I wrote about it last week. PolitickerNJ's Wally Edge warned about it yesterday. And this morning, Harry Hurley, South Jersey's most influential talk radio host, says he received "more than a hundred emails from angry Eagles fans" who didn't make it to Philadelphia's Lincoln Financial Field in time to see what he labeled "perhaps the finest half of Eagles football in the Andy Reid era" -- and it's a safe bet that for every email Harry received, there were another 100 angry fans who didn't email.
Their gripe? Barack Obama's final-weekend visit to Camden to shore up the faltering campaign of Democrat Gov. Jon Corzine.
The Obama motorcade shut down the Walt Whitman Bridge -- the principal artery between South Jersey and Philadelphia -- and sections of Interstate 42 yesterday afternoon, long in advance of Obama's scheduled 12:55 PM arrival at the Philadelphia airport.
Consequently, thousands -- who knows, tens of thousands? -- of Jersey-based Eagles (and Giants) fans weren't in their seats in the stadium when, on the third play from scrimmage, with just 1:25 gone in the game, the Eagles scored their first touchdown. And most of them still hadn't gotten to their seats two minutes later, when the Eagles scored their second touchdown, after an interception and a runback to the Giants' 10 yard line.
The Eagles had 13 points on the board before there were four minutes gone in the game -- and before those thousands of fans had even arrived at the stadium, thanks to the Obama motorcade.
Most of them, in fact, hadn't been seated by halftime, by which point the Eagles were up by a score of 30-7.
And just how many Camden Democrats were there in the Susquehanna Bank Center for Obama to fire up? According to Corzine's staff, it was but a paltry 6,500 -- and if the Corzine staff is spinning there were 6,500, it's a good bet there were really only a few thousand in attendance.
That's likely far, far fewer than the number of Eagles and Giants fans stranded by Obama's motorcade.
Of such trivial-but-not-insignificant are close elections won ... and lost.
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