Ten-thousand. That’s the number of flyers Simon-Pierre Diamond had left at about noon Saturday.

They were stacked and spread out on a table at the back of his campaign headquarters in Ste-Julie.

Diamond was the youngest member of the ADQ elected last March. He’s one of almost a dozen ADQ candidates under 30. One of the 5 who are under 25.

Diamond will need that youthful energy – he said he would distribute them all over the next two days.

But why so many in the first place?

“Ha, ha, ha, I ordered way too many,” laughs Diamond. “I had ordered 25-thousand, it was a big campaign, we’ve already handed out 15-thousand. Ask me tonight how it went!”

There are other numbers to talk about in this end-of-campaign blitz.

Fifty-five, 70, 34, 40, 50, 33, 400 and a 150 (who were at the local arena in St-Gédéon-de-Beauce for an evening of line dancing.)

That’s the person-count for each of the eight ridings Mario Dumont visited Saturday.

That’s a boost in attendance compared to the first day of Dumont’s second ‘final swing.'

The last two events drew hundreds of people brandishing those inflatable disposable noise-making batons.

It must have felt good to have people shouting and clapping after another day of quickly stepping into campaign headquarters some of us have started referring to as ‘closets.’

In these tight spaces, there is also increased, how shall I put it, ‘interaction’ between his supporters and the journalists covering his campaign.

Several times in the last few days people have commented to reporters that they don’t think the ADQ is being fairly treated by the media.

“Do you ever end up writing good reports on the ADQ?” one woman asked me. She said it wasn’t an accusation, but it’s hard not to interpret it that way.

I mentioned that we’d been hearing a lot of people grumbling about coverage in the last few days.

“As long as they’re neutral and fair,” she said.

I asked a colleague if he’d been hearing the same thing.

A veteran political reporter, he said it happens when people are frustrated at the end of a campaign that isn’t going the way they want.