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Obama campaign says it will fill football stadium for convention’s finale
The Hill ^ | September 1, 2012 | Amie Parnes

Posted on 09/02/2012 2:44:21 PM PDT by cruise_missile

Team Obama promises it will fill every one of the seats in Charlotte’s mammoth football stadium Thursday night when President Obama closes the Democratic National Convention with a speech accepting his party’s nomination.

For weeks, Democrats have been concerned about filling Bank of America Stadium, home to the NFL’s Carolina Panthers. They feared a devastating image of an enthusiasm gap if Obama spoke to empty upper decks at the venue.

But the Obama campaign says it’s got it covered, and that all 73,778 of the stadium’s seats will be spoken for. The campaign also insists this success will showcase a ground operation that will help Obama win North Carolina for a second cycle in a row this November.

“We’re confident we’ll be full,” Jen Psaki, the traveling Obama press secretary, told The Hill late last week. “We have a great ground operation in North Carolina and we’ve registered more voters than any other state.

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TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: convention; democrats; obama; stadium
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To: Moose4

Maybe God will join in with a lightning strike or two... right in front of TOTUS.


41 posted on 09/02/2012 4:44:35 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
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To: cruise_missile

Maybe they can bring in prisoners from the Angola Prison in Louisiana. They are used to picking up garbage after disasters.


42 posted on 09/02/2012 4:51:19 PM PDT by txrefugee
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To: SoFloFreeper

Pray for beautiful weather, empty seats, and no excuses for the MSM


43 posted on 09/02/2012 4:59:24 PM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Hold My Beer and Watch This!)
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To: cizinec
Hitler did something similar in Nuremberg.

If you remember, the 2008 backdrop for the Democratic convention was designed after ancient Pergamum.

44 posted on 09/02/2012 5:00:26 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord!)
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To: paddles

The standard Rent-a-Mob.


45 posted on 09/02/2012 5:06:09 PM PDT by Postman (........................................................I'm thinking!)
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To: cruise_missile

I wonder how much that is going to cost us.


46 posted on 09/02/2012 5:14:44 PM PDT by RedwM
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To: Moose4

I like the way you think.


47 posted on 09/02/2012 5:23:21 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: GloriaJane

How many bottles of booze and cartons of cigs will the DNC have to buy?


48 posted on 09/02/2012 5:34:16 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: HenpeckedCon

I have the michigan frog song as a ringtone.


49 posted on 09/02/2012 6:40:08 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: cruise_missile

I recommend that the RNC Secret Agent club make copies of the letters that the DNC has been sending out about this event being held at the Panther Stadium. Add to this a convenient map to Franklin, NC where the real Panther Stadium exists.

The stadium in Charlotte, NC is the Bank of America Stadium WHERE the Carolina Panthers play their home games. Thus the DNC starts their final run to the Presidency with a LIE! What a surprise!


50 posted on 09/02/2012 6:40:47 PM PDT by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existence!)
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To: nagdt

You’ll know unions have been there en masse if you see piles of trash afterward, especially of catered cardboard lunch boxes, drink bottles, and pre-printed signs.

If any Freepers are in the area, I hope they hang around and take photos of union members roving around town shopping and whooping it up elsewhere rather than being inside the convention. They should also take photos of the scores of buses pulling in and out of the arena area.


51 posted on 09/02/2012 6:41:07 PM PDT by randita (Paul Ryan is "Mr. Smith goes to Washington.")
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To: Stand Watch Listen

Thats awesome.


52 posted on 09/02/2012 6:42:11 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: cruise_missile
Bread and circuses.

Or worse, these are democrats...


53 posted on 09/02/2012 6:42:31 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: cruise_missile
Obama campaign says it will fill football stadium for convention’s finale

Even if he has to bus in unionized Federal employees from every large 'Rat-infested city on the Eastern seaboard! While on the taxpayer's timeclock. Wonder how much that comes to?
And Chicago, of course...

54 posted on 09/02/2012 7:05:45 PM PDT by publius911 (Formerly Publius 6961, formerly jennsdad)
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To: cruise_missile

The attendees will all look marvelous chained together one to the next.


55 posted on 09/02/2012 7:06:59 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (Conservatism is not a matter of convenience.)
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To: Stealth Ninja

Free beer and rock bands; just like in Germany. Paid attendance will be maybe 10%.


56 posted on 09/02/2012 7:15:56 PM PDT by Stealth Ninja
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To: nagdt

yep! or how many welfare recipients that also get PAID to come. A stadium chock full of losers.


57 posted on 09/02/2012 8:02:28 PM PDT by BrianE ("Dead at 25 buried at 65 the average American" - Benjamin Franklin 1776)
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To: cruise_missile
With CGI, create an Obama version of the Nazi rally in Nuremburg, Germany, at Zeppelinfeld. Do it in color and have the Obama logo replace the Nazi swastika in the German Reich Alder [eagle] and the front of the podium. Superimpose Obama for Hitler bloviating to the faithful imaginary CGI Donkeys. Show it on PBS and the Left would have a cow . . . or maybe not. The Left can identify with a strong man like Hitler and his cult of personality.
58 posted on 09/03/2012 12:05:08 AM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: Stand Watch Listen

what is this from?


59 posted on 09/03/2012 12:06:28 AM PDT by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
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To: Taffini
what is this from?

Two companies "Inflatable Crowd" and 'Crowd in a Box' provide these blow up torsos (dressed, 3-D masks) to fill out crowd scenes for numerous movies/commercials.

60 posted on 09/03/2012 12:58:04 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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