We've read a lot about McCane's assurances this morning that our economic variables continue to be strong despite the news everyone else is reading about Wall Street. Too bad so few folks were at McCain's rally in Jacksonville to hear his optimism.
This from HuffPost:
Republican presidential nominee addressed a crowd of roughly 3,000 people in a stadium that seats 16,000.
That's right, only 3,000 people in the house.
Need evidence:
More empty photos here.
(By comparison, Sally Palin had 6,000 at her campaign stop.)
But don't worry, there is a perfectly good explanation, and the McCain camp is not worried. In fact, they are doing a little trash talking.
Via Politico:
"Scoreboard check," said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds. "They're hurting in Florida - our attendance on a Monday morning is better off than Barack Obama's empty rhetoric and absent record - that won't deliver change."
Huh? People are hurting in FLA so they what? They can't make a rally to support their favorite prune? And is trooper Tucker really trying - desperately - to compare the well-being of the people who actually did show up to McCane's event with Obama's rhetoric? I'm kinda lost.
But then again, I got lost when Tucker tried to remember a single decision Sally Palin had made for the Alaska National Guard. He is truly the Administrator of Truth for the McCain posse.