Something interesting just showed up on Sanders' map...

[Barack_America]

GOTV centers. All over the state of Ohio. Added just within the past hour or two.

http://map.berniesanders.com

To me, it says they feel pretty confident about MO and IL, and that they feel they can take OH if they get their people out to vote.

If Clinton's ground game is the same one I saw in Michigan last week (i.e. non-existent), she has no chance to rival Sanders' GOTV effort.

What do you all make of this?

[Merryland]

3. are you kidding? never heard about the Arkansas thing - is that for real??

[lakeguy]

5. Arkansas blood scandal link

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=3732

[Ed Suspicious]

18. Why was the first poster hidden for speaking of the link you just presented? What a stupid place

this can be.

[Cassiopeia]

21. The truth is even worse than the GOP lies

and her supporters are having trouble embracing it.

[Feeling the Bern]

29. HRC supporters are amazing. They keep defending the indefensible and when they and their

candidate are called on it, they run to the jury and back to the HRC to complain.

[revbones]

33. Hillary supporters can't handle it

Here's their little comment about it I think: http://www.democraticunderground.com/110772656

[kgnu_fan]

31. wow...

[Waiting For Everyman]

37. Here's a link to the Arkansas poison blood thread on DU.

See post #1.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511486981

It's the most callous thing I've seen here in quite a while that the first reply in this thread we're posting in now was hidden. Read the poison blood post I linked and then tell me that their feelings aren't justified and shouldn't be given a lot of empathetic leeway today, and for however long it takes to come.

Besides which, they posted the truth. There's no legitimate reason the truth should be hidden here.

[saltpoint]

2. Can't speak to the particulars of

the two candidates' ground games but would just say that in recent days Trump has taken to blaming Bernie Sanders for sending protestors to his (Trump's) rallies.

Donald Trump is dead wrong on a great many things. This is one of them.

[bvar22]

4. If Sanders or his campaign...

..attempted to get me to go to a Trump Rally, that would cause me to withdraw my support for him.
I believe he has way too much integrity to do something that perverted.

Low level campaign volunteers might take it on their own to do this,
but they are risking life and limb to do so, and for what benefit to the Sanders Campaign?

If anything these are either normal protesters who have made the decision to do this themselves, or a Trump False Flag scam.
After all, he IS a showman, con man, and provocateur who needs targets to blame for our country's problems.

[Peace Patriot]

8. Trump decided to hold one of his hate rallies on a Chicago university campus.

Students there and other Chicagoans were outraged. I read one poster here who said she'd been hearing local people talk about it on the radio all week before that protest, gathering steam to go there and voice their objections. It had nothing to do with the Sanders campaign, according to her, and everything to do with local pride and a desire to oppose racism. Some Sanders supporters were there but there are millions of Sanders supporters and some of them would naturally wish to join an anti-racist action.

Because of this report about local radio stations (and also some interviews of protestors), I think the false flag idea is probably not true. You never know with Trump, but I think this one was genuine outrage that he would dare to do this in their community and on their campus.

I would suspect, too, that, being young, they didn't think it through very well, as to Trump supporters' retaliation or their own safety. (Lord, the things that my son did when he was that age, without heed to his own safety, were hair-raising. And I was oblivious to mortality myself at that age!)

I wonder why no one has mentioned the university authorities who permitted a Trump rally on campus. Perhaps their hands were tied by free speech rules. If you ban Trump, you'd have to ban everybody else. Thus, liberals get trapped by their own ideals when nazis come crawling out of the woodwork. It's a dilemma, for sure. And the kids just cut right through it all and voiced their objections and took the risks to do that. Crazy courage.

[SoapBox]

13. ^ This ^

I agree.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Trump doesn't deal in facts or logic, but he is very good at pushing buttons

He pushed the "commie" button and attempted to fabricate a link of violence to Sanders.

But Trump is not a seasoned pro at this kind of thing (doesn't have much of a ground game, I think). He's an entertainer who has tapped into a dangerous vein of anger and racism. I am sure that he is not a thinker and thus doesn't introspect much, so I am sure that he is not fully aware of what he is doing or how dangerous it is. Or he thinks he can control it.

But eventually, if enough people allow it to get far enough (by voting or not voting), it will control him, in the sense that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[elmac]

30. Big Ed just shut down Crystal Wright on his RT show

she was blaming Bernie for seeding Trump rallies, pretty much told her to shut up & wouldn't put up with her right wing crap, never seen him so mad. Don't think she will be on again.

