Posted on 08/29/2012 3:21:07 PM PDT by Zakeet
The crowds may be smaller and the candidate grayer, but college towns are still proving to be President Barack Obama's best shot at enthusiastic audiences.
More than 26,000 people combined showed up to hear the president speak during his three-state college town tour this week, which ended Wednesday with a rally near the University of Virginia.
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... even some of those who went through heavy security to see Obama speak said their enthusiasm had waned.
"It no longer has the distinctiveness that it used to have," said William Proffitt, a University of Virginia student. "That was amazing, seeing the first African-American president elected, but that died off within a year."
In 2008, more than 100,000 people showed up to hear him speak in Denver. He spoke on the same trip at Colorado State University, where upwards of 50,000 people filled a quad in the center of campus. When Obama returned to Colorado State on Tuesday, the crowd totaled 13,000.
Obama's campaign dismisses the notion that the smaller crowds equal less enthusiasm for the president this time around. Aides suggest the numbers are purposely being kept low, citing the cost of holding larger events and the president's desire to travel to smaller cities in battleground states.
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So the headline could just as easily read:
Interest in Hearing Obama has Plummeted. or
Obama Generates Little Enthusiasm Among College Students. or
The Numbers Say Obama’s Campaign is Derailed.
What everyone should be asking is why is President Obysmal campaigning when there is this little disaster happening in New Orleans?
15 ... “haven’t lived long enough” ...
And the Gen Ys and Gen Zs have been thoroughly indoctrinated by educators that the white Republican party is the fountainhead of all evil in America.
Obviously he thinks it's OK to campaign while people who look like him are drowning. Sorry, just applying libtard logic.
“Aides suggest the numbers are purposely being kept low, citing the cost of holding larger events and the president’s desire to travel to smaller cities in battleground states.”
Absolute bullish*t. He’s plummeting.
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