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Post by Joe Cocker on Oct 24, 2012 10:03:42 GMT -5
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Post by Joe Cocker on Oct 24, 2012 10:11:47 GMT -5
Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan held a rally at Colorado’s legendary Red Rocks Amphitheater on Tuesday. The event drew an estimated 17,000 people, nearly 10,000 in the venue itself and over 7,000 turned away. The weather was good, people were excited, and even when they were unable to enter, a happy and friendly atmosphere kept many of them around, cheering for what they could hear and chanting when they could not.
The crowd was filled with people of all ages, ethnicities, races, and genders, college students, small business owners, parents, grandparents, Hispanics, Blacks, even people from Boulder. People carried signs, stickers, and cameras, and mingled and chatted, carrying the party atmosphere far beyond the gates and throughout the entrance line.
At one point, after most people had been standing in line for at least two hours, and when the possibilities of entering were diminishing, one person shouted “You better get used to this! This is health care 2020!” Hundreds of people laughed.
When the gates finally closed, people still made their way to the gate to see what was going on, and to try to hear Ryan and Romney’s speeches. A person working at the venue turned the volume up, and many people stood listening either to the speakers, or huddled around smart phones streaming live audio, with people they had never met.
Looking at photos and video and hearing the story of what happened in the rally show what a success it was, but it’s impossible to know the depth of the success, and the atmosphere in the crowd without hearing the story of what was happening just outside of the gates.
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Red Rocks, Red State
Examiner.com-52 minutes ago
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