2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forum218,000 tuned in tonight to hear Bernie without any ads leading up to it..almost a 1/4 mil...
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)He would have lost by 3.5 Million votes, instead of 3.7 million.
NanceGreggs
(27,815 posts)rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)modern world. But you rejoice because you knew to side with the Wealthy and Powerful. Knowing they would use their wealth to buy victory. How sad that you care nothing about democracy but only winning. You side with the Oligarchy only to be able to gloat. Those struggling among us will suffer as your friends the big corporations make bigger and bigger profits.
sheshe2
(83,788 posts)of siding with the wealthy and powerful. You accuse us of siding "
Are you unemployed and uninsured now? Are you? I am. Didn't I read you vaca'ed in Europe recently? In my eyes, from where I stand, that puts you in the 1%.
I do believe you need to rethink you manta. You do not know us and have no dayum right to judge us. Trust me. You are NOT a better person than I am.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)It is not rocket science to see that the wealthy have been changing laws and regulations to reduce their tax burden. They are hiding much of their assets off-shore. They have tripled their wealth in the last 30 years, not from hard work, but from avoiding paying their share of taxes. The working class has lost ground in the last 30 years. The wealthy are using our tax money to move their companies to countries where they can use slave labor.
The reason this primary has been so contentious is that those of us that want change have to fight against other Democrats that want to stay with the status quo. If they wanted change, why are they fighting the progressives so bitterly?
I have not been to Europe recently. And I have family and close friends that have either lost their home (thanks banksters) and or jobs. Others that are terribly under employed.
eastwestdem
(1,220 posts)MaeScott
(878 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)to ignore.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)It wasn't close.
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)more than 69 million people voted Democratic in the 2008 presidential election, and 65 million in 2012 ... I'd say that even if those 218,000 don't vote this year, it will be pretty insignificant.
218,000 is three-one-hundredths of one percent of the average Democratic voting population.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)who tuned in to that speech on the fly. And many Pacific time weren't home yet from work.
Math can be kind of sketchy sometimes ....like in the voting process don't you agree...
frazzled
(18,402 posts)And the more he pulls stunts like this, the more will wander off.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)It's actually pretty scientific.
sheshe2
(83,788 posts)I have no clue what your statement is suppose to mean. The primary is over. He lost.
zappaman
(20,606 posts)Of the Berlin Wall.
There were more people at that show, so...
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)zappaman
(20,606 posts)SFnomad
(3,473 posts)That would be well within the margin of error (if there was one) ... which means 0 people could have been watching.
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)so.........
SFnomad
(3,473 posts)And then someone brings you back to reality and you have a sad.
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)that is a huge drop off
bkkyosemite
(5,792 posts)redstateblues
(10,565 posts)which is not very much. A lot of the debates got way more than that
slipslidingaway
(21,210 posts)deathrind
(1,786 posts)Impressive. Bernie has always had a pretty good turn out to his events.
"California is clearly Feeling The Bern. A recent rally in Sacramento, over 20,000 people attended to support Bernie Sanders, as we expected not one major media channel was there to report on this event."
For contrast:
"On the other hand, Hillary also had a recent rally in Oakland. This rally had only 800 people in attendance, which did receive major media coverage."
840high
(17,196 posts)MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)into irrelevancy. I almost shed a fake tear.
corkhead
(6,119 posts)of the dump you took on this thread.
Surya Gayatri
(15,445 posts)200,000+ people log on to hear defeated candidate rehash his dead-horse stump speech.
So what?
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)glennward
(989 posts)He wasted valuable time repeating his stump speech in the beginning. When it sounded so familiar most viewer including the networks covering him tuned out. The ones that tuned out missed the most important part of his speech about voting and participating in state and local elections. After all that is where any true solutions will be started.
Wednesdays
(17,380 posts)Reminds me of a quote attributed to Yogi Berra,
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)oh well, had to sleep anyway and it was easy to view the rerun. Sanders did great, he will be right there standing shoulder to shoulder with all our party team.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)scscholar
(2,902 posts)to watch video. I'm stuck in the CONservative-ruled Seattle which has crappy Internet access because those Republicans hate the Internet. Hate the Internet. I hate dial-up at home right now. They hate the Internet so much. And, Microsoft's anti-Internet stance just makes it worse. Microsoft hates the Internet.