Role reversal: Hillary OUTDRAWS Sanders -- 1,500 to 1,000 -- last night in Davenport.

[ucrdem]

Per NPR hourly news. Fancy that!

p.s. audio link to story:

Iowa Update: Republicans And Democrats Race To Reach Supporters
Updated January 30, 20168:25 AM ET

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/30/464960972/iowa-update-republicans-and-democrats-race-to-reach-supporters

[cali]

1. You mean Bill and Hillary outdrew Bernie.

[Bonobo]

4. Bill was there too? LOL

Ooops, I'm sure that had NOTHING to do with it?

[ucrdem]

6. Hill brought Bill and Bernie brought Cornell West.

Just sayin. . . .

[redstateblues]

7. Hate to miss Cornell trashing our President

[ucrdem]

10. Yes I imagine many more would have attended

but they had to stay home and clear dustbunnies out of their PCs.

[Scootaloo]

29. Love to see white Clinton supporters "tone policing" black intellectuals.

it's a fine reminder of where you guys really stand.

[Hiraeth]

49. I love the smell of irony, too.

[Bonobo]

17. And I'm just saying if Bill hadn't been there...

They would haven't had enough people for a decent poker game.

[ucrdem]

18. I've said all along that Bill and Barack would close any enthusiasm gap.

More than close it appears. Hope Bill's voice holds out.

[askew]

35. People will turn out to see Bill but still turn around and caucus for O'Malley or Sanders.

[Fawke Em]

39. Yup. I'd go see Bill. I mean, he's a former president.

And I'm all in for Bernie.

Doesn't mean I'd vote for Hillary, though.

[askew]

44. There are lots of Dems just like you.

I personally think the Clintons are both equally sleazy and have no interest in hearing either of them lie to me in person. But, if Obama was speaking on behalf of Hillary, I'd be there in a heartbeat to hear Obama (and then leave before Hillary speaks).

[KittyWampus]

20. Yeah, too bad she couldn't get Cornel West or Mia Farrow.

[SheenaR]

37. Good one

And good luck getting a single delegate Monday

[JimDandy]

43. There are about 1,680 Iowa delegate slots. Sanders undoubtedly will get a large number of those.

Enthusiastic support for your candidate is good, but hyperbole like that and complacency this primary season has not been good for your candidate. It has allowed Sanders to steam ahead under the radar to frontrunner or near-frontrunner status.

[SheenaR]

45. I like Sanders

my response was to the verbose O'Malley supporter

[JimDandy]

46. Ahh. That makes sense now.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. and 800 campaign workers brought it to bolster the numbers

[ucrdem]

11. Not according to the NPR report. nt

[workinclasszero]

2. Nice

[Motown_Johnny]

3. got a link? n/t

[ucrdem]

5. Yep. Just found it:

No transcript yet but the Dem part of the report starts at 2:40:

http://www.npr.org/2016/01/30/464960972/iowa-update-republicans-and-democrats-race-to-reach-supporters

"In something of a role reversal, Clinton drew the larger crowd . . . "

[Motown_Johnny]

9. OK, Bill and Hillary did outdraw Bernie at one event, but Bernie had 5 events yesterday

while Hillary only had 3.


I am betting that the daily total is in Bernie's favor.



More importantly, Cruz doesn't know the difference between kindling and tinder.

I bet most Iowans do.

[ucrdem]

12. Sanders: "kidnapping might be a good method to get people to show up in caucus"

at 4:37.

[bullwinkle428]

13. Friday in Dubuque - Bernie draws 1300; Hillary had 460 attendees.

It was better late than never for Bernie Sanders on Friday night in Dubuque.

While the Democratic presidential candidate was about an hour late for his campaign event at Grand River Center, an enthusiastic crowd of 1,300 people greeted him when he arrived.

"It sounds like Dubuque is ready for a political revolution," the senator from Vermont said to the crowd that had chanted his name while waiting for him to arrive.

Sanders' stop in Dubuque came hours after his main Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, hosted a campaign event at Five Flags Center. Clinton's event drew about 460 people. Polls show the two as the clear front-runners among the Democratic presidential candidates. The Iowa caucuses will be held Monday.

http://www.thonline.com/news/tri-state/article_e6487b45-6fd4-5cbc-b00d-f926a2e942df.html

[ucrdem]

16. We'll always have Dubuque

[Nanjeanne]

14. Holy moly

Bill and Hill had 500 more people at her rally in Davenport than Sanders did one whole time! That's a slam dunk. Her momentum is OFF THE CHAIN!

