{"id":15771,"date":"2012-05-07T16:43:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:43:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-05-07T16:43:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T16:43:32","slug":"obama_launches_campaign_to_empty_seats_unveils_ad_that_should_be_called_just_go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2012\/05\/07\/obama_launches_campaign_to_empty_seats_unveils_ad_that_should_be_called_just_go\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Launches Campaign to Empty Seats; Unveils Ad That Should be Called “Just Go”"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: “Barack Obama launched his campaign in unspectacular fashion today at Ohio State University, the largest college in the crucial swing state” of Ohio<\/a>. “A photo posted to twitter by Mitt Romney\u00c2\u2019s campaign spokesman Ryan Williams,” Ryan, not Brian. Ryan Williams. And the upper deck is empty. Twenty thousand people is the capacity, and I think there were just over 10,000 people there. “According to the Toledo Blade, the venue for Obama\u00c2\u2019s rally seats 20,000 but ‘there were a lot of empty seats.\u2019 Comparatively, Obama drew a crowd of 35,000 at Ohio State when he campaigned for former Governor Ted Strickland in 2010.”<\/p>\n

Two years ago, he drew 35,000. Now he barely draws 10,000 or 11,000! We\u2019ve got Axelrod on ABC yesterday basically running a campaign of hope and change. They\u2019re still running against Bush! And Obama has been reduced to saying, “Well, you may not be better off now than you were four years ago, but you will be in 10 or 15 if you stick with me. But if you go to Romney, if you go back to Bush, you\u2019re not gonna be better off in 10 or 15 years but you will be better off in 10 or 15 years with me.”<\/line><\/p>\n

They\u2019re stuck.<\/p>\n

You know, they moved the convention\u2019s final night to the football stadium in Charlotte because they thought they\u2019d be getting huge crowd — and donors. They want money. They want big bucks buying luxury boxes and all that stuff in the stadium for the final night where Obama accepts like they did in Denver in 2008. But he\u2019s not drawing the crowds. Now, again, it\u2019d be very risky to extrapolate that into votes. But what can be said is the enthusiasm for Obama personally, 65% like him personally…? Unh-uh. Not when 9,000 show up as empty seats at a rally where he\u2019s announcing his campaign. <\/p>\n

And how many people didn\u2019t know that he was gonna run again? (laughing)<\/p>\n

Anyway, I have to take a break. When we come back, we want to do something with the audio sound bites. This morning on Obama\u2019s website, BarackObama.com, they launched a new TV ad entitled “Go.” And it involves Brian Williams. By the way, have you noticed there are more campaign commercials for candidates — there have been some issues, but mainly for candidates — involving news people and things they\u2019ve said on the air that serve as an endorsement of sorts? <\/p>\n