Bernie Sanders scrambles to build Iowa team to meet popular demand [View all]

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Campaign aides for liberal warrior Bernie Sanders are scrambling to hire more staff in Iowa and open an Iowa office to keep up with momentum as each of his events attracts a crush of hundreds.

"People are out ahead and we're trying to play catch-up organizationally to give these people a vehicle to participate in the campaign," Sanders' campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, told The Des Moines Register on Thursday morning.

Sanders is the no-party Vermont U.S. senator who's running for president as a Democrat. His rebel yell calling for a revolution — he wants to fight economic inequality and wrest control of the government from millionaires — has brought Iowans running.

Sanders's crowd-attracting abilities are reminiscent of another revolution-rallying, white-haired grandfather-like figure who was also famous for stemwinders on big change for the federal government: Ron Paul, the Republican who finished in third place just 3 points behind the leaders in the 2012 Iowa caucuses.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/06/04/bernie-sanders-scrambles-build-iowa-team/28477881/

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"If you build it, they will come." When people are coming whether you've built anything or not, something is happening that can't be ignored. What a wonderful problem this must be to have for any candidate!