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amborin

(16,631 posts)
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 09:22 PM Feb 2016

Media Blackout As Thousands March for Bernie in 45 Cities






Media Blackout As Thousands of Bernie Sanders Supporters March in 45 Cities


Nathan Wellman | February 27, 2016

Ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries, a nationwide march has swept across the nation for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Organizers have reported that at least 40 cities are holding demonstrations, and perhaps as many as 70.

Thousands of cheering Bernie supporters have packed metropolitan sidewalks and streets, further cementing the rallying cry that the Bernie phenomenon is more than a Presidential campaign. It’s a passionate political movement that demands revolution. Despite everything they’ve battled so far, the Sanders campaign is thriving.

Ahead of the Super Tuesday primaries, a nationwide march has swept across the nation for Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Organizers have reported that at least 40 cities are holding demonstrations, and perhaps as many as 70.

Thousands of cheering Bernie supporters have packed metropolitan sidewalks and streets, further cementing the rallying cry that the Bernie phenomenon is more than a Presidential campaign. It’s a passionate political movement that demands revolution. Despite everything they’ve battled so far, the Sanders campaign is thriving.

https://mtc.cdn.vine.co/r/videos_h264high/5729BE268F1315432911662694400_SW_WEBM_1456597855970f610970c14.mp4?versionId=l9fJdz719Cp66OScbBFTmPmZNEVOnos9

The insane reality that a candidate like Bernie can rouse thousands to take to the streets for him and yet still be treated by the media and the DNC like some kind of long-shot underdog only further proves the deliberate nature of their attempted sabotage of his campaign.

By contrast, Hillary Clinton’s campaign hasn’t been able to muster enough supporters for a march of any kind for the entire election season.


http://usuncut.com/politics/media-blackout-as-thousands-of-bernie-supporters-march-in-45-cities/
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Media Blackout As Thousands March for Bernie in 45 Cities (Original Post) amborin Feb 2016 OP
It's a revolution lovuian Feb 2016 #1
AND, As The Saying Goes... The REVOLUTION ChiciB1 Feb 2016 #17
Bravo Jenny_92808 Feb 2016 #68
And yet the other turnout on our side is down so far. Chicago1980 Feb 2016 #30
This is going to get interesting if Hillary wins the nomination.... Joe the Revelator Feb 2016 #2
Why? She's winning with actual voters. Metric System Feb 2016 #6
Lies travel half way around the world before truth has its shoes on. senz Feb 2016 #10
are you drunk or you think they make Cyborgs now O_O N/T thunk PatrynXX Feb 2016 #21
not this voter. DocMac Feb 2016 #44
Media black out. Wow. Does the establishment realize how strong and clear a message merrily Feb 2016 #3
Corporate America vs. The People senz Feb 2016 #4
^^^ This ^^^ cantbeserious Feb 2016 #9
^^Yep. This. ^^ silvershadow Feb 2016 #24
Yep. They are GROSSLY over-playing their hand... AzDar Feb 2016 #18
Oligarchs vs serfs. SciDude Feb 2016 #20
Precisely. Ghost Dog Feb 2016 #41
Good to see so many taking to the streets. LWolf Feb 2016 #5
Occupy & Create Ghost Dog Feb 2016 #42
Yes. LWolf Feb 2016 #45
Untelevised revolutions Rebkeh Feb 2016 #7
Thank you Bernie peeps! Jefferson23 Feb 2016 #8
K&R disillusioned73 Feb 2016 #11
I love this line noretreatnosurrender Feb 2016 #12
K&R -- people need to know this senz Feb 2016 #13
sandra's mgmaggiemg Feb 2016 #27
Perhaps her people are busy elsewhere--canvassing, calling and voting...as evidenced in SC. Surya Gayatri Feb 2016 #14
Just one state thats on the map utterly worthless. it's a Trump state PatrynXX Feb 2016 #16
"Utterly worthless"...the fine people of SC might beg to differ! LOL! Surya Gayatri Feb 2016 #19
South Carolina has not voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since 1976. JDPriestly Feb 2016 #38
Watch the delegate count. Really. MineralMan Feb 2016 #59
South Carolina isn't any more "utterly worthless" than Alaska is, Blue_In_AK Feb 2016 #28
reminds me of OWS vs the tea party supposed rally's PatrynXX Feb 2016 #15
The corporate media propaganda machine is all-in for Clinton SciDude Feb 2016 #22
I know, right? NJCher Feb 2016 #35
The last 2 lines are telling: Herman4747 Feb 2016 #23
They will march, but will they vote? Chico Man Feb 2016 #25
They haven't been voting thus far. Chicago1980 Feb 2016 #32
lmao mgmaggiemg Feb 2016 #26
Americans are beginning to realize that . . . DrBulldog Feb 2016 #29
Especially is lazy ass 'revolutionaries' stay home. Chicago1980 Feb 2016 #33
OK, Mr./Ms. One-trick-pony. Le Taz Hot Feb 2016 #53
Anyone can hand someone a voter registration form MineralMan Feb 2016 #60
Did the organizers have a registration drive going on? flamingdem Feb 2016 #31
HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Feb 2016 #34
I have a Bernie boner! Lol Pharaoh Feb 2016 #36
Why did I not know this was happening? kacekwl Feb 2016 #37
At some point... gregcrawford Feb 2016 #39
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Feb 2016 #40
Main stream media is so in the tank for Hillary Don Draper Feb 2016 #43
As invisible on the M$M as a massive Iraq antiwar march. nt valerief Feb 2016 #46
Best line: dchill Feb 2016 #47
74-26... brooklynite Feb 2016 #49
no way to tell in sc,no paper to count questionseverything Feb 2016 #55
I guess we'll just have to accept Sanders' decision not to challenge the results in any way... brooklynite Feb 2016 #56
judge rawl's challenge didn't work and he had tons of evidence questionseverything Feb 2016 #57
And yet, I've gotten half a dozen calls from Hillary's canvassers MineralMan Feb 2016 #61
How would I know that? dchill Feb 2016 #63
zowie! did to know oldandhappy Feb 2016 #48
There is a discrepancy between what is in the streets felix_numinous Feb 2016 #50
The crowds need to march to their respective polling places. Koinos Feb 2016 #51
Does this look like it's all over for the campaign to you? Le Taz Hot Feb 2016 #52
Can't have people seeing UglyGreed Feb 2016 #54
Cool. I hope they all turn out at their primaries and caucuses. MineralMan Feb 2016 #58
and this right here, is why trump will win if bernie is not the nom restorefreedom Feb 2016 #62
It would be a blackout without the internet felix_numinous Feb 2016 #64
The MSM is not the scoreboard. It is the cheerleaders. GreatGazoo Feb 2016 #65
And that does not even count the thousands of supporters jwirr Feb 2016 #66
beautiful.... kgnu_fan Feb 2016 #67

