(Robyn Beck/AFP/Gety Images)McCain crowds have grown enormously since Sen. John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be his running mate.
Previously, crowds averaged about 1,000. But since Palin's pick, the smallest crowd for a McCain rally was about 5,000. Estimates of last weekend's Colorado Springs rally ranged from 11,000 to 30,000.
The "Palin Factor" has greatly boosted McCain's crowds and GOP enthusiasm.
Besides Palin, the campaign has also included actor Robert Duvall, adding more star power to the campaign.
From Jill Zuckman:
Robert Duvall and his wife, Luciana Pedraza, were the opening act for Sen. John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin, at the Albuquerque Convention Center this evening.
Walking on stage, Duvall, the star of the "Godfather," shouted out, "Somebody give me an amen!"
The crowd, numbering in the thousands, shouted "amen" back at Duvall.
"My friend, Wilford Brimley, the old cowboy actor you may know, told me, 'Bobby, when you sit down and talk with this man, he will sit down and listen to you with no agenda,' " Duvall said, adding that Brimley told him when McCain "was in North Vietnam in the prison camps, they tried to kill him and he wouldn't let them."
From ABC News:
Actor Robert Duvall claimed to have known about Palin all along. At the New Mexico event, he was on hand to cheer on the new political couple.
"About a year ago I first saw this wonderful woman speak," the veteran of "Lonesome Dove" and the "Godfather" movies said. "I didn't know who it was. And I said who is this woman? And a year later, I said to myself about three or four weeks ago, why isn't she up for the vice presidency?"
Glad to see that Hollywood conservatives haven't gone extinct.
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