Thousands of empty seats at Barack Obama's last campaign rally of the midterm elections on Sunday highlighted the decline in his popularity and the potential meltdown facing the Democrats at the polls on Tuesday. In Cleveland about 8,000 people turned out to see Obama in the 13,000-capacity stadium, compared with the 80,000 at a rally in the city two days before the 2008 election.
Speaking in Cleveland at the end of a whirlwind four-state tour, Obama said it was an important election. “We have the chance to set the direction of this country for many years to come,” he said. He warned that the Republicans could roll back all the progress of the last two years if they won big.
He admitted it was “a difficult election” because of the state of the economy, and blamed the Republicans for creating the federal deficit — a theme he has repeated throughout the campaign but one that has failed to resonate with the electorate.
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