Deep in the red state of Idaho, Al Gore was scheduled to speak in at Boise State University, offering the keynote address to a conference on climate change.

The school gave away all 1,000 tickets to the venue in ten minutes, leaving almost 1,000 more people waiting in line. Oops!

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OK, so they moved the speech to the campus basketball arena, which holds more than 10,000 people.

Those tickets sold out in less than five hours.

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(via Red State Rebel at dKos)