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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trump distributed 20,000 tickets on the Internet for venue that holds 1,400 people.  So much for private sector organizational skills.[/quote]

I think you underestimate the campaign (and I'm no supporter of his). They were giving away free tickets and announced it was first-come, first-serve, acknowledging that not everyone with a ticket would be able to get in. This accomplished two things. First, it increased the likelihood of a full house. Free tickets have a notoriously low turnout rate for most events, so giving out only 1,400, or even 2,000, would pretty much guarantee a lot of empty seats. Since they were questioning people at the door about whether they were Trump supporters before letting them in, they needed that much bigger a distribution so that they could turn people away and still fill seats. Second, it increased the odds of long lines and big crowds outside the venue, which is where a lot of the press pictures would be taken. Trump cares less about everyone getting in to hear him than he does about the perception that he is very popular and in-demand.[/quote]

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