Despite all the free media, Trump's rally was only half-full, and this in Alabama.
But you would not know that from the media's reporting. The info is generally buried in the middle of the page. Kudos to Rachel Maddow for making this clear.
Still a lot of people, but about half what they boasted they would get. You got to wonder how many Sanders or even Cruz/Carson (
) could get if their rally was publicized like his.
http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/21/politics/donald-trump-rally-mobile-alabama/index.html?eref=edition
The event was previously planned to be held at the nearby Civic Center but was moved to the 43,000-seat Ladd-Peebles Stadium -- a venue normally home to high school football games -- to accommodate the crowd. It was not immediately clear how many people attended the rally; the 5,000-seat bleachers behind Trump were filled to capacity, but the east and west bleachers flanking the field -- which each hold up to 15,000 people -- were about half-full when Trump began speaking around 7:30 p.m. CT.
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similar these "crowds" are, on both sides. It's obvious that white America is anxious to return a white man, ANY WHITE MAN, to the Oval Office. That's all I see when I look at these "crowds". 
But that's just me.
This is getting kinda weird… since when does size matter? 
A former chief strategist for Howard Dean, whose 2004 presidential hopes plummeted from rock star status to also-ran, predicts a similar fate for the Democratic darling of the moment, Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.
“There’s a big difference between 10,000 at a rally and turning out 3,500 caucus attenders on a cold winter night in Iowa. I suspect Bernie Sanders will learn the difference in February,” said Steve McMahon, Dean’s one-time top strategist. “His crowds are enthusiastic and large and fun to watch, but the question is whether they will be effective in the long run.”
“Bernie Sanders needs to move the crowds into action and organize grass-roots support in the early states and so far, I haven’t seen any evidence that that’s occurring,” he said. “He doesn’t seem to be running a grass-roots campaign. It’s a campaign based on big crowds.”
“He’s not going to have the money or organization to challenge Secretary Clinton in multiple states at the same time on Super Tuesday,” Bennett said.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2015/07/the_bernie_sanders_bubble_get_set_for_a_flameout_analysts_say
I don't watch Rachel much anymore, but I was surprised to tune in and hearing her comparing BS crowd size to DT. No mention that the crowds look almost exactly the same.
I just want to return a person who fights for the middle and working class and isn't beholding to big corporations to the White House. I don't care what color or gender that person is.
BTW, Sanders' crowds are becoming quite colorful as more black and Hispanic people hear about him, but you stick to your meme.
On Edit:
Bernie in South Carolina:
(Carolina For Bernie members)
Does BS have SOME black support? Yes. But it's always been in the single digits. But not to worry, his newly hired black BLM press sec is on the job. I can see her memo now, but I'll leave it up to your imagination as to what it says.
And for that reason, as a lifelong Democrat, it's not complicated at all for me. Hillary was a teenager, who couldn't even vote, when she was a "Goldwater Girl". That can't be said for such liberal lions/lionesses as Elizabeth Warren, who was damn near 50 when she switched her registration. Oh, and there's Ed Schultz, Cenk Ugyr, Jim Webb, Lincoln Chafee (all former Repubs), none of whom I would ever vote for, and that includes BS.
notwithstanding, I'll decide who I vote for, just as you will. I know that's hard for some of you who despise party loyalists, but I will always choose the real Democrat. I mean, what's to stop any of the Republicans from switching parties, just like BS, and running as a "Democrat"? And as far as I know, BS still hasn't changed parties.
Those tired old Goldwater Girl talking points must have a shelf life. It's 2015 ferchrissakes. I don't give a shit what any of the candidates were doing 50 years ago, and that includes "marching with MLK".
“Everything I’m telling you may end up being wrong,” Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator seeking the Democratic nomination for president, said early in our conversation on Thursday.
I had written an article concluding he had slim chances of winning the nomination, based on the limits of his ideological appeal. Mr. Sanders was building a coalition of liberals, as have past liberal anti-establishment Democrats, and it was likely to fall short.
