Posted on 09/21/2008 5:59:43 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
not a great pic, but a pic nonetheless:
PIC: Saturday 21 Sept 2008: CNN: Palin’s Florida debut draws thousands
It may have been a wise choice, if only for the optics - on the same day Barack Obama drew over 20,000 voters to an outdoor rally in North Carolina, Palin attracted tens of thousands of her own sun-baked supporters.
Though the audience was one of the Palin’s largest to date, the actual size of the crowd was unclear. According Mike Tucker, the fire chief of The Villages who was made available to the press by the McCain campaign, 60,000 people crammed into the streets to see Palin speak.
“There were people down the side streets, people down in the parking areas, people who couldn’t quite make it around to the main areas,” Tucker said, adding that many people were let into the rally without tickets, making the crowd count impossible to verify...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/21/palins-florida-debut-draws-thousands/
what I recall is the traffic was jammed for miles leading to the venue. there was much live reporting about the massive numbers and the incredible excitement.
and then came this...
22 Sept 2008: NYT So McCain Would Like Cuomo for the S.E.C.? New York Politicians Chew It Over
By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE
In the last year, Andrew M. Cuomo, New York’s hard-driving and ambitious attorney general, has been mentioned as a possible future candidate for governor, senator and New York City mayor.
So it was with a mix of pride, affection and deftly sublimated envy that New York’s political elite chewed over the news on Monday that Senator John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee, thought that Mr. Cuomo would also do a pretty good job as chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission...
Mr. McCain’s suggestion of the S.E.C. post — made during a “60 Minutes” interview broadcast on Sunday — appeared to take everyone by surprise, including Mr. Cuomo. It came as Mr. McCain made several gestures toward bipartisan cooperation, including promises to include people from both parties in his cabinet...
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/nyregion/23cuomo.html
and then Sarah was pretty much shut out of the MSM and McCain behaved more like he was campaigning for Obama.
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