We have a Democrat in the Govs office so I would presume that any state worker who values his or her job was in attendance. That alone could account for several thousand.
This kind of turnout worries me. Has GW ever drawn that many? 10,000 is the most I've heard. Of course it could be just the reporting, duh.
I saw some *long faces* in the TV coverage of the crowd, as if they were ordered to be there, or else.
Last month, I was at the Expo Center/ York Fairgrounds in York, for W's rally, and there wasn't a frown in the crowd of 10,000+.