Also see: AOL "spam proof" Straw Poll
Guess who is winning on the Republican side!
And this is a strange article by the New York Times.
RON PAUL PACKS' EM IN!!!!
"In New Hampshire, Oh, Those Empty Seats" by MARK LEIBOVICH
MANCHESTER, N.H. — It would be wrong to read too deeply into a few empty seats at a few campaign events in the days leading up to Christmas. Oh, but let’s do it anyway.
Empty seats are, after all, poison to a candidate, inviting the press to describe an appearance as, gulp, “sparsely attended,” which might in turn signal that a campaign (double gulp) “lacks momentum.”
One of the truly sad visages of this presidential campaign was an Associated Press photo of then-candidate Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, speaking in a room jam-packed with empty chairs in Manchester. Mr. Brownback soon downgraded himself to “former candidate.”
In the days before Christmas, dreaded empty seats (“D.E.S.’s”) pocked the New Hampshire political landscape. Former Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York played to about 60 people and 10 empties at a tiny town hall in Hopkinton on Saturday, his first public event after returning from an illness that required a hospital stay.
The day before, an aide to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York was seen frantically folding up seats shortly before Mrs. Clinton arrived for a small gathering at a store in Concord.
That night, Mitt Romney and his wife spoke in an American Legion hall in Rochester that included several unused chairs, which were eventually removed. (It could have been worse; the crowd seemed positively Brownbackian about 15 minutes before Mr. Romney arrived.)
Mr. Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, stood before his audience and marveled at the incredible turnout there of about 90 people.
Mr. Romney declared (correctly): “It’s Friday night! You all should be out shopping!”
Using a GREEN CARD, right?
For what it’s worth, Senator Barack Obama drew about 400 to the same hall the night before, and in a heavy snowstorm.
Not that Mr. Obama received a unanimously warm reception in Rochester. The Illinois Democrat was admonished by a voter for allegedly giving short shrift to a woman and her son who had asked him for a photo during a visit to Dover earlier this year.
The woman: “You said, ‘make it quick.' I like you, but that comment really surprised me.”
Mr. Obama parried, allowing that he might not have seen the child, or that he might have been distracted:
“I spend more quality time with every single voter than just about anybody out there.”
Except for RON PAUL, Barak!
And what is with the excuses?
Bet he would have had time for AIPAC!
