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​So, pretend I'm the jury pool consultant. Pretend ace white-collar criminal lawyer Billy Ravkind hired me to advise him on the mood and mindset of potential jurors in the eventual and inevitable federal corruption trial of his client, Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price, currently the target of a metastasizing FBI investigation. Imagine for a moment that I am pondering the outcome of last Saturday's "nationwide" daylong rally in support of the embattled commissioner. In an entire day, between 20 and 30 people showed up from the nation to express their support for Price. In all the TV shots I saw, the rally was entirely desolate. There was no one there. Not a soul. Our Leslie Minora, who covered it, said most of those who did show up only arrived toward the end of the day. If I'm the jury consultant trying to gauge Price's public support, I have to look at this in context. The crowd at Price's rally would have been disappointing for a retirement party. He was hoping for Tahrir Square.