[LiberalArkie]

26. There were more than likely Bernie, Clinton supporters, I saw some with BLM shirts, if Webb and

O'Malley were still in the race some of there supporters were there also.

[Kittycat]

28. They were both. On the public FB page, there was actually a post

Reminding people that it wasn't about promoting candidates. I think one of the mods was a little annoyed that it may distract or possibly didn't agree with someone. I didn't see any of the candidate specific posts, so I'm not sure if they were removed or bounced to lower than my nosiness cared to scroll.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

39. Trump wants these protesters. He knew this would happen.

The Republicans normally never hold rallies in the city, it's always in a Republican burb. Don't know if he thinks he's getting sympathy or what.

[Barack_America]

14. ? Unclear what this has to do with GOTV centers.

[bvar22]

16. It was supposed to be a response to post #2,

not the OP.

My bad....too many tabs open.

[Kittycat]

27. What are you talking about? It was all over the news the moment

He applied for the space. Faculty and students appealed to the dean to withdraw his request, in good old Chicago style - they mobilized fast. There was no hiding were it stemmed from. They had a Facebook page that was public for everyone to read. Community members rallied in support. Local organizations at the center of trumps attack joined them, and they did it. Some protesters got in lines, some met on the street and other marched from the quad. It was on radio, tv - social media, everywhere for a week leading up to it. You literally had to be ignoring it, the. Refuse to read a news article that wasn't free republic or breitbart to not to know about it.

[jillan]

38. The protest being organized in Phoenix this weekend when Trump visits is from both candidates'

supporters.

It's not a Bernie supporter or a Hillary supporter thing.

People are organizing on facebook and going. They were calling into our local liberal talk show telling everyone about the protest.

I'm not going - Az is an open carry state & there are a lot of white supremacists in this state.
This old lady is staying home

[Lorien]

6. I'm in Florda and I haven't heard a peep from Clintonistas here

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but I've had two calls from Bernie phone bankers and two door canvassers, so team Bernie is on it!

[Barack_America]

9. Awesome!

Great news. They must have loved knocking on your door!

[Cassiopeia]

34. Same here.

I was texted, emailed and called today by the Bernie campaign. I have never had any candidate call me in my entire voting history.

I've seen nothing from Clinton here in SWFL. I've seen Bernie booths at flea markets, groups at major intersections cheering with signs etc, and people handing out bumper stickers on street corners.

Bernie has a serious ground game.

[marions ghost]

35. excellent!

[kerry-is-my-prez]

40. To be honest, most Dems don't bother with this area, except for Sarasota - it's pretty Republican.

Sarasota kicks ass though!! I live in Naples where there's never much going on. We did have some people in wheelchairs and walkers protesting Cheney here though. (I was with them). The cops tried to arrest some 80 year old man who turned out to be a former admiral. The cops and Cheney people looked like total idiots trying to harrass people in walkers.

[wilsonbooks]

7. We have a vote center here in Joplin with a staffer running it.

Bernie has a great team.

[Barack_America]

10. Fantastic news.

Any idea what they're up to at these centers? How long they've been going?

[wilsonbooks]

11. Joplin is phone banking to Sander's supporters to make sure they vote tomorrow.

The staffer arrived in the last few days.

[Barack_America]

12. Cool. I figured that 18+ GOTV centers couldn't have opened just today.

They just didn't want to advertise what they were up to until this afternoon.

I like it. I imagine many of the staffers from the MI offices headed down there.

[SusanCalvin]

15. One thing worries me.

I don't think they're paying enough attention to early voting. I'd be happy to be corrected.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. That is some ground game

And from some of the things being said by both campaigns, OH is definitely in play.

[PatrickforO]

19. Something that makes me happy, since I'm very much for

Bernie.

[2banon]

20. thanks for posting this map, it guided me directly to a bernie tabling event 3 blocks from house!

on this city island in the bay area. <3 <3 <3

[Barack_America]

23. Great.

Yeah, that's how I found (and signed up for) my canvassing event before the MI primary.

[2banon]

24. I think I'll post it on my facebook after the results come in tomorrow.

pins and needles for the outcome, we need big wins to beat that machine.

[bvf]

22. Fantastic! n/t

[reddread]

32. toast is Berning

[senz]

36. Makes me very hopeful.

Thanks, Barack_America!