PSA: Be careful with the DNC crowd size clickbait!
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Yet it's not packed. That means the space is full. The stadium is sectioned off and looks to be around 2/3 rds or less of maximum capacity. Just like a concert where attendance isn't projected to fill the entire available capacity. Optics are that the event is packed because the utilized total capacity has been reduced.
Quick check, the United Center has a capacity of 23,500. 2/3rds of that is 15,510. Optics look like packed but that isn't much of a turn out for what should be a "yuge" event during the greatest theat to our "democracy" election year.
Also some perspective: the DNC is smack in the middle of the most dense shit-lib areas in the country, while the RNC was also in a liberal area (Milwaukee WI)
From wikipedia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee
Milwaukee has been a Democratic stronghold for more than a century at the federal level.[169] At the local level, Socialists often won the mayorship and (for briefer periods) other city and county offices during much of the first sixty years of the 20th century. The city is split between seven State Senate districts, each of which is divided between three state Assembly districts. All but four state legislators representing the city are Democrats; the four Republicans—two in the State Assembly and two in the State Senate—represent outer portions of the city that are part of districts dominated by heavily Republican suburban counties. In 2008, Barack Obama won Milwaukee with 77% of the vote.