48,000 has got to be the LARGEST Political Rally in America EVER

[FreakinDJ]

Beat that Hillary

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

1. On CNN at a 100-300 person rally in the Bronx...

The reporter said literally, "She could do big rallies like Sanders if she wanted to..."

[cui bono]

13. That's what the Hillary group said. They had the most hilarious OP about how she prefers "quiet"

meetings so she can listen to people.

Then it turned out the pic used in that meme was with campaign people or something, can't remember, but it was so funny. As if they don't want 27,000 people showing up to a rally. Give me a break.

.

[Zira]

67. rofl

now that is funnny

Yeah, Hillary likes a quiet lunch with her wealthiest supporters, not one of those loud rally events with the 99%. She got 1% of what Bernie got tonight for a reason. And, that's if I round up.

[dinkytron]

51. I HEARD THAT TOO.. Comical.

[Nyan]

76. You know what? I'm not even gonna call them American Pravda anymore.

They're too stupid to be taken seriously. What the fuck.

[Matt_in_STL]

2. Nope - we drew 100,000 for Obama in St. Louis in 2008

I was front row, almost center for that one. Got some great pictures that day.

[Gwhittey]

7. That was a GE one was it not?

Primary is a ton harder to pull large numbers off.

[Matt_in_STL]

17. It absolutely was the GE and I agree - primaries are a different ballgame altogether

[bkkyosemite]

23. And it was a home run tonight for Bernie YES!!!

[delrem]

65. I think Obama won the whole world well before the GE.

His crowds were world-wide.

Sanders' crowds aren't like that.
That was pure magic.

I do think though that Bernie Sanders will make a better successor to Obama than Hillary Clinton.
I think people know this.
I think Hillary Clinton will bring a massive setback. Just massive.
People know this.

[The Old Lie]

88. I agree.

Pulling off 48k is incredible in the primaries.

And they are (hopefully) all Democrats eligible to vote for Bernie.

[morningfog]

8. And he got 70+ in the NW, don't remember where exactly.

[BeyondGeography]

19. Portland

[morningfog]

21. That's it. I have several images from 2008 saved in my desktop.

That's the one I remembered.

[berniepdx420]

53. I was there.. so much fun..

Bernie's had two sell outs at the Moda Center (indoor event) here in Portland this year. I bet, in May, Bernie will have a rally at the same spot on the banks of the Willamette River, shown above..and the crowd will be even larger

[UMTerp01]

56. Obama doing that in the new age of Twitter and Facebook was amazing

Social media hadn't yet had the impact it has today so for Obama to draw the crowds he did in those days was amazing.

[MFM008]

80. he lost Missouri x 2 in the GE

100,000 or not, people that don't show up at rallies vote as well.

[Matt_in_STL]

82. Cool, you found a way to shit on both Obama and Sanders for something cool

Your mom must be proud.

[msongs]

3. behind by more than 2 million votes bernie draws a crowd before heading to rome nt

[Fawke Em]

12. Tired of this meme.

Many caucuses don't report individual voter totals, only delegate counts.

For example, more than 540 people in Alaska voted in the Democratic primary, but that's the number you see when you look it up.

It's far, far less than 2 million.

[Agschmid]

30. I agree.

[roguevalley]

86. over 10 thousand voted in alaska including me

[Joob]

4. Bernie so good he makes history before he's president

[COLGATE4]

5. Now, if only rallies were votes. Oh...

[RandySF]

6. Obama Rally Draws 100,000 in Missouri

Barack Obama attracted 100,000 people at a Saturday rally here, his biggest crowd ever at a U.S. event.

The crowd assembled under the Gateway Arch on a sunny Saturday afternoon to hear Obama speak about taxes and slam the Republicans on economic issues.

Lt. Samuel Dotson of the St. Louis Police Department confirmed the number of attendees piled into the grassy lawn by the Mississippi River.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2008/10/18/obama-rally-draws-100000-in-missouri/

[jillan]

10. Lol - that was a couple of weeks before the election. This is just one state, one primary.

[RandySF]

11. "48,000 has got to be the LARGEST Political Rally in America EVER"

[FreakinDJ]

26. What is the Most Hillary has ever drawn 5000 ???

[northernsouthern]

37. Boom!

Cut it, print it, this thread is done!

