Common Dreams article: As Sanders draws 10k in Wisc, support for Revolution doubles in Iowa

[peacebird]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/07/02/sanders-draws-10000-wisconsin-support-revolution-doubles-iowa

Speaking to largest crowd any campaign for president has yet seen, the field's most progressive candidate says "a grassroots movement of millions of people" must overcome power of "handful of wealthy campaign contributors."

Such turnouts are becoming a trend for the candidate who has stepped forth from the left side of the political spectrum to challenge Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic nomination. As MSNBC notes, Sanders has been attracting outsize crowds nearly everywhere he goes recently: "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 after the basketball arena where Sanders was speaking filled to capacity."

Wednesday's enormous turnout also arrives with good news for Sanders out of the key early-voting state of Iowa, where a new Quinnipiac poll released on Thursday morning shows his campaign continuing to close the gap with frontrunner Clinton. According to the survey, Sanders is now is receiving support from 33 percent of likely Democratic caucus participants compared to Clinton's 55 percent. That distance is remarkably smaller now than it was in early May when Clinton enjoyed a 45-percentage point advantage.

[HassleCat]

1. Want to get the money out of politics?

Vote for somebody who does not take dirty money.

Sanders is popular with people who care. I hope he's just as popular with people who vote.

[peacebird]

2. Have you heard pf the Stamp Stampede? Stamps are pay what you will right now!

http://www.stampstampede.org

[wendylaroux]

3. could it happen?

If Bernie can get the msm attention,and I don't mean the negative,he's a "Radical" candidate.

But be treated as an actual, viable candidate.

Who if the people could only learn his thoughts and ideas for actually HELPING the MAJORITY of AMERICANS,it could happen.

The internet helps ,with the younger crowd,but he needs msm for others.

We have the voters out there who would absolutely get behind him.

One would think the msm would see what a huge thing this could be,go with the actual story,and their ratings would be helped also.

This country has got to be turned around somehow,and it aint gonna happen with the same old,same old.

[LWolf]

4. His message is actually pretty simple,

and everything he's proposing are things I've been asking for, and wishing elected politicians would fight for, for decades now.

Simple. Support the 99%. Be human and humane. Care about people and the quality of their lives enough to fight for what we need.