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underpants

(182,834 posts)
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 07:59 PM Oct 2012

"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

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"hundreds" at the Obama rally in Richmond VA today (Richmond Times-Dispatch) (Original Post) underpants Oct 2012 OP
Uh.....that looks like a lot more than "hundreds" of people! eom Th1onein Oct 2012 #1
Well, technically, there is at least 200, so it is hundreds... Mass Oct 2012 #2
Richmond Times Dispatch Needs LETTERS TO THE EDITOR! Cha Oct 2012 #3
I Stopped Counting At 235. SingleSeatBiggerMeat Oct 2012 #4
Our local paper - Howdy Neighbor underpants! ItsTheMediaStupid Oct 2012 #5
Hey I think we will be hosting again on the last weekend underpants Oct 2012 #6
Just a guess: 15,000 people? flamingdem Oct 2012 #7
Did a search flamingdem Oct 2012 #8
"his once comfortable lead in Virginia in doubt" Proud Liberal Dem Oct 2012 #9
One hundred fifty hundred. Lex Oct 2012 #10
Colin Powell is going to help nudge of few more "hundred" into the Obama camp in VA. SleeplessinSoCal Oct 2012 #11

Cha

(297,323 posts)
3. Richmond Times Dispatch Needs LETTERS TO THE EDITOR!
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 08:14 PM
Oct 2012

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.

ItsTheMediaStupid

(2,800 posts)
5. Our local paper - Howdy Neighbor underpants!
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 08:32 PM
Oct 2012

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)
6. Hey I think we will be hosting again on the last weekend
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 08:40 PM
Oct 2012

call the Kaine office or DU mail me and I will give you our guy's name and number.

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
8. Did a search
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 08:45 PM
Oct 2012

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)
9. "his once comfortable lead in Virginia in doubt"
Thu Oct 25, 2012, 08:55 PM
Oct 2012

I'm sorry but which campaign looks/seems more desperate right now?


BTW where are the pics of the Romney crowds?????

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