See Swann: First Peek Inside Invesco [Update]
By SusanUnPC on August 28, 2008 at 10:32 AM in Current Affairs
UPDATE: From Politico.com’s “Dems nervous over Invesco risks“, via Memeorandum.com:
Senior Democratic officials are expressing serious concerns about the political risks posed by Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium Thursday evening.
From the elaborate stagecraft to the teeming crowd of 80,000 cheering partisans, the vagaries of the weather to the unpredictable audience reaction, the optics surrounding the stadium event have heightened worries that the Obama campaign is engaging in a high-risk endeavor in an uncontrollable environment. …
Hot Air has a great insight into the choice of location:
It turns out that the event serves a higher purpose — fundraising:
The campaign noted that, aside from the speech itself, it’s designed to be “a working event” that enables attendees to phone bank and reach out to potential voters through a variety of online tools. Holding the speech in a venue that holds 80,000 people also allows tens of thousands of Colorado residents to attend and participate — no small consideration since Colorado is a battleground state where Obama and McCain are neck and neck in the polls.
“Phone bank” means primarily “raising money”. Even as a rally, though, the event is rather meaningless, made so by the bait-and-switch by Team Obama on the “free” tickets. In order to get the “free” tickets, applicants had to volunteer for the campaign, two hours per ticket. That turned this into a co-op, not an open rally where numbers matter. And if Obama can’t find 80,000 supporters in Denver, then he’s in pretty bad shape anyway.
Obama needs the speech as a direct fundraiser in other ways as well. He’s already hit up major contributors for million-dollar luxury suites and thousand-dollar VIP seating. His campaign broke a pledge to eschew PACs and lobbyists in order to wring every last cent out of this speech. Obama can’t simply cancel this and move it back to the Pepsi Center; it would cost him millions of dollars.
Swann’s video is now below the fold:
This guy is a scream. Thanks to Hampster for sending me this video.
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