Thursday, Novemeber 2nd. Chicago, Illinois. The Vice President draws a crowd of over 51,000 for a weekday rally.

I became one with my complete and total geek-ositude by shouting "FUZZY MATH!!" at the Vice President on cue. If that doesn't get me on Smirk's list, I don't know what will.

This is the Gore rally I attended in Westwood Village (part of Los Angeles) California, on Halloween. I asked several policemen after the rally for a crowd estimate, but they didn't have one. I haven't seen a crowd estimate anywhere in the media. That "Californians Adore Gore" sign in the background is about one Los Angeles sized block (that's two blocks in any other city) away from the stage. There is at least another Los Angeles sized block full of people off to the Vice President's left. I'm not sure how far back the crowd went in either direction, because I couldn't see over the other folks. I asked a gentleman who was about six four if he could see where the crowd ended, and he couldn't.

I stood in the middle of this crushing mob for eight hours, just to listen to the Vice President speak for less than 15 minutes.

Most people only stood in the middle of this crushing mob for four or five hours, just to hear the Vice President speak for less than 15 minutes.

You can get a good idea of the size of the crowd and how enthusiastic we were by listening to us chant, cheer and boo Republicans during the Vice President's speech. If you have RealPlayer audio, Windows Media audio, Quicktime Audio or mp3 audio, you can hear the rally at algore.com.

(Unfortunately, this link does not contain such atmospheric indicators as Whoopi Goldberg explaining to the crowd's delight that, although George W. Bush likes to claim he is a Washington outsider, "he wasn't outside shit". Or Rob Reiner leading the crowd in an enthusiastic high school cheer of "When I say 'Al', you say 'Gore'! Say 'Al'!" To which the crowd roared "'GORE!!!'" "Say 'Al'!!" "' GORE!!!!'" "Say 'Al'!!!" "' GORE!!!!!'" "Say 'Al'!!!!" "' GORE!!!!!!'" "When I say 'Al', you say 'Gore'! This back and forth went on for a good amount of time, with us Real People having a blast, waving our blue Gore/Lieberman signs around like we were supporting a candidate that we wanted passionately to elect because we think he will be one of the all time great Presidents, rather than some looser we were barely putting up with voting for just because he was the idiot with a "D" after his name.)

No wonder the Democrats can't afford commercials in California! Look at all the blue signs they have to hand out! For free!!

These Real People are from Scranton, Pennsylvannia, another highly volatile swing state, with little or no support for Gore, where Smirk is gaining ground every second.

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