In the final day leading up to the general election, where polls open early tomorrow morning, both Senators John McCain and Barack Obama began their final push of an aggressive campaign that has spanned several states in the past 72 hours.

McCain kicked off the final campaigning day this morning in Tampa, Florida, where he was greeted by a crowd of roughly 1,000 supporters. Nothing seems wrong with this picture, until it is given some perspective. There was just something missing this morning at the rally – and that missing component was the crowd. Expecting a crowd ten times the size that showed up, the McCain campaign has to be feeling worrisome.

Even FOX News correspondent Carl Cameron couldn’t muster up a way to spin the surprisingly small crowd, saying:

“Last night in Miami Sen. McCain arrived for a midnight rally and had more than 10,000 people in Miami. Today in Tampa, for a morning event, it’s a small crowd, only about 1,000. And I can tell you is it looks like it was set up with the perimeter and all for about 10 times this crowd. In addition, you’ll note that there are no actual McCain signs here…They believe that their 72-hour get-out-the-vote exercise will make the difference,” [Cameron] said. “That is one of the reasons why the size of this crowd is a little bit disturbing for the McCain campaign.”

These small crowds are not anything new to the McCain campaign either, and unfortunately for them, time is running out. Reports are trickling in of diminishing support and weakening public opinion. Signs of small crowds should be the beginning of warning signs for the McCain campaign that John’s second big for the White House is coming to an end.

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