Nothing to See Here: On Pooh-Poohing Sanders’ Surging Crowds
In Phoenix, Arizona, on July 18, he drew 11,000 people, setting a new record for 2016 presidential candidates. His record continued in Seattle with 15,000 supporters, and then in Portland with 28,000 supporters. In Los Angeles on August 10, Sanders drew about 27,500 supporters, according to the Sanders campaign.
But for Washington Post columnist Philip Bump (8/12/15), those numbers “don’t matter much.”
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Another Post columnist, Chris Cillizza (8/10/15), also attributes Sanders’ crowds to the cities being majority liberal, writing, “Portland is a known den of progressivism where President Obama drew massive crowds during his 2008 campaign.”
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If Sanders’ rallies, like Obama’s, are signs of a growing movement, why do the Post’s columnists focus their articles on doubting the political potential of that movement and hailing the inevitability of Hillary Clinton?
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My fat ass, we do!
reporters forgot to mention the 100,000 supporters that were in town halls across the country, which I attended in Delaware.
And there employees of Jeff Bezo's, no wonder, and just for good measure, they like to marginalize whenever they write a piece or speak when on TEEEEEE VEEEEEEEEEE about Bernie and hype Clinton.
They want everyone to know that they know who is best for the democrats and they want this show to play to there game of hypocrisy-----------
Well boy's you really are lost in the woods and don't know a tree from the forest do you-----------------
By the way Chris and Philip just maybe you should go on the Bernie web site and see that he has or is hosting a rally in Alabama, you know that liberal bastion
And just for fun boys this is the sticker I have on the back of my car-------------see below
Honk --------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