ChiciB1

(15,435 posts)
17. AND, As The Saying Goes... The REVOLUTION
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 10:51 PM
Feb 2016

won't be televised! If ever there's a more concerted effort by MSM and ALL THE OTHER heads in our GOVERNMENT... this is it! Just shut-up, ignore and make sure the message WON'T get heard!

Hillary can claim ALL the victories she wants, but the REALITY is... people don't like her! Too many are being told over and over BERNIE CAN'T WIN, so TOO MANY PEOPLE just roll over and play THEIR GAME!

The game that keeps REAL DEMOCRACY from being heard!

 

Joe the Revelator

(14,915 posts)
2. This is going to get interesting if Hillary wins the nomination....
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 09:23 PM
Feb 2016

We are watching the death of the democratic party.

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
10. Lies travel half way around the world before truth has its shoes on.
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 09:34 PM
Feb 2016

But truth will out.

Like it or not.

merrily

(45,251 posts)
3. Media black out. Wow. Does the establishment realize how strong and clear a message
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 09:25 PM
Feb 2016

it is sending, esp. to the largest living demographic?

DNC, media, almost 100% of Democratic officeholders endorsing and campaigning for one person, super delegates? Could it be any more clear?

noretreatnosurrender

(1,890 posts)
12. I love this line
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 09:34 PM
Feb 2016
Given the massive nature of these demonstrations, “traffic” will soon be the least of the establishment’s worries.
 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
14. Perhaps her people are busy elsewhere--canvassing, calling and voting...as evidenced in SC.
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 09:54 PM
Feb 2016
"Hillary Clinton’s campaign hasn’t been able to muster enough supporters for a march of any kind for the entire election season."

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
16. Just one state thats on the map utterly worthless. it's a Trump state
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 10:49 PM
Feb 2016

all that money for nothing course to Hillary meh super rich they don't care

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
38. South Carolina has not voted for a Democrat in a presidential election since 1976.
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 11:42 PM
Feb 2016

Hillary's "victories" in Southern states are meaningless. They make Hillary supporters feel good. But the only victory that counts is in November.

And in very liberal states, the states that elect Democratic presidents, and in swing states, we have yet to see who will win.

I think Bernie will win in many of them.

I think that once we start campaigning in California, we will see a Bernie landslide develop here. Same for Washington State and Oregon -- two major states.


