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Obama campaign says it will fill football stadium for convention’s finale
The Hill ^ | 09/01/2012 | Amie Parnes

Posted on 09/01/2012 7:31:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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.

“Our goal is to leave North Carolina better than we came in,” Psaki added.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: campaign; convention; dnc; northcarolina; obama
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To: SeekAndFind

Just having ALL the PUBLIC UNION members, (WE PAY THEIR SALARIES AND PENSIONS AND HEALTH CARE), will fill the stadium!!! Just count the BUSSES because they can’t figure out how to get someplace unless someone gets them on a bus......Rallies, Church, and Voting.


101 posted on 09/02/2012 3:25:59 AM PDT by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Last I heard, they were giving away tickets in bars. Maybe they are offering free beer. Isn’t it sad for Obama when filling a football stadium becomes something that he strives for and brags about. How the worm has turned in four years time!


102 posted on 09/02/2012 3:54:01 AM PDT by onevoter
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To: eeriegeno

Are they bringing prisoners in? ;-)


103 posted on 09/02/2012 4:04:43 AM PDT by Average Al (The Democrat party is a free range zoo.)
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To: Average Al

Well, they were giving free tickets away in a couple of bars, one in Atlanta and one in Macon, GA. If I had to guess, that trend was probably being repeated elsewhere.


104 posted on 09/02/2012 4:14:32 AM PDT by meyer (It's 1860 all over again - the taxpayer is the new "N" word)
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To: SeekAndFind

Free tee shirts and hats, free lunch, free posters, free gas money for thier cars, free rent, everyone attending will be paid under the table with an assortment of free stuff. Praise the lord!


105 posted on 09/02/2012 4:32:50 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (bb)
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To: skr
"Spoken for and filled are entirely two different things."

That was my exact first thought. I read that they've been handing them (tickets) out in bars, au gratin. ;)

106 posted on 09/02/2012 4:56:00 AM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: SeekAndFind

107 posted on 09/02/2012 5:09:33 AM PDT by Evil Slayer (Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war....)
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To: meyer

Getting free tickets in a bar and driving 375 miles one way to sit out in the rain to listen to a blow hard you see every day on tv are two different things. :-)


108 posted on 09/02/2012 5:11:32 AM PDT by Average Al (The Democrat party is a free range zoo.)
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To: UCANSEE2

I predict empty chairs, and plenty of them.


109 posted on 09/02/2012 5:12:44 AM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: Average Al

250 miles one way


110 posted on 09/02/2012 5:16:58 AM PDT by Average Al (The Democrat party is a free range zoo.)
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To: GoldwaterChick

Lol


111 posted on 09/02/2012 5:47:55 AM PDT by erod (This Chicagoan will crawl over broken glass to vote the fake Chicagoan Obama out!)
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To: doug from upland
Thursday, September 6 (Bank of America Stadium) Foo Fighters Mary J. Blige Earth, Wind and Fire James Taylor Delta Rae Inspire the Fire Marc Anthony (national anthem))

Besides Earth, Wind, and Fire that sounds like a horrible lineup you couldn't pay me to skip work for that.

112 posted on 09/02/2012 5:55:28 AM PDT by erod (This Chicagoan will crawl over broken glass to vote the fake Chicagoan Obama out!)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Need workers for DNC events (Charlotte)
http://charlotte.craigslist.org/evg/3244720333.html


113 posted on 09/02/2012 6:13:53 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind
Looks like the buses will be running en masse eh? LOL.... I wonder how much that will cost us tax-payers?
Well at least the homeless will have a nice seat to sit in for a few hours eh?
Dear leader is doing so much for them. HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA ....
114 posted on 09/02/2012 7:09:49 AM PDT by Whats-wrong-with-the-truth
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To: erod

Actually Mary J. Blige can actually sing and has a hell of a voice.

And EW&F’s “Fantasy” was one of my “romancing” songs back in my wild college days........


115 posted on 09/02/2012 11:13:29 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (I need a good stiff drink. How 'bout you?)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Just wanted to bump this thread back to the top. We can laugh about how confident O-hole was about filling 74,000 seats.


116 posted on 09/04/2012 2:06:27 PM PDT by Big Giant Head
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