Big crowds at rallies does not equal big turnout on election day
I keep hearing Ron Paul supporters say that the media is conspiring against him because they aren’t covering his events in which he draws huge crowds at his speeches. Seriously? That is the defining criteria? I guess they must be conspiring against Sarah Palin too. Here she is drawing over 10,000 people to one of her speeches.

I suspect it is more likely because the media does not care to spend large amounts of money covering a candidate who they truly do not believe is going to win. I bet they would prefer to concentrate their efforts covering a person who has a good chance of being the next president of the United States. Like any other business concern, they don’t want to throw their money down a drain for no good reason.
I think they understand, as I do, that the number of people who go to a rally to hear someone speak doesn’t have anything to do with the number of people who will vote for that candidate once they get into the privacy of the polling booth.
The main reason for that is that the people who are most likely to go to the polls and vote are the people who are least likely to go stand out in the hot sun at some political rally; the elderly, the gainfully employed, and other sober and thoughtful people who have better things to do with their time than to stand around all day waiting for someone to come out and speak for a few minutes.
Statistics show that the people who are least likely to show up and vote on election day are the young, the unemployed, the uneducated, those who struggle with substance abuse and those with mental/emotional disorder issues. These are the very people, however, who will show up in large numbers at such events as rock concerts, anti-war protests, Occupy Wall Street rallies, and Ron Paul campaign events.
In other words, most of the people in those large crowd photos won’t show up to vote. The election will be decided by the “silent majority” who stay at work or stay at home when the rallies come to town, but who show up at the polling booths when election day rolls around.
Any questions?














