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The crowd of about 500 felt small in the sun-blasted auditorium at Town Hall, which holds more than twice that many. I expected to see row upon row of cane-shaking elderly people in cowboy boots lining the pews. Though there was a little bit of that, the crowd was a mix of ages, and there were not zero people of color (though I'd be surprised if there were a dozen). After the rally, however, a woman in the lobby did a bit of freelance demography: “Here’s your crowd recap: There’s no waiting in the ladies' room, and a line out the door for the men’s.”