Awesome event! Turnout of thousands for Hillary Clinton rally in Milwaukee: (HILLARY GROUP) [View all]

[DeepModem Mom]

The turnout was terrific today for Hillary Clinton's first campaign visit to Wisconsin -- to Milwaukee, a working-class city, where she fired up a crowd of thousands at the city's working-class campus.

They waited as long as two hours in line, out the building and halfway around the block (a huge block), owing to incredibly slow security after a last-minute move of the rally indoors, as even the start of a storm did not dampen the stamina of those still in line.

Some had finally given up on getting into the event -- or the attendance would have been even larger -- and had left, not realizing that the crowd would be accommodated in not just one but two overflow rooms, for another thousand in attendance, in addition to the thousand in the standing-room-only main room (where the stage actually had started to collapse but, after more delay, was bolstered to bring Clinton to the mic almost on time).

Although billed as a "Women for Hillary" rally, it drew as many men as women, and especially young men and women. When Clinton finally came to the stage -- which actually had started to collapse -- after the overflow crowds had been accommodated, reactions of younger supporters were especially strong to her plan to refinance student-loan debt. And, of course, to her mocking of their governor, who again this year had slashed funding for their public university system by a quarter of a billion dollars...

http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/11/1420291/-Turnout-of-thousands-for-Hillary-Clinton-rally-in-Milwaukee via Daily Kos