Here is the Wikipedia article showing how states vote in presidential elections

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_election_results_by_state

Here are the maps.

http://www.270towin.com/historical-presidential-elections/

Alabama, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana -- pretty irrelevant in presidential elections at least for Democrats. Louisiana voted Democratic the most recently. It could go blue. But the South in general is hopeless.

Georgia? Virginia? Maybe they will vote blue in November. But a primary victory in South Carolina means nothing for a Democrat. Remember, that state, and others of the Southern states, only removed the Confederate flags from official buildings last year.

They are backward.

And before Democrats from those states here on this board start yelling at me, I ask them to tell me what they are going to do and are doing and have done to turn their states blue?????

Cause as you see from the maps, the South is deeply red. Don't tell me to be nice. Get out and turn your states blue.

MineralMan

(146,338 posts)
59. Watch the delegate count. Really.
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 03:58 PM
Feb 2016

You think those states don't count? Just count the delegates to the convention. They count. They count very much.

Blue_In_AK

(46,436 posts)
28. South Carolina isn't any more "utterly worthless" than Alaska is,
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 11:12 PM
Feb 2016

but neither state will go Democratic in November.

 

SciDude

(79 posts)
22. The corporate media propaganda machine is all-in for Clinton
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 10:57 PM
Feb 2016

and the oligarchy and it really shows when we see this kind of reporting.

 

Herman4747

(1,825 posts)
23. The last 2 lines are telling:
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 10:58 PM
Feb 2016
By contrast, Hillary Clinton’s campaign hasn’t been able to muster enough supporters for a march of any kind for the entire election season.
That about sums it up. If a person has to hold his/her nose to vote for Hillary, the GOTV may, shall we say, be a bit dampened.
 

DrBulldog

(841 posts)
29. Americans are beginning to realize that . . .
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 11:13 PM
Feb 2016

. . . if Hillary gets the nomination, so many of us will be pissed off and the anti-establishment forces are so strong that our next President is very likely to be Donald Trump!

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
53. OK, Mr./Ms. One-trick-pony.
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 12:57 PM
Feb 2016

Voter turnout is low for all kinds of reasons, but the main one is an absolute LACK of voter registration efforts leading up to the all of TWO primaries and a complete lack of GOTV effort on the part of the Democratic Party. That's the way they want it. Now, Bernie won New Hampshire, Hillary won South Carolina. There are 46 more states to go INCLUDING the more progressive states. So cool your jets, quit your incessant whining on this board and get out and do something. I phone banked for 3 hours into Colorado and Oklahoma for Bernie yesterday. What did you do?

MineralMan

(146,338 posts)
60. Anyone can hand someone a voter registration form
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 04:01 PM
Feb 2016

and drop the completed form in a mailbox.

Where I live, voter registration drives are done by candidates and the local party organization. How many voters have you helped to register? I've mailed over 100 registrations in the past four years. That's not a huge number, but I work in my own precinct.

You want people to register? Go help them register. Don't wait for someone else to do it.

kacekwl

(7,022 posts)
37. Why did I not know this was happening?
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 11:40 PM
Feb 2016

I get e-mails all the time asking for donations but nothing on this.

gregcrawford

(2,382 posts)
39. At some point...
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 11:43 PM
Feb 2016

... it must become apparent to even the most delusional "true believers" that the corruption of this Democratic primary campaign has rivaled, if not exceeded, anything in living memory. I am ashamed, though I doubt that its perpetrators feel even the slightest twinge of remorse or inhibition.

My faith in Bernie Sanders remains steadfast.

Don Draper

(187 posts)
43. Main stream media is so in the tank for Hillary
Sat Feb 27, 2016, 11:51 PM
Feb 2016

It's sickening. That's why I stopped watching corporate media regularly in years.

dchill

(38,559 posts)
47. Best line:
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 12:13 AM
Feb 2016
By contrast, Hillary Clinton’s campaign hasn’t been able to muster enough supporters for a march of any kind for the entire election season.

brooklynite

(94,787 posts)
49. 74-26...
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 12:39 AM
Feb 2016

Perhaps the Clinton campaign doesn't need rallies and marches....and perhaps rallies and marches don't actually translate to votes for the Sanders campaign.

questionseverything

(9,662 posts)
55. no way to tell in sc,no paper to count
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 03:17 PM
Feb 2016

'Arti-factual' Results

The case he'll present tomorrow to the state Democratic Party's executive committee does not include evidence of direct manipulation, but rather, a three-pronged case combining the known problems and historical failures of the ES&S iVotronic system, in combination with the statistical and political improbabilities that Greene, an unemployed, unknown candidate who did no campaigning whatsoever, could have legitimately received some 60% of the total vote.

