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cal04's JournalEstimated 5,000-plus supporters attend Bernie Sanders rally in Raleigh
Bernie Sanders returned to North Carolina to rally an estimated 5,000-plus supporters in the final days before the state’s Democratic presidential primary.
The Vermont senator scheduled a campaign event at midday Friday at the Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts. North Carolina is one of five states holding presidential primaries next Tuesday. Hundreds of supporters arrived early to land a seat inside.
The Vermont senator was introduced by supporter and Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii Tulsi Gabbard.
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Approximately 2,400 people were inside the auditorium for the rally. According to Sanders’ campaign, another 3,000 were outside listening to the speech. Some in attendance climbed trees to get a better view of Sanders when he addressed the crowd outside before his speech inside.
http://wncn.com/2016/03/10/bernie-sanders-to-hold-rally-friday-in-raleigh/
http://abc11.com/politics/bernie-sanders-campaigns-in-raleigh/1241833/
Bernie apologizes for keeping them waiting. He was talking to the thousands outside
Tulsi Gabbard gave Bernie Sanders an endorsement. He gave her a platform on war and peace
The thousands of people who have streamed to Bernie Sanders’s rallies around the country in recent days have been treated to an opening act -- Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii -- who arguably does more to articulate Sanders’s views on foreign policy than he does.
Gabbard, 34, who resigned as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee last month to endorse Sanders for president, has been tasked with introducing him at recent events, including one here Thursday that drew more than 5,000 people.
Unlike the Vermont senator, who focuses heavily on domestic policy at his rallies, Gabbard is talking about U.S. entanglements abroad. And she doesn’t pull any punches when relaying what she sees as a crucial difference between Sanders and her party’s front-runner, Hillary Clinton
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She said she trusts Sanders to “make those decisions about when and where our American military powers should be used and just as importantly, when and where it should not be used.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03/11/tulsi-gabbard-gave-bernie-sanders-an-endorsement-he-gave-her-a-platform-on-war-and-peace/
Watching her talk in NC
Wow!
Why Sanders Could Repeat His Big Michigan Upset In Ohio
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/sanders-clinton-michigan-ohioBernie Sanders’ upset victory in Michigan was a major shock for Hillary Clinton supporters for many reasons -- not the least of which was the prior polling that showed her beating Sander by 20-plus percentage points.
But the perils of public primary polling aside, Sanders’ Michigan win suggests it’s too soon to write the Democratic socialist and his message of political revolution off. Next Tuesday’s Ohio primary will be the next major test for him to prove he has broadened his appeal and there, his attacks on her stance on trade deals may prove equally effective as they were in Michigan.
Michigan’s neighbor to the south shares its industrial heritage, bears a similar demographic mix, and even the geography of Ohio Democratic voters resembles Michigan's. Ohio presents the same sort of electoral conditions as Michigan, and those conditions could prove just as receptive to Sanders’ criticism of trade deals.
“It has a lot of the same industry and it has a lot of the same feel of jobs being outsourced, and good jobs going away,” Michael Parkin, an associate professor of politics at Oberlin College, told TPM.
Robert Reich: I continue to be astonished by the enthusiasm of young people
I continue to be astonished by the enthusiasm of young people for Bernie Sanders (they cheered him loudly tonight during his Miami debate with Hillary Clinton and gave him a standing ovation at the end, and their cries of “Bernie, Bernie, Bernie” filled the hall as the television commentators tried to summarize). Surely Barack Obama inspired the young in 2008, but I haven’t seen this degree of passion since Bobby Kennedy ran in 1968.
Bobby was himself young then, and he was connected to the glamorous and magical “Camelot” of JFK. So how can a 74-year-old Jewish democratic-socialist with a Brooklyn accent inspire this degree of excitement? I think it’s Bernie’s authentic commitment to a bold vision of what America can do and be, and the "political revolution" animating that vision. Just as JFK and Bobby inspired a generation to dedicate itself to social and economic justice, so too does Bernie and the movement he is leading.
What do you think?
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Michael Moore:Standing ovation, cheering Bernie, Bernie
Minutes after the debate is over, majority of crowd still cheering "Bernie! Bernie!" Never seen this at end of debate. Clearly Bernie won.
A standing O for Bernie's great closing statement. Don't we want to strive for that vision than just give up and say we can only get crumbs?
The Michigan Miracle gets extended tonight.
https://twitter.com/MMFlint
Michael Moore:Standing ovation, cheering Bernie, Bernie
Minutes after the debate is over, majority of crowd still cheering "Bernie! Bernie!" Never seen this at end of debate. Clearly Bernie won.
A standing O for Bernie's great closing statement. Don't we want to strive for that vision than just give up and say we can only get crumbs?
https://twitter.com/MMFlint
NPR interview: Bernie Sanders: 'Stay Tuned ... We Can Win This Thing'
Bernie Sanders was the story of Tuesday night as he beat Hillary Clinton in Michigan's Democratic presidential primary. It wasn't a walloping — he won by less than 2 points — but still a big coup considering Clinton led in most polls by double digits before the race.
Michigan is Sanders' ninth state win, though Clinton still leads in delegates overall.
That means Sanders is only partway up a steep hill to the nomination.
"I am used to climbing steep hills," Sanders told NPR's Ari Shapiro, host of All Things Considered, noting that when he began his campaign he was unknown to most Americans. "Stay tuned. I think we are going to go further and we have a good chance to pull off the biggest political upset in the modern history of America. We can win this thing."
http://www.npr.org/2016/03/09/469813523/bernie-sanders-stay-tuned-we-can-win-this-thing
interview
http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=469813523&m=469837068
Chris Cillizza Why Bernie Sanders’s win in Michigan matters so much
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Hillary Clinton took more delegates out of the primaries in Michigan and Mississippi on Tuesday night. But Bernie Sanders, by winning in Michigan, scored a massively important symbolic victory that will likely re-energize his campaign and extend the Democratic presidential race for weeks, if not months.
“What tonight means is that the Bernie Sanders campaign ... is strong in every part of the country," Sanders said in brief remarks in Florida on Tuesday night. “We believe our strongest areas are yet to happen."
Given Sanders’s remarkable comeback in Michigan — most polling had him losing by more than 20 points — there are a handful of large, industrial states, many clumped in the Midwest, where Sanders now has to be considered viable, assuming he continues to ride the trade message that catapulted him to the top in the Wolverine State.
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And so, Clinton remains favored to be the nominee. But on a night in which the Clinton campaign was hoping to take a big step forward in closing out Sanders’s uprising, they took a big step back instead. The race continues — and will continue for quite some time. That’s very good news for Sanders and bad news for Clinton. Period.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/03/09/why-bernie-sanderss-win-in-michigan-matters-so-much/
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