The Estimates of Joe Biden’s Crowd Size for Jeff Visit Are Greatly Exaggerated

The Courier-Journal’s Lesley Stedman gives an optimistic estimate:

“The guys supposedly wearing the striped shirts, the referees, were in fact asleep at the switch, not looking out for us at all,” Biden told a crowd of about 2,300 supporters at Warden Park in downtown Jeffersonville.

The crowd count given by WHAS 11 was considerably less:

Biden scrapped a speech he had prepared for the event near the Ohio River for one about the ongoing crisis in the American economy. Biden spoke to a crowd of about 600 people for around 30 minutes.

Wave 3’s estimate seems to be even less:

Biden drew applause Wednesday from the crowd of several hundred people as he said the troubles on Wall Street had exposed “the failed philosophy of the last eight years.”

A Democrat friend of mine who attended the event told me that there were “probably a couple hundred” people present.

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Eyeballing the photos provided by the Courier-Journal on their website (which include wide shots of the crowd from a variety of camera angles) would seem to indicate a crowd of a couple (or several) hundred. Six hundred would be an optimistic estimate; there were certainly not a thousand people present, let alone thousands or twenty-three hundred.

But hey, if a little massaging of the numbers by the media feeds the narrative and helps the cause, it’s okay, right?