Wait… Where have we heard this before?
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#MOWSS attendance figures for #DNC2012 under 1000, not the predicted “thousands”
Yesterday here in Charlotte was the big “March on Wall Street South” protest, which organizers, the media, and law enforcement were predicting/expecting between 2,000 and 10,000 would attend to air their grievances against the “Wall Street of the South” (Charlotte). And because the Tampa protests at the RNC were pretty much a bust due to the weather, people were speculating demonstrators would make up for lost time on Sunday. The base of the march was at Frazier Park in uptown, and as I watched live streams of the park yesterday on CSPAN, it became clear to me that this event would see nowhere near the numbers people were anticipating (and hoping for, in the case of leftists and their allies in the national press). To my admittedly untrained eye, there were “hundreds”, not “thousands” … and as it turns out, I wasn’t far off the mark:
#OccupyCLT sets up tent city blocks from #DNC2012, say they have police permission
In overnight developments related to the DNC, the Charlotte Observer’s Cleve Wootson reports that Occupy Charlotte – which used to be based on the grounds of Old City Hall until the city beefed up anti-camping ordinances earlier this year, effectively ending the camping – is back in business and has set up camp at Marshall Park uptown:
(Video) Mitt Romney vs. The Incredible Shrinking President
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#GOP2012 final night: Get ready for Gingrich, Rubio, Eastwood and – of course – Romney
It’s the last night – the biggest one of the GOP Convention, where Mitt Romney will formally accept the Republican nomination for President. Here’s tonight’s line-up of speakers: