Ride Right Through them: Half Full Edition

One of the things I’ve been say­ing over and over again is the actual evi­dence of Obama’s elec­tion prospects:

A NYT reporter at an Obama event this week tweeted out the following

Just to clar­ify, tix *started* at $51. Obama cam­paign sez event was sold out, but room is about half full. Hmmm.

— jodikan­tor (@jodikantor) August 12, 2012

Politico imme­di­ately went into the full pre­vent defense:

But the crowd for the after­noon fundraiser at the Bridge­port Art Cen­ter totaled 1,000, an Obama cam­paign offi­cial said – more than the 850-​person esti­mate the cam­paign offered ear­lier in the week­end. Tick­ets for the Gen44 fundraiser, tar­geted at younger sup­port­ers, started at $51, but many were more expensive.

And, to this reporter and sev­eral oth­ers in the White House press pool, the room seemed plenty full. There was empty space at the back of the large loft space dur­ing and imme­di­ately after the president’s remarks, but the crowd was densely packed to get close to the stage at the front of the room where Obama spoke.

The prob­lem for Politico and the left is we all remem­ber the crowds for Obama 4 years ago. If you are argu­ing over half full vs “plenty full” both of them mean some­thing dif­fer­ent from “Full” or “Over­flow­ing” Thus Tom Maguire’s quip:

some say the glass is half empty but I say it’s a spec­i­men cup.

Mean­while lets look at the turnout for the lat­est Rom­ney Rally in NC a state the Pres­i­dent won:

One pic­ture is the front of the line, one pic­ture kinda the back, EXCEPT my cam­era can’t cap­ture two and a half blocks of people.

and it was big­ger in Wis­con­sin:

Anne is at the Romney-​Ryan rally in Wauke­sha. She says the crowd is so large they had to move the rally from indoors to out­doors to accom­mo­date all the people.

We’re still try­ing to con­firm the crowd size esti­mate. (Cam­paign says 10,000, which is sim­i­lar to what Anne was told.)

Take a look at that line, you would think it was Chick-​Fil-​A on a Wednesday.

Stacy McCain was at Man­as­sas and the men from Mass­a­chu­setts & Wis­con­sin got more of the same:

How big was the crowd? Huge. Enor­mous. Gigan­tic. It was dif­fi­cult to get an esti­mate because the audi­ence attend­ing the rally over­flowed the pavil­ion (which has an offi­cial capac­ity of 1,000) and filled the sur­round­ing plaza. Lines to get into the venue cir­cled around sev­eral blocks and, when Rom­ney and Ryan arrived, there were still hun­dreds wait­ing to get through the metal detec­tors. Susan Fer­re­chio of the Wash­ing­ton Exam­iner, who rode into town on the press bus, shot a photo of the crowd lin­ing the streets of Man­as­sas that prompted the paper’s edi­to­r­ial page edi­tor Mark Tap­scott to muse that the polls must be wrong: “How to explain such crowds if Obama is lead­ing in Vir­ginia, one of the key swing states?”

Clearly these two North­ern­ers won this third bat­tle of Bull Run.

This is the dif­fer­ence between a cam­paign that is win­ning and a cam­paign that is los­ing. Last time around Obama drew huge crowds and McCain didn’t match until the Palin pick. This time around with the Ryan Pick Rom­ney is get­ting the over­flow­ing crowds while the Obama media tries to argue the dif­fer­ence between a “half full” and “mostly full”

This was also so pre­dictable, as Bill Whit­tle told us just after the 2008 elec­tion:

On Tues­day, the Left – armed with the most attrac­tive, elo­quent, young, hip and charis­matic can­di­date I have seen with my adult eyes, a can­di­date shielded by a media so overtly that it can never be such a shield again, who appeared after eight years of an his­tor­i­cally unpop­u­lar Pres­i­dent, in the midst of two unde­fended wars and at the time of the worst finan­cial cri­sis since the Depres­sion and whose praises were sung by every movie, tele­vi­sion and musi­cal icon with­out pause or chal­lenge for 20 months… who ran against the old­est nom­i­nee in the country’s his­tory, against a cam­paign rent with inter­nal dis­ar­ray and deter­mined not to attack in the one area where attack could have suc­ceeded, and who was out-​spent no less than seven-​to-​one in a cycle where not a sin­gle debate ques­tion was unfa­vor­able to his oppo­nent – that his­toric vic­tory, that per­fect storm of opportunity…

Yielded a result of 53%

Folks, we are going to lick these peo­ple out of their boots.

Or as I would put it:

“Ride right through them, they’re demor­al­ized as hell”!

Guys it’s going to be geo­met­ri­cally more dif­fi­cult for the media to con­vince the pub­lic and the left that this isn’t hap­pen­ing. The inevitable end result?

Update: The PJ Media link was dead so used the NRO version.