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From: jpg@sdchema.UUCP (Jerry Greenberg)
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Subject: Re: Crowd-getters in the Final Days: Massachusetts
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Date: Sat, 3-Nov-84 14:42:55 EST
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>  It turns out the "crowd" of 6000 was predominantly made up of people
>  brought in to Boston on some 150 buses from more conservative New
>  Hampshire, Rhode Island, & Cape Cod, organized apparently by the
>  GOP.  Not only must Reagan keep the "people" he represents literally
>  at a distance, but phoney crowds of supporters must be painstakingly
>  assembled to fill the few public places (whose access must be restrict-
>  ed) in which Ronnie is willing to appear.

>  By contrast, Walter Mondale appeared today at a huge rally on the
>  Boston Common at which 80,000-100,000 people turned out; no hecklers
>  or protesters were anywhere in evidence.


    Oh, of course. Liberal demonstrations are as spontaneous as the
    expansion of a gas into a vacuum.



    Jerry Greenberg