Crowd Measuring Contest
My social feeds are full of people claiming that Trump’s campaign is imploding. That Kamala’s got the biggest crowds ever. That Vance has weird interactions with people.
But the one thing that I keep seeing over and over again is crowd size claims.
I’ve been aware of crowd size estimates since Glenn Beck held his tea-party rally back in the 00s. People were showing overhead shots and then doing counts.
The numbers reported by the right were much larger than the number reported by the left. Taking them from the same images.
Then there were the images from Watt’s Mommy’s Demand group. For years, it looked like they had massive crowds outside the NRA annual meeting.
Then we were able to see photos from gun owners. The crowds were staged to look very dense, but there were barely a 100 people there.
Before Kamala was installed, the media was constantly going on about how Trump’s crowds weren’t really that big.
We would see photos seeming to show a rally half full. Then we would find out that the images were taken before Trump got there or after he left.
Once Kamala was installed, suddenly the left was much more concerned with crowd sizes. They started to post images of the Kamala crowds with all their joy and excitement of getting to vote for a person who has received zero votes.
Then I started to notice something, the images, and videos posted by Kamala’s people didn’t have the numbers that her team was claiming.
“Look at this massive line of people to greet the annotated one!”. And there is maybe a block of people, barely 2 people deep.
As a child, I watched Nixon’s inauguration parade. It was January in D.C. It was cold. My brother and I were bundled up in our winter coats. There were people lining both sides of the street, shoved up on one another 4 or 5 people deep. All to get a glimpse of our new President.
That isn’t what I am seeing in the Kamala videos, posted by her people.
Here is my point, the right is poking fun at Kamala’s crowd sizes based on her videos and images. The left has to take their videos and images that are of questionable integrity to attempt to show small crowds at Trump events.