Bernie Sanders' 'True Believers' Pack Boston Campaign Event

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Last edited Sat Oct 3, 2015, 11:58 PM - Edit history (2)

Bernie Sanders swept through Massachusetts Saturday, drawing large crowds in both Springfield and Boston.

More than 20,000 people came out to see him in Boston, filling the stadium floor at the Boston Exhibition and Convention Center. A few thousand did not fit inside but stayed in cold weather and watched the speech on screens in an overflow area outside

You guys are the true believers," Sanders said, addressing those in the dark outside who gave him a celebrity's welcome after his hour and half speech inside the arena.

"Thank you for freezing out here," he continued standing on a platform with a microphone and waving to the crowd over their cheers. "Were you able to see the speech?
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/bernie-sanders-true-believers-pack-boston-campaign-event/story?id=34230127



Sanders tells massive Boston crowd to look around room, "we have something they dont have...I don't need a super PAC@


This is the overflow crowd outside of Sanders' Boston event - they're waiting for him to come say hi
https://twitter.com/maryaliceparks


Over 20,000 Showed up to Feel The Bern in Boston
This story has been updated with info from Bernie’s official campaign.

Boston was Feeling The Bern today perhaps more than any other city Bernie Sanders has been to yet. Early estimates put the crowd inside at 26,000 plus jammed into the Boston Convention Center and another six to eight thousand in an overflow area that wish they’d shown up earlier. Bernie’s campaign however has come out with a figure that the crowd was over 20,000. So we’ll say the crowd was between 20K and 32K. Either way it’s still a whole lot of Berners.


http://thebernreport.com/over-20000-showed-up-to-feel-the-bern-in-boston/

[Pharaoh]

1. That is really fucking impressive!!!

Way to go Boston!!!!!

[rhett o rick]

2. I hate to be a wet blancket, but there is only one person there with glasses. How can you

claim it's a cross section of peoples?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

5. Wrong! There are at least two people there with glasses.

Thanks for yet another failed attempt to delegitimize the Bern!

[rhett o rick]

6. Contact lenses don't count. nm

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. They might if you were wearing them!

[rhett o rick]

9. Ok, ok, I conseed. Sen Sanders represents those that wear glasses and contacts, but only if you

wear two contacts. Those crazies that only wear one are weird. (My wife only wears one. )

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

10. Peace.

I thought that I would jest make a sow's ear out of my silk purse.

[rhett o rick]

11. You have a silk purse? Made in Viet Nam I bet. nm

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

14. By unapologetic socialist commie capitalists!

[Docreed2003]

30. Glad to know...

I wear glasses and contacts and support Bernie!!!

[rhett o rick]

36. Wow you are ambidextrous.

[Docreed2003]

40. Yeah well...

I wear glasses and contacts depending on the situation, lol.

[rhett o rick]

41. My wife only wears one contact.

[MannyGoldstein]

16. I was there as a Glassesed American

Although they're small-ish and half-framed, hard to spot perhaps, but not because I'm embarassed to be a Glassesed American.

[rhett o rick]

37. I kinda expected you'd be "half-framed".

[zeemike]

18. Look at how young they all are.

That explains the glasses gap...but shows the age gap. That will be the next meme...he can't attract old people.
Well except here on DU but that don't count.

[rhett o rick]

38. I think the "old peoples" are watching on closed circuit in the lounge.

That's where I'd be. Don't want to get my eye poked out with a Bernie sign.

[merrily]

26. Two with glasses in the OP for this thread; more in the OP for another thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/128058069


However, I think you are not seeing the forest for the trees here: the people wearing glasses were relegated to the outdoor overflow.

[rhett o rick]

39. You are correct, I can't see any forest but no trees either. Where's my glasses.

I can't see anything without my glasses of martini's.

[cpompilo]

3. Wow!!! My heart is warmed seeing all those young people! WIN, BERNIE, WIN!

[SoapBox]

4. Oh phish...that top pic...

Fringe.

