Romney packed them in at Ford Field today. Seven or eight hundred of them.
Ford Field seats 70,000.
That's what the professional political advisors commonly refer to as a "gaffe".
You and I would call it a major fuck-up.
Mitt's unbounded hubris aside, I suppose it's a source of wonderment that he pulled in as many as he did. He's got a lot of nerve even showing his face in the Motor City.
After all, none of the front-runners went as far out of their way as Mitt did in proclaiming that the Big Three should be left to go down the drain back in the bail-out bonanza era.
The opinion at the think tank here at Falling Downs is that the car companies, at least the two that took bailout money, didn't actually need it. They saw an opening and went for it. Free money, and even more important, a chance to ditch their legal obligations to their pensioners and rip up their contracts with the UAW. Worked like a dream.
They're suddenly experiencing record profits.
So the bail-out, however fraudulent it may have been, is seen as a success in Michigan, and Romney is seen as a major party-pooper.
Which makes you wonder about the polling numbers released today. At least two seperate polls showed Romney leading in Michigan.
Eight hundred people at Ford Field showed something else.
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