But Mr. Sanders, who has surged in the polls against Hillary Clinton, called to advance a different theory of the race. “I look at these things more from a class perspective,” he said.
“I’m not a liberal. Never have been. I’m a progressive who mostly focuses on the working and middle class.”
The difference between a liberal and a progressive focused on workers might seem slim, but it nonetheless shapes how he envisions the potential of the political coalition he hopes to assemble. He believes he can mobilize a working-class coalition spanning ideological divides.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/12/upshot/class-or-ideology-my-conversation-with-bernie-sanders.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=176
You're welcome.
threat to the nomination. Trust me. HRC might have 99 problems, but BS ain't one.
What's so hard to understand about that?
Damnit. I thought there was a difference.
HRC is only better than the Republicans on CERTAIN social issues that she's "EVOLVED" from.
Bernie is what the Democratic Party should have been all along.
That was the link.
Sorry you missed the dynamic.
Is the 2016 Democratic primary a sequel of 2008?....(W)e have plenty of data to see a number of problems with comparing Sanders’s rise to President Obama’s toppling of Hillary Clinton in 2008.
There are clear differences between the Sanders and Obama campaigns. Most obvious is that Obama won 82 percent of the black vote in the 2008 primary, while Sanders continues to pick up less than 10 percent of black voters’ support. But the two Clinton campaigns have big differences too. The best data we have — polling, endorsements and fundraising — says Clinton is in a much stronger position now than she was at this point in the 2008 cycle.
* Polling
....Clinton is doing better in every single state. On average, she’s doing 21 percentage points better. Nationally, she’s 18 percentage points ahead of her old mark. (This shrinks to 12 percentage points if you just look at August data.)...
http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/bernie-sanders-youre-no-barack-obama/
You were saying?
were talking about?
in an area of the country that looks nothing like IA, NH & VT. It's only a "meme", until someone provides evidence. Thanks for the evidence.
I can't STAND the guy. I think he's a hate filled buffoon. But there's something to be learned by seeing what kind of people turn out for that shit, and where their mindset is.
I'd even look for a reporter and try to let them know that, too.
And what, really, have we learned about "crowd size?" It seems lots of people like to lie about it!!
I'm not sure I get what the point is other than to have shit to talk about in the ravenous 24/7 media beast. Rachel's show used to be the pinnacle for substantive issue based tv. Sadly, she's scraping the bottom like the rest of them. I had to remove her from my DVR lineup. It's all DT & BS, all the time. 
And I'm sorry, but I wouldn't be caught dead in a crowd of DT "supporters". I'm not that curious.
ratings, but enough DONALD already. It's almost as if MSNBC has become his personal campaign representative. Him & his new orange hairdo make me .
Frankly, I don't think they can dump enough hosts to make it better. They're kinda stuck. If they move any further right, they'll lose viewers, and if they move any further left, expect the same result. If you can get an entire news day wrapped up in a fast paced, funny, and sometimes serious way from Jon Stewart or Larry Wilmore, in 30 minutes, why the hell would you spend the whole day at MSNBC?
Frankly, I see MSNBC going the way of Air America, and they shouldn't have to. 
Of course, I think RM will land on her feet somewhere, but I just don't see it lasting.
the facts, but that doesn't seem to be what cable is about. I'm often surprised at the ratings for the evening news. It seems there is a market for news, but it has to be in 30 mins or less, like Pizza delivery.
Especially when the numbers don't match, not even close
Twenty Thousand Considered Disappointing Turnout for Racist Event in Alabama
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/twenty-thousand-considered-disappointing-turnout-for-racist-event-in-alabama
A rally featuring a racist speaker Friday night in Mobile attracted a crowd of just twenty thousand people, widely considered a disappointing turnout for a racist event in Alabama.
According to racist event planners in the state, a crowd of twenty thousand would rank the event as one of the smaller racist rallies in Alabama this year. ...........
