How the Bernie Sanders campaign became a force to be reckoned with

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Dan Roberts in Manchester, New Hampshire

If the revolution rolls on much longer, Bernie Sanders will no longer need to finish his speeches at all. He may simply be able to rely on the audience to supply the punchlines.

“Who is the biggest welfare recipient in America?” he asked a rally in Rindge on Saturday. “Walmart,” they booed in unison, eagerly anticipating his now familiar critique of the retailer’s low pay.

“What happened to the banks?” he mused in Manchester two days later. “They stole the country, the assholes,” shouted a voice from the crowd, with only minor embellishment of the intended homily on Wall Street greed.

Though the content has changed little since he first challenged Hillary Clinton for the Democratic party nomination in May last year, what began as a set of lectures full of rhetorical questions has evolved into call-and-response pantomime.

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