Thursday, October 30, 2008
A difference, yes; but what a difference!
McClatchy takes a look at what sets the Obama campaign apart from the Old Fart's. Numbers would be the easiest way to put it. You have seen the pictures, now read about it.
As the Obama motorcade gets within two or three miles, it starts passing people walking, carrying Obama posters, wearing Obama sweatshirts. Walking from their cars, which they had to park far, far away.And even their transportation is a matter of numbers.
From about a block away, the lines of people waiting to get in through the metal detectors become visible. Sometimes hundreds, often thousands.
Once at the rally, the crowds are huge. In recent days, Obama drew 10,000 to a park in Leesburg; 35,000 to a park in downtown Indianapolis, 100,000 in Denver.
It's starkly different on the McCain bus.
On a recent visit to Kettering, Ohio, for example, the McCain motorcade was within a block of a local campus rally before there was any outward sign a presidential campaign was arriving.
Inside, maybe 2,000 supporters waited, but dozens and dozens and dozens of seats stood empty, and remained empty. At an outdoor rally that evening in Lancaster, about 2,000 attended. Behind them, a wide open field.
Obama has a 757Numbers aren't everything, but there is one that matters, your vote. If you can vote early, get out there and get it done. It you have to wait for Tuesday, don't you dare forget. And if you think a line to vote is inconvenient, think about what 8 years of George W Bush was.
McCain has a 737
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