If someone told me that 10,000 people attended ths convention, and that this was the same approximate number that had attended last year, I could through a procees of inductive reasoning told them that Sarah Palin did not attend the event. The reason is that she always draws crowds that are exponentially larger than they would otherwise be. This fact is becoming a sort of political law of physics.
There was a reason that she did not attend..but my mind has failed me again!