Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Bernie Sanders spoke Saturday to a half-empty gymnasium

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at Benedict College in South Carolina. The school is historically black, but the crowd appeared to be largely white.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/14/opinion/charles-m-blow-bernie-sanders-and-the-black-vote.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur&_r=1

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1. LOL, Charles M. Blow.

It's OK, he spoke to over 9,000 North Carolinians last night, in a venue that holds under 5,000. Hopefully SC will get with the program...

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2. +1000

[SouthernProgressive]

3. I have been told this is how we judge success.

Then again, those same people must view Beck as a God considering some of the events he has pulled off.

[haikugal]

4. Didn't I see this same post before?

[demwing]

6. anything to distract and detract from the fact

that Bernie is winning IA and NH, and is sharply on the rise in SC.

[haikugal]

7. So transparent...do they know we can see them?

[workinclasszero]

5. Not feelin the bern

in South Carolina?

[cyberswede]

8. That's it then. Let's take him out back and kick the crap out of him. Loser.

But seriously:

There is an earnest, if snappy, aura to Sanders that is laudable and refreshing. One doesn’t sense the stench of ambition or the revolting unctuousness of incessant calculation. There is an idealistic crusader in the man, possibly to the point of being quixotic, but at least it doesn’t come off as corrupted by money or power or the God complex that so often attends those in pursuit of the seat behind the Resolute Desk.

and

Sanders seemed to understand the challenge ahead of him. He has to win the African-Americans who supported Obama and do so against Clinton’s enormous name identification and the deep connections the Clinton machine has built in the state. And then there’s Biden.