He had like a monitor infront of his face the whole time showing what is streamed live so he can see how he looks, so yeah he did know it. During a commercial he came over to the cardboard sign, said "Thats my Candidate" and signed it.
Just got back from hardball
Whew that was fun. I see we got lots of air time :). at 11 when we had that perfect shot of the two revolution signs, the producer stole them like halfway through! he said they were "ruining the shot". Ruining? or making better?