Like LeBron James, Barack Obama is Mired in a Miami Funk

Submitted by Anonymous on June 14, 2011 - 9:14am

The Obama campaign, a supposedly well-oiled machine, sputtered Monday night in Miami.

Violating a cardinal rule of stage management, the campaign rented a 2,200-seat concert hall for a fund-raiser and couldn't even fill half the seats.

A spinning party official told Politico that 900 people had been expected, and 980 showed up. Oh.

Admission tickets started at $44.

Do the rough math, and the evening's take wasn't particularly impressive for a "gala" in Democrat-rich South Florida.

The half-empty house amply illustrated an earlier Wall Street Journal article detecting the sour mood of Democratic donors nationally.

So The One is on to Puerto Rico today. Maybe the reception will be better there.

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