[RandySF]

41. I like the sound of 2.4 million better.

That's Hillary's raw vote margin over Bernie.

[dchill]

52. Umpteen- thousandth time that false metric has been chucked out.

I would Berniesplain it to you, but you already know all about it. It's just cheap hackery. And it's about delegates, not votes.

[delrem]

68. I'll Berniesplain it: Sanders got a MASSIVE crowd, running up to the NY primary,

in the heart of NYC.

Hillary got nothing.

And the primary is happening in less than a week.

There, a complete Berniepictorialsplain. Deluxe.

-----hey, where'd he go???

[dchill]

69. You just made my day!

Where'd he go, indeed!

[bvf]

54. Speaking of the insubstantial,

you may as well have said you like the smell of your own farts.

At least you can verify those.

[berniepdx420]

58. Wrong again RandySF.. you're quit good at being wrong...

[BeanMusical]

61. One of the best, really.

If being wrong was a professional sport Rand would be investigated for using performance-enhancing drugs.

[dchill]

70. It's just a sound. A whisper in the dark.

And, as you know, a lie.

[northernsouthern]

81. Just cause you like it...

...doesn't make it true.

BTW are you including all of the tossed independent votes from all over the US that got tossed by the DNC, or are you including all of the ballot harvesting by the HRC? Remind me again why is it a good thing your candidate does bet in closed primaries or states with low voter turn out? That helps her win the election some how right?

[onehandle]

9. Proportionally, Nader drew more.

His Presidency was EPIC!

[FreakinDJ]

15. Fairly Lame redirect

But good luck on that Honesty thingy

[morningfog]

22. Huh? Proportionally?

[yourpaljoey]

14. WOW!!!

[JonLeibowitz]

16. I haven't seen a source for 48,000. The campaign is saying 27,000

I know people are crediting the NYPD for the figure, but have not seen any reliable source for that claim.

[FreakinDJ]

24. MSNBC reporting

[Segami]

27. I have been reading that the NYPD is claiming 48k in the 'area'. Only let 27k into the 'park'

Fire Marshall concerns...


So the park maxed out at 27K with 21K refused entry.....

[nygurl]

31. Sources for what NYPD is claiming, please n/t

[Segami]

42. I never said it was an official source or I would have posted the link...

[nygurl]

18. Inflation

All of these inflated estimates come from the campaign itself. ABC news estimated 6,500 inside the park and an additional 5,000 outside the park.

[Ed Suspicious]

33. 6500? Get real.

[Trajan]

36. This is one of the fresh new Hillary posters ...

They are all the rage this week ...

[HooptieWagon]

49. Another one of Brock's socks?

I guess he added a bunch of temps to the payroll.

[iAZZZo]

64. the call went out earlier - during the rally - about "whore": from twitter

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[nygurl]

40. Not my reality.

See ABC news posts. Alternately, please provide non-campaign sources, such as NYPD.

[Ed Suspicious]

43. I think the number was more like 300, just look at the pictures. Any fool can see hardly anyone

showed up to the rally.

[TheBlackAdder]

46. Sources for what ABC is claiming, please (Don't hold one to a standard that you don't follow) n/t

[nygurl]

50. Here ya go.

http://abc7ny.com/politics/bernie-sanders-holds-big-rally-in-washington-square-park/1288865/

[JesterCS]

59. Lol

You can't count more than that in the pictures

[SoLeftIAmRight]

62. you have no clue

the number released is only the people that sign the data sheets

many people do not sign

lol - welcome - you will be another of the funny ones

[brooklynite]

20. She will...on Tuesday

[FreakinDJ]

29. How much it cost to get all those people to show up

[Nye Bevan]

25. Easy for people who have plenty of free time on their hands to go to those events.

Students, for example. For folks who actually have jobs to do (often more than one) and kids to take care of, it's a little harder.

[frylock]

28. Yeah. Get a job, hippies.

[FreakinDJ]

32. Really - Goldman Sachs employees work multiple jobs

[JonLeibowitz]

60. Yes, they do. I imagine you'll want an example. Well, Hillary Clinton is running for President.

Part-time.

