The overflow crowd at Jacksonville's Metropolitan Park -- capacity 13,000 -- ate it up. The energy was notable because though Democrats outnumber Republicans in Duval County, it is a reliable area for the GOP. George Bush got nearly 1 ½ times more votes than John Kerry in 2004. McCain could barely muster 3,000 when he spoke nearby on Monday.
A strongly black area, Jacksonville buoyed Obama in the Democratic primary, giving him nearly 50 percent of the votes to Hillary Clinton's 33 percent -- the exact opposite of the final numbers for the entire state. Obama played to the crowd, quoting Marin Luther King and subtly recalling a Malcolm X speech by telling the crowd not to be ''hoodwinked'' and ``bamboozled.''
Crowd counts, however, aren't as good a measure as political polls. And a message trailed behind a plane circling overhead underscored what early polls indicate: ``Florida is McCain & Palin Country.''
OF COURSE, you have to read a little bit between the lines because, crowd counts were what was all the buzz.
YOU SEE, Palin on the same day had a little rally. 60,000 people came out.
"Sa-Rah! Sa-Rah!" they chanted at every mention of her name, applauding loudly and waiving tiny American flags that were distributed -- along with free water bottles -- by local volunteers. The fire chief estimated the crowd at 60,000.
Admiring throngs mobbed the Palin family's arrival and departure, snapping souvenir pictures. Autograph seekers thrust campaign signs, caps with the McCain-Palin logo and copies of magazines with her face on their covers, and the Palins responded warmly.
OH, you didn't see that on CNN or MSNBC? Where are the crowd pictures on the front of the NYT? I mean when Obamessiah has a crowd you get plenty of him and the adoring masses.
It's simple. The MSM really wants to marginalized the energy in this campaign that is Sarah Palin. The polls are narrowing. Obama is playing catch up. Oh, I see the poll numbers. Iowa is swinging back to Obamanation again. They always seem to vote against their best interest.
It's just fascinating to watch the bias in media coverage. I smell real fear among the sycophants. It looks to me that they see Obama snatching defeat from the Jaws of Victory and want him to stop NOW. I'm hoping he keeps on reaching for that defeat mode.
Go Sarah and that guy.
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