We may as well stay home now.

[Iliyah]

15. LOL, I thought that was pretty funny

[libdem4life]

19. Perhaps they were there to reassure themselves as the email investigation heats up.

[KingCharlemagne]

21. She had to pay 1,400 of them to show up! - nt

[ViseGrip]

22. And the day before, she didn't fill a room for 1000. barely half.

Here is the pic...

https://twitter.com/HillaryTvLive/status/693190465915621376


Shai'it'lry is Bern'd so bad, the toast is beyond being edible. Just this week Chelsea had to reduce $2600 per dinner plate, to $60; and her mom couldn't even fill a room, in Iowa, that holds 1000 ppl. Pic at link above....

Meanwhile, Senator Sanders is beating Obama's record for number of donations and crowds.

[ucrdem]

24. The only rooms that matter are the caucus rooms.

Who do you think has the better GOTV operation?

[askew]

34. O'Malley has the best GOTV operation IMO.

[OhZone]

23. There she goes!

OHYEAH!

[Hiraeth]

50. ah yeah, nice little tune that. thanks for the interlude.

[MauriceLawrence96]

25. Out of curiosity, what's the largest turn out Hillary had this cycle? nt

[ucrdem]

26. 15.3 million on Oct. 13, a record it seems

"highest-rated Democratic debate in history" per CNN:

Americans are again demonstrating strong interest in the 2016 presidential campaign as the Democratic debate Tuesday night averaged 15.3 million viewers, making it the highest-rated Democratic debate in history, CNN reported.

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/ken-walshs-washington/2015/10/15/viewership-hits-record-for-a-democratic-debate

[Half-Century Man]

27. So, the debate DWS was forced into and was hosted by CNN

Made history, according to CNN.

What a wonderful coincidence that makes good marketing for CNN
And what an embarrassment for DWS.

[cherokeeprogressive]

30. 12.9 million or those people tuned in out of curiosity...

They wanted to know more about Bernie Sanders.

[Half-Century Man]

28. Good for her.

It's only taken nearly a year and millions of dollars.

Kind of embarrassing really.

[catnhatnh]

31. Given the choice I'd go see Hillary...

Bernie will be around until November, but Hillary could be indicted any day...

[Fawke Em]

40. SNORT.

And cameras aren't allowed in federal court.

[Kokonoe]

54. &

[book_worm]

32. Again big rallies are nice, but don't translate to votes

George McGovern got bigger crowds than Nixon did in 1972 but lost 60-37 percent in the election.

[SheenaR]

38. We aren't running against a Former Vice President in November

We are running against a Reality Star. Comparison is bogus

[redstateblues]

47. Everybody I knew at the time voted for McGovern

How is it possible Nixon still won! Of course everyone I knew was a long haired hippie like I was!

[askew]

33. Hillary didn't outdraw Sanders. Bill and Hillary did.

Hillary had a poor crowd earlier in the day when she was on her own. There's a reason the only Hillary event that has outdrawn Sanders featured Bill heavily. He is more popular than Hillary by far. And interestingly enough, the media interviewed people at the last Bill solo event in Iowa and a large part of the crowd had just come out to see an ex-President but were backing Sanders or O'Malley.

[ucrdem]

36. Yes, Hillary has Bill and Barack, and pretty soon she'll have Bernie and Martin too.

That's how she wins in November. Don't you want to win?

[Fawke Em]

41. We won't win with her. eom

[ucrdem]

42. She'll never win the Twittersphere, that's for damn sure.

Or Reddit or Facebook or the rest of social media which is basically pay-to-play all the way. The ballot box is something else altogether.

[pinebox]

51. Or beat Ted Cruz

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_cruz_vs_clinton-4034.html

[redstateblues]

48. A couple weeks ago BSS and the corporate media

were all saying that having Bill on the campaign trail was a huge negative. Not so much I guess. People remember eight years of peace and prosperity although many on DU will tell us what a failure his Presidency was-like what they say about Obama's

[Lorien]

52. Nope.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10208172025154717&set=a.1866824466713.2107469.1124082049&type=3&theater

[pinebox]

53. Meanwhile right now in Iowa