Think that's bad ... in Ohio the other day, the McCain campaign bussed in ~4,000 grade school students to fill up the crowd of ~6500.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/1..._n_139300.html
And to add insult to injury, that was the rally in which Joe the Plumber wasn't there yet, and thus McCain was relegated to calling all the school students Joe the Plumber.
And to digress a bit - a campaign that relies so much on some guy known as Joe the Plumber, who isn't really named Joe, isn't even a licensed plumber, doesn't have $250K, let alone enough to even pay his taxes ... is in despiration mode.
Ron