haha! Only 400 turned out to meet Romney bus in Michigan stop

[WI_DEM]

Mitt Romney finished up his recent 5-day bus tour in Michigan this week with stops in Frankenmuth, Dewitt and Holland. For those of you who aren’t from Michigan, you’re forgiven if you’ve never heard of those places.

He called it the “Every Town Counts” tour (or, as The Nation magazine calls it, the “Some Towns Just Don’t Count” tour) and it had stops in 13 towns.

Romney was met at the Holland State Park by a monstrous crowd of about 400 mostly white, mostly male supporters. He was also met by a significant number of protesters, including MoveOn.org’s “No Millionaire Left Behind RomneyMobile”.

In fact, there are a substantial number of minorities in Holland, Michigan. It’s 22.7% Hispanic and 3.6% African Americans. But none of them were at Mitt Romney’s rally. They were nearby, though. Since the event was held in one of Michigan’s glorious (and oh-so-socialist) state parks, there were people of color there to swim and picnic.

They were not there to support Mitt Romney.

http://eclectablog.com/2012/06/romneys-every-town-counts-tour-hits-michigan-apparently-only-all-male-all-white-towns-count.html

[greytdemocrat]

1. Ha!!! Mr. Popular...NOT. nt

[Siwsan]

2. So, the trees in Michigan are just the right size, but the crowds, not so much?

It would be interesting to know how much of the pro-willard crowd was local, and how much of it was imported.

[patrice]

3. Right on, MoveOn!

[spanone]

4. i'll bet all the major news outlets were there....have we heard about it from them?

they travel with the soon to be nominee non-stop

[chknltl]

5. well it's not like he needs real people to vote for him....

...election fraud and voting machine fraud and big money from all over the world are on his side.

[lunasun]

12. Yep he could take Michigan without any really evidence of support that way

and they will also try hard to make sure those folks having a picnic and swim don't get to vote

[bupkus]

6. Only 400 turned out to meet Romney bus in Michigan stop

And they only showed up just to see how many dogs Rmoney could fit on top of a bus.

[Raine]

7. and 399 of them were Mormons and the other one was just wandering thru. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

8. A big chunk were probably "reporters". n/t

[Beartracks]

9. But for every one you see...

... there's like 1,000 more lurking out of sight.

And they may shrug or hold their nose when they vote, but they'll still be voting for Romney because he's the Republican.

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[MADem]

14. No they won't. They'll stay home and hope for Santorum in four years.

If they put RMoney in, they are stuck backing him for eight years. Better to suffer for four and try to get the Man On Dog fellah they truly love.

[Beartracks]

35. Why. that's just offensive!

To read your words, right next to your cute puppy avatar. The image was just... troubling...

LOL

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[MADem]

36. My little dog will bite the bums in their ankles!

They're bred to root out and kill vermin, bless their little hearts!

[rurallib]

10. Same bus tour, Quad Cities, Iowa side. I estimated his crowd at @350-400

a friend said i was way high.
Area has a metro population of @ 300,000

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

29. Is it a Republican, Democratic, or mixed area?

[rurallib]

40. sorry about the slow response - conservative Democrat cities

republican suburbs. Slight edge to Dems.
But only 300 in an area of 300,000? That is pretty bad.

[uponit7771]

42. +1

[bigwillq]

11. He'll still get 50 million votes

nation wide in Nov.

[agent46]

13. yep

the fix is in

[bigwillq]

15. That doesn't mean I think he'll win

McCain got close to 60 mill and lost

[agent46]

20. that's encouraging to remember

I'm less optimistic though. I don't think Obama will get the same support he did in 2008 and I'm very suspicious of a rigged election attempt.

[bigwillq]

22. Obama will likley not get same support

But it will likely not be close enough to steal. That's my guess. But we shall see.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

24. Exactly.

Are Americans magically less dumb now that Obama is in office? People really seem to have very short memories.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. “Every Town Counts”,....Romney's supporters,....on one hand....

[pacalo]

25. Every hotel counts, too:

By the way, if you think that Mitt and Ann Romney were slumming it on the bus every night, think again. At the end of each day, they boarded a jet and flew to the next stop and stayed in a nice, comfy hotel.

Taxpayers with no loopholes would have to pay for his lavish expectations if he became president. Sleeping on the bus would have shown some character.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

30. If it worked for a teabagger with a pickup truck...

Why not an asshole with a bus?

[Auntie Bush]

17. Who in the world in their right mind would want to stand around and listen to that boring man lie

through his teeth? I'm surprised anyone's there.

[Cali_Democrat]

18. Look at the crowd....

No comment:

[Arugula Latte]

21. It's a very diverse crowd!

Their hair ranges from blond to gray to bald and their skin ranges from translucent to very white.

[lpbk2713]

23. Amazing. Someone should call the Guiness World Book people.

I've never seen this many angry constipated white people in one central location before.

