A funny thing happened at a campaign rally Obama attended yesterday – audience members got up and left while he was speaking! And these weren’t just average Americans fed up with the president, these were hardcore Democrats at an event for Maryland Lieutenant Governor Anthony Brown held just outside DC!
President Barack Obama made a rare appearance on the campaign trail on Sunday with a rally to support the Democratic candidate for governor in Maryland, but early departures of crowd members while he spoke underscored his continuing unpopularity. …
A steady stream of people walked out of the auditorium while he spoke, however, and a heckler interrupted his remarks.
Press live tweeting the rally reported it first:
Good number of people are leaving this @BrownforMD rally in the middle of Obama's speech
— Katie Zezima (@katiezez) October 19, 2014
Steady stream of people leaving Maryland rally continues as Obama speaks. It's noticeable and noisy. They would have waited hours to get in.
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) October 19, 2014
Pool: "by the time [Obama] was about 10 minutes in, there was a traffic jam next to the pool's tables as folks tried to exit the gym. "
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 19, 2014
The media covering the event were shocked:
RT @jeffmason1: @ZekeJMiller lots of folks leaving the rally with Obama at the stage. It's weird.
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) October 19, 2014
After waiting a long time for a POTUS speech, don't you want to hear the whole thing? And not just take a phone pic or two and then leave?
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 19, 2014
Reporters tweeted photos of audience members leaving:
They got their iPhone photos, now they're streaming out: the 2014 Obama campaign rally story pic.twitter.com/gCbq6G7mjr
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 19, 2014
Empty bleachers – all of these people left after Obama started speaking at a campaign rally in Maryland pic.twitter.com/xdYvwhp2K9
— Katie Zezima (@katiezez) October 19, 2014
H/T: Twitchy
Democrats were trying to spin it saying that the people who left were from an overflow room where Obama had spoken earlier, except with the pictures and tweets that story doesn’t hold up:
@ErinatTheSun @LewisYv the people who were leaving were in the main room, not the overflow, so this doens't make sense
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) October 20, 2014
H/T: Quinton Report
This does not bode well for Obama and Democrats on November 4th – but don’t forget to get out and vote!
