2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumI was glad to see Bernie first address the crowd outside of
Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium that couldn't get inside due to the overflow to see him. Also glad he picked up another endorsement. To the thousands who showed up on short notice, kudos.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)peacebird
(14,195 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)I've seen so many clips of him going out to talk to crowds waiting outside of his venues -
he has more class in his little finger than Hillary and Bill put together.
thereismore
(13,326 posts)No I take that back. She wouldn't.
tokenlib
(4,186 posts)Qutzupalotl
(14,997 posts)It shows the candidate does not take us for granted. Even just a few minutes will let people who stood in line for hours get to say they saw the next president.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)by herself in 2008.
november3rd
(1,113 posts)She also endorsed Bernie yesterday
mmonk
(52,589 posts)if she would.
gordyfl
(598 posts)mmonk
(52,589 posts)gordyfl
(598 posts)It seems like Bernie always finds time for everyone who made the effort.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Divernan
(15,480 posts)Seriously, those claimed crowd numbers, when provided by her own campaign, and unaccompanied by full crowd pictures (like we see from Bernie's campaign) have proven extremely inflated in the past - that happened when Bill spoke to a fund raiser in Pittsburgh, and those pesky attendees were interviewed by local press. Then you have to discount the number of security/secret service; press; and Clinton campaign workers. She'd be doing good to have 200.
If she really had 600, that would be an all-time record, with the exception of her carefully staged Roosevelt Island announcement to kick off her official race. And there would be a lot of photos put out to show that size of the crowd.
unflapped
(18 posts)Bernie cares about people!
RiverLover
(7,830 posts)I hope the turn out is as good as it was in Raleigh!
mmonk
(52,589 posts)global1
(25,836 posts)He and his wife were in an overflow room and before Bernie went into the main room to deliver his speech he went into the overflow room to thank all of his supporters for coming out and supporting him.
mmonk
(52,589 posts)Karma13612
(4,661 posts)We stood outside, in fact we were the very first people (hubbie and I) who were cut off from going inside to the arena.
We were asked to line up in the street. And the crowd kept growing behind us. When we looked backwards, it was a sea of people. We stood there, maybe 15 people abreast. And as far back as the eye could see.
We watched as they erected a little podium and platform, we got wanded by the Secret service and we waited for a time.
Then Obama got up on the little platform and spoke to all the people in the packed street. Then he came down and walked along the front of the crowd and shook as many hands as he could reach.
We shook hands with President Barack Obama. And hubbie got pics as well.
Pretty cool
I can only imagine how the Bernie supporters are feeling right now who are getting to hear him speak, and shake his hands.
So happy for you all.
H2O Man
(75,151 posts)BigBearJohn
(11,410 posts)Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)Bernie's going to need Dodger Stadium!
mmonk
(52,589 posts)Uncle Joe
(59,913 posts)Thanks for the thread, mmonk.