It makes fans of Hillary Clinton very anxious every time I state this simple fact: attendance at the Democratic candidate's rallies is mediocre at best.
The pictures have told the story over the past six months. Republican Donald Trump is filling convention centres, airport hangars and parks. Clinton, on the other hand, is filling community centres and small colleges, but just barely.
The people campaigning for her - the rock stars of the Democratic Party like First Lady Michelle Obama, President Barack Obama and Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders - have bigger and more energetic crowds.
Moreover, as Clinton goes into the final weekend of campaigning, she is drawing on mega-celebrities to attract people to her cause by holding separate events with musicians Pharrell Williams, Jay Z and Katy Perry.
There was a momentary spike this past week in Tempe, Arizona where, aside from July's Democratic National Convention, she had one of her biggest rallies yet.
More than 10,000 people attended an event where she went solo. But you could chalk that up to the fact a Democratic presidential nominee in Arizona is rare. Unlike Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, New Hampshire and other battleground states, Arizonans aren't bombarded with campaign stops....
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