Romney stages campaign event in virtually empty Detroit stadium - Polidicks

[quote] Mitt Romney ”unveiled” his economic plan — again — to about 1,200 members of the Detroit Economic Club this afternoon. For a speech about taxes, that’s a pretty good turnout. So good, in fact that the campaign had to find a bigger venue. Their solution? [URL="http://www.businessinsider.com/blackboard/ford"]Ford[/URL] Field Stadium, the 65,000-seat football arena. According to the [I][URL="http://www.freep.com/article/20120224/NEWS15/202240437"]Detroit Free Press[/URL][/I], the Romney campaign spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out how to make the stadium look full for television cameras: [I]About 100 news media representatives and 50 or so TV cameras will set up behind the guests, so that it will be clear Romney is speaking to a crowd….They scrapped three earlier plans: one to have Romney stand in the end zone, speaking up to guests seated in the stands; another to have him on the sidelines near midfield, speaking to guests seated in the stadium’s middle sections, and an initial plan to hold the event at the Westin Book Cadillac, which quickly became oversold.[/I] [I]Steve Grigorian, chief operating officer for the Economic Club, said the two earlier Ford Field plans were changed because camera angles would have made it appear there was no one in the stadium but Romney.[/I] Their plan worked — kinda. CSPAN coverage actually did not look too bad — the audience, made up mostly of men in suits and ties, filled the screen whenever the cameras panned back. But this is the 21st century. Reporters at the event immediately began tweeting photos that showed that Romney was, in fact, speaking to an empty stadium.[/quote] [url]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/02/24/romney-stages-campaign-event-in-virtually-empty-detroit-stadium/[/url] [img]http://www.rawstory.com/rs/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/mitt-romney-empty-stadium.jpg[/img]

its a speech limited to members of a specific club

Then why did he need such a massive stadium?

[QUOTE=JDER14;34871935]Then why did he need such a massive stadium?[/QUOTE] thats the joke (i just wanted to clarify that the stadium wasn't empty due to lack of popularity)

[QUOTE=JDER14;34871935]Then why did he need such a massive stadium?[/QUOTE] because republicans

what a waste [editline]25th February 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=JDER14;34871935]Then why did he need such a massive stadium?[/QUOTE] he had it planned for a car dealership, but that oversold pretty quickly somehow a football stadium seemed like a good substitute

Haha oh fucking god why am I laughing so much

There's so little people in that big stadium. It's like an american soccer game.

He only invited the white population of Detroit.

Woo hoo, Romney gives speech at baseball stadium. How is this news? Careful cinematography is used during every awards ceremony, speech, concert, etc to make the venue look full all the time...

I wonder if everybody brought their [url=http://www.longislandpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/flip.jpg]Mitts[/url]

[QUOTE=SPESSMEHREN;34872683]Woo hoo, Romney gives speech at baseball stadium. How is this news? Careful cinematography is used during every awards ceremony, speech, concert, etc to make the venue look full all the time...[/QUOTE] Football stadium, yes I like to correct people

[QUOTE=MeMassiveFag;34872719]Football stadium, yes I like to correct people[/QUOTE] You just [B]had [/B]to ruin my joke, didn't you? [sp]Actually it was pretty obvious that it was a football stadium[/sp]

[img]http://puu.sh/igAH[/img]

[QUOTE=Nikota;34874016][img]http://puu.sh/igAH[/img][/QUOTE] Well that's disingenuous.

[QUOTE=Ridge;34874176]Well that's disingenuous.[/QUOTE] We're discussing politics here. We're practically obligated to throw shit.

Typical republican with plenty of money to throw around.

[QUOTE=Jackald;34877571]Don't stoop to the level of your opponent.[/QUOTE] Problem is that their level is the only one that the general public understands.

[QUOTE=Van-man;34877680]Problem is that their level is the only one that the general public understands.[/QUOTE] Or the only level that politicians think the general public understands.

You know, if there had been any seats given away in the stands at least one person would be sitting in them.