On May 5, Obama opened his campaign to a half empty stadium. Last month, he spent 2.6 million on polling, hoping to discover a winning strategy for the last three months of the campaign season.

Update:  after spending 56 billion bucks in the month of June,  alone,  to beat back Mitt Romney,  Obama came up 2 points short on Rasmussen.  Understand that this man no longer has a campaign strategy;  he is just thrashing about as if the campaign body was dead and in the last stage of a nervous repose. 

It's a campaign faux pas to hold an event in a room that isn't full; to promise the media a more-than-capacity crowd then fall this far short of that promise is utter incompetence.  In 2008, Obama ran a near-flawless campaign, buoyed by enthusiasm and effective organizing.  But it's not 2008 any more, and on day one of the 2012 campaign, Team Obama has already made an embarrassing blunder . . . Breitbart.com.

Editor's note:  we agree.  The lower deck was not filled. The upper deck was completely empty.    The Obama people,  slicksters that they are,  moved people out of the stands onto the floor,  in an effort to deceive the national television audience.  In the end,  the truth came out . . . .  between 10,000 and 12,000 were present including stadium employees,  law enforcement, hundreds of media types and SEIU workers bused in for special effects.  "They" were touting an over-flow audience of between 20,000 and 24,000 people. Half that number showed up or were bused in.  

And this was "opening day:"  for the Obama campaign,  May 5, 2012. . . . . . . .  a PR nightmare.   Keep in mind that this event was held on the University of Ohio's campus.  It was young adults who did not show up and in record numbers.  


Update:  after spending 56 billion bucks in the month of June,  alone,  to beat back Mitt Romney,  Obama came up 2 points short.  Understand that this man no longer has a campaign strategy;  he is just thrashing about as if the campaign body was dead and in the last stage of a nervous repose.