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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Crowd-getters in the Final Days: Massachusetts
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Date: Mon, 5-Nov-84 09:42:45 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  5 09:42:45 1984
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Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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Whoa!  I goofed!  The turnout for Reagan's Thursday appearance in Boston\was
estimated at 25-30,000, not 6,000 as I'd reported.  The latter figure was
the estimate for number of hecklers!  (The 11/2/84 Boston Globe reported
police estimated hecklers at 5000 while a number of reporters put the figure
considerably higher.)  So people the GOP bused in from NH, RI, & Cape Cod
represented only 1/4 (7500) of supporters.

But Mondale-Kerry, with 80-100,000 outdrew Reagan-Shamie 3 or 4 to 1, had
no hecklers, let anyone attend, & organized no massive busing effort.

				"Even the perfect make mistakes"
						-Vince Lombardi

				Ron Rizzo