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Dept. of Enthusiasm Gaps: New Mexico Edition
Both John McCain and Barack Obama campaigned in Albuquerque today.
Who: John and Cindy McCain
Where: Expo New Mexico (state fairgrounds);
Attendance:1500
Time of visit: Noon
Weather: Bright, sunny warm day.
Who: Barack Obama
Where: University of New Mexico's Johnson Field:
Attendance: 35,000 inside and 10,000 to 15,000 outside
Time of visit: 9 p.m.
Weather: cool evening.
Enthusiasm gap duly noted.
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Thanks for posting! A wonderfully uplifting bit of news to read while I ice my arthritic knee after another day of canvassing.
October 26, 2008 3:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
I'm with you on the knee. I'm using an NSAID. And prayer.... :)
October 26, 2008 10:33 AM | Reply | Permalink
before the events started, I was channel flipping and I caught someone on FOX NEWS predicting that McCain would have 1,000 and that Obama would have 25,000. I was shocked that the crowd was actuallu over 45,000!! Actually I shouldn't be...it's Obama.
October 26, 2008 9:34 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sometimes it's the smallest facts that make the biggest dif!
Thanks for this. :)
October 26, 2008 10:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
I guess that helps explains some of the crazies at McCain's functions. These crowds are cream-of-Republican soup.
October 26, 2008 11:17 AM | Reply | Permalink
Condensed.
October 26, 2008 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
I heard on MSNBC the McCain campaign was expecting 3000. Getting a little ambitious there, aren't we John?
October 26, 2008 11:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for this - that's a hell of a gap. And it does my heart good to know about it.
October 26, 2008 12:25 PM | Reply | Permalink
This is good. I hope it represents the voter turnout in NM.
October 26, 2008 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Not to cherry pick too much, but that gap should be topped off with the arrest, indictment, prosecution, and imprisonment of Pat Rogers and his hired heavy/fellow thug.
October 26, 2008 6:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unbelievable! That's my home town, although I've lived in Chicago thirty years and haven't visited in ten. NM as a whole usually went Democratic, but Albuquerque used to be about evenly split. It's a university town, but also has an Air Force base and a major defense research laboratory, and the traditionally Democratic-voting Spanish population is balanced by Anglos of Texan/C&W persuasion. This means the Republicans are losing big and know it.
October 26, 2008 9:21 PM | Reply | Permalink