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Don't Underestimate Bernie
MADISON, Wisconsin - "In case you haven't noticed, there are a lot of people here," Bernie Sanders said a bit awed as he took the stage in front of nearly 10,000 in a coliseum here.
Sanders has been attracting outsize crowds wherever he takes his unlikely presidential campaign. Five thousand came out for his kickoff rally in his hometown of Burlington, Vermont. Another 5,000 turned out in Denver, Colorado. In Minneapolis, a thousand listened from outside when the basketball arena where Sanders was speaking filled to capacity.
But Madison was different."Tonight we have made history," Sanders declared to thunderous applause. "Tonight we have more people at a meeting for a candidate for president of the United States than any other candidates have."
Indeed, Sanders - the self-declared Democratic-socialist from Vermont; the former perennial protest candidate; the man who until a few weeks ago belonged to neither party - turned out more people Wednesday night than has any candidate of either party so far this year.
Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton attracted 5,500 people, according to her campaign, to her kickoff rally in New York City, and 1,800 in Virginia last week but has otherwise not focused on large rallies. While Republican Sen. Ted Cruz had 11,000 for his launch at Liberty University, attendance was mandatory for the school's 13,000-strong student body, so it's unclear how many came of their own volition.
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Give 'em hell, Bernie!
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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And the media ignored him at first.
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florentine wrote:
And the media ignored him at first.
Good point.
What does it say about the media when they ignore a serious, sober statesman like Bernie Sanders, and shower attention on the carnival sideshow that is Donald Trump?
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Good point, florentine. Eventually the media won't be able to ignore the elephant in the room.
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Unless I'm missing something, Bernie is the only Dem candidate onthe trail trail right now. Hillary is MIA, and O'Malley and Chafee announced, and have done nothing since.
I still think when your mainstream democrat understands just how far left of center Bernie is, and meets the Hillary campaign bulldozer, he's going to have a tough go of it. But for now, he's talking about a lot of stuff we need to debate and discuss and that's always a good thing.
I would also remind Bernie supporters again that the Democratic party establishment will make considerable effort to keep him off the ballot, since he is a declared independent. It's already happening in New Hampshire
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Well, I've decided to join the fight for Sanders. I'm doing something I've never done before and that is changing my 'independent/unaffiliated' voting status to 'Democrat' just so I can vote in the primary for Bernie Sanders. After the primary, I'm switching back to independent.
The fact both teams intend to take shots at him and throw up roadblocks tells me they are starting to take him seriously.
I'll vote for Sanders and even though the cards may be stacked against him, for me personally, I feel I'm saving my soul.
P.S. Are you sure you have to be a Democrat to run on the D-Tribe ticket? I thought Bernie joined the D-Tribe party anyway.
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Well, I've decided to join the fight for Sanders. I'm doing something I've never done before and that is changing my 'independent/unaffiliated' voting status to 'Democrat' just so I can vote in the primary for Bernie Sanders. After the primary, I'm switching back to independent.
The fact both teams intend to take shots at him and throw up roadblocks tells me they are starting to take him seriously.
I'll vote for Sanders and even though the cards may be stacked against him, for me personally, I feel I'm saving my soul.
P.S. Are you sure you have to be a Democrat to run on the D-Tribe ticket? I thought Bernie joined the D-Tribe party anyway.
I believe Bernie just caucuses with them WITHOUT actually being a Democrat. That has been his problem apparently in some of the primary states.
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