Obama Campaign Was ‘Trawling for Warm Bodies’ to Fill Half-Empty Kick-Off Rally

By Daniel Halper
Published August 20, 2012 5:19pm ET
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Obama Campaign Was ‘Trawling for Warm Bodies’ to Fill Half-Empty Kick-Off Rally
President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign paid nearly $93k to hold a kick-off event at the Ohio State University in May. And, at the time, photos of the event showed large sections of the arena unoccupied, causing the New York Times to write that the kick-off event “had the feeling of a concert by an aging […]

President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign paid nearly $93k to hold a kick-off event at the Ohio State University in May. And, at the time, photos of the event showed large sections of the arena unoccupied, causing the New York Times to write that the kick-off event “had the feeling of a concert by an aging rock star.”

A new ebook published today by Glenn Thrush explains that the empty seats that marred the expensive kick-off event were not because the Obama campaign did not try to fill them:

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