[MADem]

37. Someone oughta check the crowd pics, to see if they're busing in a load of those folks, too!

It'd be funny if it were the same three hundred people at every stop...!

[lpbk2713]

39. Some were caught doing just that in the last GE.

The same people were photographed disrupting town hall meetings hundreds of miles apart.

[Aerows]

19. Mitt Romney

Connecting with the people's inner nausea, time and time again.

[pacalo]

26. Remember these articles if Romney "wins" the election.

With a little over four months to go, he hasn't had a huge crowd yet.

Obama's rallies consistently have huge crowds.

[rocktivity]

27. Well, let's be fair -- it's only his home state

rocktivity

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

28. Only 400 people attend R-Money campaign stops, but the Corporate Media wants us to believe

that R-Money is winning or close to beating Obama in Michigan? Really?

[Chiyo-chichi]

31. Don't you people "Believe in America"?!

Saw Dave Matthews this weekend, who has a new song that says:

We gotta do much more than believe if we really wanna change things
We gotta do much more than believe if we wanna see the world change

[tclambert]

32. Does Rmoney ever truly ride in that bus? Or does he just show up in places where it stops?

I'm picturing it this way: He flies a private jet (his own or one borrowed from Koch Industries) to an airport near his scheduled appearance, then rides in a limousine to rendezvous with the campaign bus a block away from the official venue, and at the final destination he smiles and waves as he strides manfully down the steps of the bus, which he has only ridden on for about 100 yards.

[MrScorpio]

33. Those are the parts of this state where he SHOULD be popular...

This is a fail on his Romney's part of epic proportions

[ecstatic]

34. I hope Joe Williams is no longer suspended...

Unless Romney can prove that he feels comfortable talking in front of diverse crowds...

During an appearance on MSNBC Thursday, Williams suggested that the Republican presidential candidate seems the most unscripted and at ease on the "Fox & Friends" show because he is more comfortable around white people.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-joewilliamsbre85o045-20120624,0,3089397.story

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

38. I'm stunned - Mitt Smarmney is the perfect Republican candidate.

I mean how much more smarmy do Republicans want him to be? He's doing the best he can.

[Pathwalker]

41. The people of Dewitt, Mi. are rightfully called DE-WIDIOTS!

And for VERY good reasons! They see their THREE traffic lights as year round Xmas lights, and nothing more. Those stop signs are just lollipops that greet you at an intersection, certainly no reason to stop. Roundabouts are a place to get lost in for at least 15 minutes. They have no clue what turn signals are for, surely not for signalling your intention to turn, and the Bird is their way of greeting everyone.
The De-WIDIOTS live in Armaggedonville subdivisions behind 12 ft. high berms, with armed guards at their single entrances. I tell ya, Mittens fit right in.

[auntAgonist]

43. I find your post quite offensive. I have family in DeWitt MI and we live close by.

There is no love for Mittens in this camp.

[JNelson6563]

44. Don't be offended, your people are probably a minority there.

The smart minority.

We're a minority here in the Traverse City region too but our numbers are growing, slowly but surely. I think it's mostly smart people relocating here (so many visit and want to stay!), but whatever it is, I have good reason to hope we'll soon have the majority here.

Hope springs eternal.

Julie

Edited to add: Here in TC they seem to forget that the green light means "go". They are such bad drivers that they are gradually putting in the little green arrow lights for left turn lanes so no judgement is required, just go when you're told (but fucking go already!). Mostly breed them big and dumb up here. Rush has a huge audience and Ron Paul is popular. *sigh* Lots of pockets of dumb in MI. Mittens hit a few and ignored anything north of mid-mitten. Otherwise he'd've been here for sure ~ and actually gotten a huge crowd too! Glad his team's too stupid to get that.

[auntAgonist]

45. Thank you Julie.

[Pathwalker]

46. Sorry you're offended, but I stand by my words. I have lived

in this area for more than 30 years now. BOTH Dewitts - you know there's two, right? - are red enclaves in the deeply red Clinton county. We've had to replace our mailboxes 6 times because when we've put up yard signs for Democratic candidates, they shred the signs, leaving the mess, then they smash the mailbox and destroy the landscaping.
Regarding the Stop signs, I was hit and badly injured by a driver who ignored a stop sign, a mile from my home. Two people were recently killed at the stop sign just down the street from us, so they made it a four way stop. One more has been killed since then by someone who ran the Stop sign. One more death, and they'll put up a blinker light. UP the street, half a mile away, they had the same problem, and now they have a four way stop. One more death and THEY get a blinker light, too.
And just last week, that person who got lost in the roundabout - that was my Republican neighbor.
I have dealt with both the City and the Township officials throughout the years - ALL Republicans. They don't elect Democrats in Dewitt - either of them. Not once in the 30+ years I've lived here. They might not love Mittens, but they HATE Obama.

PS: I learned the word De-widiot from a State Treasury worker more than 20 years ago - it's a very old joke known to many here. Don't mean to offend, but I state the truth as I have known it.