent president and has always excelled at speaking in a large-rally setting, so to a certain extent comparing his crowds with Romney isn’t a fair comparison.
Ohio GOP Chairman Bob Bennett also noted that Obama often holds his events on college campuses, where students are likely to turn out. Young people were a big part of Obama’s 2008 victory. “It’s interesting to me that the president’s been going to campuses,” he said. “But when you’re giving students free food and a free concert, they’ll already show up.”
So Romney's "larger" largest crowds are one-third as large as Obama's largest, but that's only because Obama's crowds are freeloading students. OK, Politico.
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