I Love the Smell of Desperation in the Morning Evening.

Is Drudge really pushing this?
















He links to this article, which pushes the 60k figure, but Jonathan Martin suggests this is nonsense:

Exactly how many voters Palin, making her first campaign trek to the Sunshine State, had in The Villages is uncertain.

Mike Tucker, a local fire marshal, estimated 60,000. But reporters on the ground, including AP's Brendan Farrington and my colleague Ken Vogel, would only say "tens of thousands," suggesting the marshal's estimate was on the high side. The St. Pete Times's Adam Smith had another fire official in the crowd say it was about 25,000.

Uh huh. Maybe The Decemberists were in town?

...Further proof the figure is bullshit? Jim Hoft has creamed himself. Ew.