[Ed Suspicious]

34. Condescending bullshit.

[northernsouthern]

39. The irony.

HRC has a strong base in wealthy, older and retired...so the people with disposable income with more time on their hands. When I was in school I was at the lab or shop until 1 AM and I worked two jobs. Blue collar and hard workers are actually Bernie's forte, but you know that, just ask your nanny, fitness trainer, life coach, or landscaper who they are voting for.

[Nye Bevan]

44. Her biggest margin of victory to date has been in Mississippi.

A state well known for having lots of wealthy people with plenty of time on their hands.

[northernsouthern]

57. Good point.

Ahhhh Mississippi? Is that the LGBT friendly state?
http://www.newsweek.com/mississippi-anti-lgbt-law-hb-1523-bible-446297
Or is that the racially friendly one?
http://www.thetoptens.com/most-racists-states-us/
Was that the one they did that great movie about Mississippi Burning? I don't think it was a play on Bernie though...something else, did have to do with a jewish guy right?
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/slain-civil-rights-workers-found
Maybe it is the Mississippi that supported miscegenation?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/12/interracial-marriage-deep-south_n_1339827.html
Or was that the Mississippi that voted on the day Hillary got the largest victory upset in polling history?
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/03/08/democrats_clinton_and_sanders_run_in_michigan_and_mississippi_primaries.html
Maybe that is Mississippi with the highest voter turn out in their primary history?
(51% of 2012)

So in this case I would say while the richer areas were around the 80% mark for HRC, and some of the areas with Bernie support were in the 60%...other areas where also lower for Bernie that were not richer. So if it is not money this time around, and they had issues with voting since the removal of the Voting Rights Act...it must be something else? Hillary must speak to the state in some other way? Not sure what it is? You would think a state with such liberal views would side with the most liberal candidate. I am sure I am missing something. Also if every poll says she wins the rich older demographic, and you are saying that is not the case in Mississippi, are you saying all of Mississippi is dirt poor?

Also this is good for HRC
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/01/voter-turnout-income_n_2790755.html

[Lazy Daisy]

63. Did you use a paddle with that spanking

Bet that left a nasty red mark.

[Art_from_Ark]

73. We used to call it the "Board of Education"

I hope someone got educated with that particular "paddle"

[amborin]

35. K&R

[beedle]

38. Hillay supporter loses his "mind".

https://twitter.com/goodbyethirdway/status/720454234337095681?s=09

Compares it to Nazi rally?!

[TheBlackAdder]

48. Was some protester beaten up? The supremacists tend to do that!

[MattP]

45. One of the biggest ever

:rof

[kgnu_fan]

47. kick

[workinclasszero]

55. She will beat it

At the ballot box!

[jfern]

66. Prospect Park Sunday might break that

It's a pretty big park.

[flamingdem]

72. Woo hoo Bernies homies will have to attend

That means Brooklyn, almost all of it, go NY!

[Recursion]

75. Prospect Park has a better shot of reaching Obama levels of attendance

I love that park.

[SunSeeker]

71. It was actually estimated at 11,500.

Sanders held a rally in Washington Square Park, which was closed all day Wednesday at the request of the Secret Service. 6,500 people were estimated to be in the park for the rally with an additional 5,000 supporters outside the park for a total of 11,500.

http://abc7ny.com/politics/bernie-sanders-holds-big-rally-in-washington-square-park/1288865/

[anotherproletariat]

78. Still respectable... nt

[Recursion]

74. Obama pulled 100k+ I think 3 times

But they were all in the general. This is from memory, but I think his primary max was about 60K. In a state he lost, it may be important to remember (PA).

[BeanMusical]

77. Kick!

[pnwmom]

79. I wonder how many of them are registered Dems?

[nc4bo]

83. Kicking. There are those whose only purpose is to distract from the optics of this event.nt

[beaglelover]

84. She is beating St Bernard, thank you very much!!!!

[Nanjeanne]

85. Hillarys event was open to the public with no fee. She could have had as many as

Had wanted to go. Room not big enough? She could have had overflow like Bernie.

I don't care about any of this crap. I do care she is a corporate shill ( see I didn't say the w word).

But why she has to always spin everything is beyond me.

[Avalux]

87. That's incredible!

Revolution happening, choose to ignore at your peril.