[Zorra]

7. Wow, beautiful! Thanks.

[tomm2thumbs]

12. that picture is downright Obama-08-PLUS... seriously

Completely and totally awesome beyond measure...

Thanks for the post

[merrily]

20. We've been told several times daily that he is not Obama. Just how much drilling do you require?

kidding.

[tomm2thumbs]

21. waves and waves

and then some...



(It's obvious he's yelling 'O-ba-ma')

lololol

[merrily]

24. I see. Unrepentant. Very well then.

[tomm2thumbs]

25. my fave was at 53:39

that was the best one

bwahahahahahah!!!

[merrily]

27. OMG. Mine, too! This is unreal.

[Ed Suspicious]

33. Right. Obama was whatever you wanted him to be, but Bernie is Bernie, and Bernie is righteous.

[Live and Learn]

13. Another wonderful turnout. nt

[Duckfan]

15. Another massive crowd for Bernie?

That deserves another great big......



But I'm getting a little scared of what happens after New Hampshire. Please let South Carolina Feel The Bern.

[CentralMass]

17. Damn, that does look lke movement doesn't it. i was able to make the Portland Rally.

We had 26k. I was a little surprised and very impressed with the number of young people who attended I took the train and had the opportunity to talk a lot of people. The vast majority of people on the train were going to the rally.
There was an accident on a bridge right before the Modal Center and we had to leave the train and wait for buses. By the time we arrived at the Modal Center the half mile line in your photo from Boston was about the size of the line, 3 or 4 people wide, that was waiting in Portland. I had to run the other side of the building, where luckily the lines were shorter, or I never would have made it in before they reached max capacity. On the trip home I was carrying my Bernie sign from the rally. It was packed in the train and I numerous young people strike up a conversation about Berne and the rally. They were engaged and knowlegible on Bernie's positions and message.

I am very hopeful that Bernie is really going to get people to come it and vote in the primary, including young people. The energy and effort people are making to attend his rallies is very encouraging.

[jkbRN]

19. That's awesome!

[artislife]

32. Fantastic account!

Thank you for showing up and then telling us about it.

[Enthusiast]

22. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

[d_legendary1]

23. A lot of millennials at that event

They will be the ones who will push Sanders to the top. The future is looking great every single day!

[Larkspur]

28. Don't these people know that Hillary has nearly all the Superdelegates locked up!

And that per the African American political consultant on MHP this morning, Bernie has no hope to win the Democratic nomination?



She kept rolling her eyes anytime someone suggested Bernie's chances on winning the nomination are increasing.

All I can say is keep the political revolution rolling.

[Stardust]

34. MHP was rolling her eyes? If so, that's very disappointing. eom

[HooptieWagon]

29. Let's be fair.

Hillary does manage to draw 50 people to a $2700/ plate dinner...

[Divernan]

35. They don't get a dinner - maybe an amuse bouche or 2 & glass of wine.

She's in & out of those gated estates in 2 hours or so.That's how it went for her "Conversations with Hillary" soiree in my suburb.

Arrive
Use the rest room
Give a 20 minute, feel good talk

Then it's 30 seconds each to pose for a single picture each with anyone who coughed up $2,700. (Memo to campaign staff re photo ops: Move em in, head em out - keep those dogies movin' -Rawhide!)

And it's buh-bye, Hillary.

Let's follow the bouncing ball and sing along:

Move 'em out, head 'em up,
Head 'em up, move 'em on.
Move 'em out, head 'em up:
Rawhide.
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in,
Ride 'em in, cut 'em out,
Cut 'em out, ride 'em in:
Rawhide!
Hah! Hah!

Movin', movin', movin',
Though they're disapprovin',
Keep them dogies movin', rawhide.
Don't try to understand 'em,
Just rope an' throw an' brand 'em.
Soon we'll be living high and wide.

[cantbeserious]

31. As It Should Be - No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go

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