UPDATE: Crowd size estimated at 10,000:
The estimated 10,000 people packed around the Bandshell for Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on Friday night included Volusia County farmers, out-of-state bikers and families who drove for hours just to see the Republican ticket in person.
A consensus seems to be forming in the press about tonight’s crowd at the Romney-Ryan Rally in Daytona, Beach, Florida (no #s released yet):
Huge crowd for Romney and Ryan in Daytona Beach tonight
— (Washington Post) Felicia Sonmez (@feliciasonmez) October 20, 2012
Massive crowd for Romney and Ryan in Daytona Beach. twitter.com/shushwalshe/st…
— (ABC) Shushannah Walshe (@shushwalshe) October 20, 2012
And traveling press secretary Rick Gorka is doing some of my style of campaigning with a little trash talk:
Florida is Romney/Ryan country and it’s the next state Obama leaves. #romneyryan2012 instagr.am/p/Q_DH31sctr/
— Rick Gorka (@Rick_Gorka) October 20, 2012
// Even Romney himself is taking the cue:
Romney: “The Obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign… They keep talking about smaller and smaller things.”
— McKay Coppins (@mckaycoppins) October 20, 2012
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booyah!
Go Romney/Ryan! Thank you for posting this.
Holy moly!
I think the country is starting to realize that R squared is americas comeback team
It’s Bike Week in Daytona and most residents either hunker down or leave town. This is very telling.
Looking forward to seeing some numbers.. that looks huge!
OMG! Literally, OMG!
Nate Silver is whinning about Gallup in the NYT. He is wetting his pants.
He always seemed calm and collected when Obama was in charge, but when his candidate is falling apart it becomes freak out time. Carter wasn’t in this bad of shape in Gallup at this time in 1980 either. That’s why he’s freaking.
Just need to keep up the momentum and not get complacent. If we keep seeing the lefties freak, my guess is Democratic turnout will decrease and the GOP will stay strong and be able to pull out more tight downticket races.
Trying to put pressure on them to change their party ID. Simple.
Gallup is a major headache for them in terms of their desired narrative about 0bama’s inevitable victory. All these polls with +7 Rat samples like 2008. Sheesh, anyone remember 2008? Obama was regularly filling up stadiums, 100,000 + rallies, women were regularly feinting from the mere sight of his Greatness. To say that Obama still has that kind of kool-aid drinking enthusiasm this year?
Wow! It’s great to see these enormous crowds. About that Gallup poll that showed Romney up 7 yesterday and up 6 today. What are the internals? I was wondering if they were still oversampling democrats or not.
New Gravis Poll for Ohio out tomorrow to show 47-47 tie in Ohio…….
Family up there is certain that election turnout will favor Republicans in Ohio, so R+ something. Their feeling is that Romney is building momentum in the state and he’ll win by a comfortable margin of 3-5 points or better.
Reports here in Florida are the crowd was around 6800. That’s capacity for that area in Daytona Beach. My grandmother was at the rally and they had to turn away thousands.
Andrew Kaczynski@BuzzFeedAndrew Photo of the estimated crowd of 10K to see Mitt Romney in Daytona tonight. via Reuters http://twitpic.com/b5ohpn
Jeff you and predict are on it tonight. Keep up the great info!
Per dog I meant lol
New gravis national poll has Romney up 46-44 with D+8 in LV poll.
That’s a 2008 turnout model. Great news for Mitt! My gut tells me it’ll end up even for turnout when all is said and done – or R+ if a sense of Romney’s inevitable election is created that will depress Democratic turnout.
Congressman John Campbell was on Hugh Hewitt’s show tonight and shared a trend he’s seen in the last three polls he’s conducted in his district, polling 400 likelies in the district for his race and Romney. McCain won that district (southern Orange County, CA) by about 4.5%. His polling consistently shows Romney up by 19 in the district. And he has said he’s heard similar things from his colleague.
Remember that. Most all of the people in the House do district polling with 400-600 likely voters. Romney’s people likely get info from the Republican House members and they will have district info from 2008 as well. I’m sure Obama gets info from the Dem House members too.
But a nearly 15 point swing towards Romney from 2008 is huge, no matter which district it is.
RCP doesn’t include that in their averages, apparently. Strange, because PPP is okay with them?
Pity, would have kept Romney ahead in the average.
RCP is obviously bias in favor of BO. They will immediately post any left leaning polls with unrealistic models and skewed results while shunning any favorable poll for Romney that is not otherwise from a mainstream outfit.
RCP has no liberal bias. Just so you are aware they independently sought me out to publish some of my stuff on their site. And there is nothing liberal about what I write.
I noticed the same thing about RCP. They posted the Uconn poll today, but have ignored the upi poll. This is what put Obama ahead in the poll average.
Romney: “The Obama campaign has become the incredible shrinking campaign… They keep talking about smaller and smaller things.”
I’m really getting embarrassed to having voted for Obama in ’08. Seriously, he’s lowered himself to name-calling by changing a person’s name? Come on Barack, that’s the sort of thing we grow out of in Junior High.
My daughter and I were at Daytona Beach on Friday night. It was tremendous. I was please to see so many people. This has been my 3rd rally in Florida this year. What I want my daughter (she is 15) to learn is the difference between Freedom and Liberalism. One believes in the Individual while the other believes in the State. I HOPE enough adults in America can understand this as well.
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