Bernie's In

Sanders' fans line up in L.A.
Bernie Sanders has traveled the country much of the summer tapping into liberal grass-roots support. From Madison, Wis., to Seattle, staunchly liberal crowds intrigued by an alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton have arrived by the thousands to hear Sanders speak. And it looks like the rally in L.A. will be no different.



Tonight's rally is in contrast to a low-key meeting Clinton had in L.A. last week with eight women to discuss home healthcare.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is scheduled to speak at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena tonight at a rally in support of his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Sanders plans to discuss getting “big money out of politics”; dealing “with obscene wealth and income inequality”; combating climate change; and making college education affordable, according to the campaign.

Doors will open at 6 p.m., with the program beginning at 7 p.m. Garage parking is available for $25. The campaign is encouraging people to take the Metro Expo Line to the Expo Park/USC Station, one-third of a mile from the Sports Arena.

Sanders, I-Vermont, has introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision, which held that the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting political spending by corporations, associations or labor unions. He has promised that his nominees to the Supreme Court would commit to overturning the Citizens United decision.

Sanders has voted in favor of the DISCLOSE Act, which would prohibit government contractors from spending money on federal campaigns and would create stronger disclosure requirements.

He also has introduced legislation to tax carbon and methane emissions, opposed the Keystone XL pipeline, and inserted a provision in the economic stimulus package for grants to fund energy upgrades for more than 86,000 buildings and the installation of more than 9,500 solar energy systems.

Tonight’s rally concludes a three-day West Coast swing for the 73-year- old Sanders, who would be the nation’s first Jewish president, as well as the first president to be an avowed socialist. He is scheduled to begin his day in Oakland at a news conference organized by National Nurses United, the nation’s largest nurses union.

Nope. I'm in New Jersey.

And from New Jersey...I am guessing I will never have to make that vote...because the majority of Dems surely realize that Sanders would be a disaster for the party.

I may be able to vote for Hillary...or for someone else who knocks her off the ticket...but not Sanders.

The crowds are enormous. This looks like his best crowd ever. I think we'll finally see some diversity from our glowing whiteness as well. Livestreaming in about 30 minutes. The crowds are lined for 2 hrs wait to get in - looks like some will have to be turned away. Thousands were turned away at Portland.

The movement is growing like crazy.

Your air of immutable certainty about this particular thing is bothersome, but even moreso because you seem to think that everyone's going to forget you think Sanders has no chance unless you repeat it every third post or so.

I don't read his **** anymore.

Nobody is going to vote for the known loser, and there's no point in voting for the one that's sure to win by a landslide. We should all stay home that day, right?

I feel we ought to get pissed and vote for Trump.

That's humo - I say, that's funny, boy.

3 hours before Bernie Sanders rally in LA and


Three hours before Bernie Sanders rally in LA and line stretches two city blocks outside Memorial Sports Arena. pic.twitter.com/ROWlOkU8rs

4:22 PM - 10 Aug 2015
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A Bernie Sanders Shocker Is Coming

In two appearances in recent days, in Washington State and Oregon, Bernie Sanders drew massive crowds of supporters that were larger—for these two speeches alone—-than the combined crowds of every Republican and Democrat running for president added together over the entire weekend.

First, on Saturday night, a spectacular crowd of 15,000 people turned out for a Sanders rally at the Alaska Airlines Arena in Seattle. And then, on Sunday, Sanders roused a humongous crowd at the Moda Center in Portland, estimated in The Oregonian to be 28,000.

For serious analysts of politics the summer belongs to Sanders—and no other candidate can come even close to the size of his crowds or the clarity, passion and idealism of his message. The Republican campaign has become a reality television show while the Sanders campaign offers the reality of a surging movement of progressive politics, progressive organization and progressive inspiration that is transforming American politics under the radar of the national political media.

Remember where you heard it first: When the next quarterly campaign finance reports are released in October the political world will be shocked by the breathtaking increase in small donor money to the Sanders campaign.

Read more at: http://tr.im/E9ZHs

Wow...Portland event estimated at 28,000 attendees. Anyone still care to insist that "Bernie will not be the nominee"?

Even thought it's still way early, I personally think Bernie already has the Democratic nomination in the bag, baring any vote tampering. I think the Clinton camp knows that as well, as do her Wall St. benefactors. Prepare for things to get even uglier. #Bernie2016 #FeelTheBern

By the time Washington and Oregon vote in the primaries, Sanders may have already been mathematically eliminated as the nominee based on delegates. Large crowds in left leaning states that are late in the nomination process don't point to Sanders winning when Clinton still is polling over 50% nationwide.

Sanders appears to be bent on visiting all the states. He has been in Texas and some southern states also.

27000 in LA. Sarah Silverman opened for him.

27000

Here is a comparison to Obama's campaign



guardian.co.uk

Yes, but the polling in the early states shows Hillary leading by 27 points in Iowa, just a few in NH which isn't many delegates and by 70 points in SC.

If the rest of the south is similar to SC, Super Tuesday will leave Clinton with a rather large lead.

Clinton lost 10 % of supporters in a relative short time while Sanders gained
another 11 % and is at 25 % now. He's catching up nicely.

Too many naysayers are acting as if today's polls are what will determine the outcome of the primaries. The primaries are not today.