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About 8,000 people attended the Democratic National Committee’s Moving America Forward’ rally at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center, a hall where the capacity is 13,000. The rafters were largely empty. Organizers noted the president was competing on a Sunday afternoon with church, football and Halloween.
President Barack Obama tried to pump up Democrats Sunday in an indoor arena that was described as about half full, according to a New York Times report. Just 8,000 people attended the Democratic National Committee’s "Moving America Forward" Ohio rally at Cleveland State University’s Wolstein Center — where the capacity is 13,000.
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Obama ... DUDE ... (Jon Stewart style) ... the party is over.
Tying the vote to nostalgia and obligation, black pastors invoked the civil rights movement and Obama's historic 2008 victory. At Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta - the spiritual home of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. - the Rev. Raphael G. Warnock warned attendees that not voting would be nothing short of a sin.
"Go to the polls Tuesday in the name of our ancestors," Warnock said to cheering listeners who rose to their feet. "Know that your ballot is a blood-stained ballot. This is a sacred obligation
So God, football and candy beat out hearing Obamas rhetoric