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Associated Press
Sanders' unexpectedly strong showing has not gone unnoticed by Clinton's team. Her aides have signaled that they consider Sanders to be a legitimate challenger who will be running for the long haul, noting the $15.2 million he's raised, largely from small donors, in the first three months of the race. They believe he will find a measure of support in Iowa, where the caucus system typically turns out the most passionate voters, and New Hampshire, given Sanders' many years representing neighboring Vermont in Congress.
The Washington meeting struck a sharp contrast with Clinton's carefully stage-managed events. Host Manisha Sharma said she stayed awake until 2 a.m. cleaning the one-bedroom apartment, carefully storing odds and ends in cardboard organic milk boxes from Costco tucked into a wooden bookshelf. Beers were piled into a kitchen sink and a card table set up next to a small bathroom served as a bar.
After Sanders spoke Sharma presented him with a poster featuring a photo of Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March, the first major act in his campaign against British rule of India.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win," she told him, quoting Gandhi. "That's what you'll do."
http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015/07/29/sanders-rallies-supporters-in-nationwide-simulcast
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NBC in San Diego CA
The Sanders campaign said more than 105,000 backers attended 3,500 meetings in homes, coffee shops, union halls and town squares, an effort to spread the message of his insurgent bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
In San Diego, more than 700 people were expected to pack into the North Park Observatory Theater to show their support and watch Sanders on the big screen. Organizers say they have had to change venues three times as they gathered more RSVPs.
“I’m thrilled by the enthusiasm I’ve seen from San Diegans," said local organizer Aaron Truax in a news release. "Sanders’ message resonates strongly here and in many communities across the country. He’s the only presidential candidate who’s taking an active stance against the billionaire class, and standing up for wage earners. He wants money out of politics, and he means it."
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http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/San-Diegans-Gather-for-Nationwide-Bernie-Sanders-Simulcast-319763001.html#ixzz3hNseXsy8
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TulsaWorld - (Oklahoma)
About 150 people turned up at the Transport Workers Union hall in far northeast Tulsa on Wednesday night for what the Sanders’ camp called the largest organizing event of the year, a national video conference involving more than 3,000 sites and 100,000 participants.
http://www.tulsaworldtv.com/?ndn.trackingGroup=91468&ndn.siteSection=tulsa_nws_pol_sty_pp&ndn.videoId=29456746&freewheel=91468&sitesection=tulsa_nws_pol_sty_pp&vid=29456746
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/elections/bernie-sanders-organizational-meetings-draw-about-in-tulsa/article_31995bfc-39ea-5b37-b054-4cf2da2321f9.html
NYTimes - First Draft
Indeed, on what the campaign is calling one of the most important days of its upstart movement, Mr. Sanders came to this small apartment in southwest Washington, looked into a camera and spoke live to what his campaign said was more than 100,000 supporters nationwide.
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/07/30/sanders-hosts-a-nationwide-house-party-for-over-100000-would-be-foot-soldiers/
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