2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum"hundreds" at the Obama rally in Richmond VA today (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2012/oct/25/37/tdmet01-carillon-hosts-obama-today-ar-2309747/10:05 p.m.
Within a half hour of the secured area opening for spectators this morning several hundred had gathered for President Obama's campaign stop at the Carillon.
UPDATE: 11 a.m.
Emergency medical service workers waded through the crowd of hundreds that jammed the secure area at the Carillon to help one person who fainted.
UPDATE: 1:30
President Barack Obama, speaking to a crowd of 15,000 people this afternoon at the Carillon in Richmond's Byrd Park, portrayed the coming election as a choice between moving forward and stepping backward.
Thanks to Kadie for the pics
Th1onein
(8,514 posts)Mass
(27,315 posts)Cha
(297,323 posts)Freaking mediawhores. The nyt downplayed almost a million coming out to protest bush's war on Iraq in 2003. I know because I was one of them and couldn't wait to read what the NYT had to report. I WAS CRUSHED.
SingleSeatBiggerMeat
(220 posts)So, technically, there were more than 235 people there.
ItsTheMediaStupid
(2,800 posts)Right wing slime rag, useful for baseball scores and lining the bird cage.
When I moved to Richmond a friend advised me, "Don't read the editorial page. It'll just piss you off."
He was a smart man.
underpants
(182,834 posts)call the Kaine office or DU mail me and I will give you our guy's name and number.
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)woo hoo!
flamingdem
(39,313 posts)In final stretch, Obama rallies 15000 in Richmond
NewsOK.com? - 5 hours ago
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) His once-comfortable lead in Virginia in doubt, President Barack Obama has made a plaintive and urgent appeal to ...
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,415 posts)I'm sorry but which campaign looks/seems more desperate right now?
BTW where are the pics of the Romney crowds?????
Lex
(34,108 posts)nt