Road to The White House: Did Romney’s Campaign Artificially Increase His Support at Univision Forum?

According to website Buzzfeed.com, Romney’s presidential campaign may have bussed in supporters from south Florida to the University of Miami to give the illusion of enthusiastic support at a Univision/Facebook-hosted “Meet the Candidates” forum.

According to the site, “the Romney camp realized there weren’t enough sympathetic students to fill the stands on their night — so they told the network and university that if they weren’t given an exemption to the students-only rule, they might have to ‘reschedule.'”

This stood in contrast to President Obama’s reception at the forum, where he was greeted with stone-cold silence and less-than-enthusiastic support. But this may have been because of this added outside support, according to Buzzfeed.

“Both candidates had partisan crowds at their forums, but that Romney’s non-student activists ignored instructions to hold their applause,” according to Maria Elena Salinas, a Univision anchor who moderated the debate.