Well here's a perfect symbol of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign: he's giving a speech on tax cuts for the wealthy today at the state-of-the-art 65,000 seat Ford Field ... but there's going to be 63,800 empty seats. After ditching three earlier plans to try to make the field look crowded, this (via Mark Halperin) is what they've come up with:
And yes, that's a teleprompter on the stage. I guess he needs to read from a script, even though the script is for him to offer an economic plan—giving the top one percent an even bigger tax cut—as empty as the stadium.