"The results appear to be artificial, or 'arti-factual', as some people might say. As we've done our analysis, it just doesn't hold up," said Ludwig.

Speaking to the oft-cited fallacy being forwarded in the media that both candidates were equally unknown entities, who each did little or no campaigning, Ludwig re-iterated what Rawl has been saying in his recent media appearances. "There is an inherent presumption that these were equivalent campaigns. We campaigned, the other guy just simply didn't."

Rawl has said he'd raised hundreds of thousands of dollars during the campaign, appeared at some 80 campaign events all across the state since March 1st, and had hundreds of campaign volunteers. By way of contrast, Greene didn't have a campaign website, had no volunteers, no campaign literature, and doesn't even own a computer or a cell phone.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7899

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we are in a place in history where a candidate needs nothing but access to the software and a good IT guy

brooklynite

(94,787 posts)
56. I guess we'll just have to accept Sanders' decision not to challenge the results in any way...
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 03:37 PM
Feb 2016

...out of curiosity, is there any basis on which you can believe that authentic Democrats actually prefer Clinton to Sanders?

questionseverything

(9,662 posts)
57. judge rawl's challenge didn't work and he had tons of evidence
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 03:53 PM
Feb 2016

so there would be no point in bernie challenging ,the sc dem party have already shown they have no interest in transparent,accurate election results

surprised you are so happy with sc results since the dem turn out is 161,000 votes down

from 08

http://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/bitstream/handle/10827/13014/ELE_Presidential_Primaries_2008.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

as for the basis i would believe?

i believe in what i can see with my own eyes...not some result spit out by a "blackbox"

most of the super tuesday states have equally bad systems

MineralMan

(146,338 posts)
61. And yet, I've gotten half a dozen calls from Hillary's canvassers
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 04:04 PM
Feb 2016

in Minnesota, checking to see if I'll be caucusing for her. None from Bernie's camp. Why is that? I'm on all of the lists of Democratic voters, complete with both my landline and cell phone number and email address.

I've heard nothing from the Bernie Sanders campaign, but have received multiple contacts from Hillary's.

Your explanation?

dchill

(38,559 posts)
63. How would I know that?
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 04:10 PM
Feb 2016

Besides, the question is, where are all the marches for Hillary.
Can you answer:
Why did Hillary vote for the IWR?
Why did Hillary give paid speeches to Wall Street?

oldandhappy

(6,719 posts)
48. zowie! did to know
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 12:15 AM
Feb 2016

maybe it will be the MSM that will die. Shame on all media for not covering this. I've about given up on MSNBC. Very grateful for social media.

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
50. There is a discrepancy between what is in the streets
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 12:33 PM
Feb 2016

and what is showing up in black box voting. That's all I'm going to say.

Koinos

(2,792 posts)
51. The crowds need to march to their respective polling places.
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 12:42 PM
Feb 2016

That is how Sanders can win this thing.

Otherwise, it's just a big empty show.

UglyGreed

(7,661 posts)
54. Can't have people seeing
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 01:00 PM
Feb 2016

others believing change can happen. A political revolution might happen and we wouldn't want that now would we..............

MineralMan

(146,338 posts)
58. Cool. I hope they all turn out at their primaries and caucuses.
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 03:56 PM
Feb 2016

The street is one thing. The polling place, though, is more important.

restorefreedom

(12,655 posts)
62. and this right here, is why trump will win if bernie is not the nom
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 04:05 PM
Feb 2016

party politics, THANK GODS, is dying.

people want the estsblishment OUT.

and if they have to vote trump, stein, or write in, by gods this is gonna happen.

the train is coming. we can either nominate our own anti establishment warrior, or watch the end of party politcs AND a major progressive/lib defeat at all levels at the same time

your choice, folks,....

oh and p.s.

fuck the media

felix_numinous

(5,198 posts)
64. It would be a blackout without the internet
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 06:28 PM
Feb 2016

reality would look very different. Not too long ago all the M$M tricks ruled, now the game has changed.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
66. And that does not even count the thousands of supporters
Sun Feb 28, 2016, 06:58 PM
Feb 2016

out walking the streets to knock doors and phone banking this weekend in super Tuesday states.

MSM may not know it yet but in the long run they are going to pay for this. Most of us already think they are not worth watching. I have not had my tv on for months.

But what they do not understand is that they are building distrust. As soon as my contract is up I will not be renewing it. I have my computer, kindle, crossword puzzle books and music to keep me entertained and I do not need them for anything else.

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