WashPo: Bernie Sanders draws 28,000 people in Portland, his campaign says —

[LiberalElite]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/08/10/bernie-sanders-draws-28000-people-in-portland-his-campaign-says/

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Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders, who has been drawing eye-poppingly large crowds on the campaign trail, on Sunday night attracted his largest audience yet: about 28,000 people in Portland, Ore., according to his campaign.

Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont who has emerged as the leading alternative to Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination, appeared at a Portland arena with a capacity close to 20,000, aides said. An additional 8,000 people gathered in overflow areas set up for the event, aides said, citing numbers provided by officials from the venue.
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Feelin' that BERN baby!!!!!!!!

xposted in LBN but got locked - Forgotheconsequences posted same thing around 12:30 a.m. So, I kicked it up.

[merrily]

1. 28,000! ! !

Does anyone know if Senator No Name Recognition has run any ads yet?

I have not seen any in Boston.

[peacebird]

2. :) why waste the money, he's doing fine with the free coverage!

[merrily]

3. Gosh darn it, people like him. I was just wondering.

[cantbeserious]

4. No Citizen Need Settle For The Lesser Of Two Corporate Evils - Go Bernie Go

eom

[rurallib]

5. some repugs couldn't draw 28

even if they had an event at their parents' house.

[Divernan]

24. Speaking of Rick Santorum . . . . .

[daleanime]

27. Please don't....

I'm eating.

[restorefreedom]

36. lol. nt

[A Simple Game]

6. So when will the national media start covering him? When he fills 100,000 seat stadiums?

Media in this Country is a farce. Everyone of them is a propaganda unit for corporations. When we retake the Country, breakup of the media conglomerates needs to be one of the first priorities.

[kracer20]

9. Yep, media is a joke

I've been listening to Morning Joe go on and on about Trump and Fox news. He was saying that the RNC wouldn't allow MSNBC to host a debate, then sort of under his breath said that "pretty soon I would, things are changing pretty quickly at this network"

Sounds to me like MSNBC is transforming in to FOX.

[A Simple Game]

11. Yeah the glimmer of hope for MSNBC started fading back when Donahue was fired.

It's not even about ratings, it has become almost pure propaganda and fluff. I can't believe how all of the networks latch onto tragic, but what used to be just local, stories and bleed them for days on end as if there is nothing else worth airing. It's not just one, they all grab onto the same stories. Used to be Andy Rooney was the only one that did local stories on a national show and that was always a feel good story not a disaster. I grew up on Cronkite so I can see the difference, but younger people probably have no idea what they are being fed.

[icarusxat]

57. MSNBC...

Mostly
Stupid
News
about
the
Bush
Campaign

[valerief]

21. You mean State News aka Oligarchy News? Never. nt

[bbgrunt]

55. yes, but don't tell them yet. The week after Dean

claimed he would break up media, his scream was all over the news.

[RoccoR5955]

7. Bern baby Bern!

#FeeltheBern

[djean111]

8. Any bets on how long it takes to see "his campaign SAYS", elsewhere.

Early this morning, I saw a thread dismissed by a usual suspect, with a one-word "right".

A word popped into my head - derailleur - to change to another track, usually used as a description for a bicycle gear mechanism. Now - this word just comes to me every time I see an attempt made to derail a thread - thread-jacking, jeering at sources, one-word or emoticon posts trying to do the same thing. Now, it is just funny and telling and illustrative. So if I just post "derailleur fail", I am not just thinking I am in a bicycle group!

This is so wonderful about these crowds! And it is all word of mouth, pretty much. No help from the media. I hope someone is passing out information on how to register, how to change registration if necessary, when the primary is for that state. Because I suspect that many people who are fairly new to the political process might be under the impression that they can just wait until November 2016 and vote for Bernie. And many people do not really check this stuff out on the net.

[KoKo]

12. ....! Derailleur...

[ananda]

14. Sanders will not be derailled!

..

[Divernan]

15. They've got nothing but "HRC talks to 60 millionaires on private estate".

http://fox13now.com/2015/08/05/hillary-clinton-in-utah-for-fundraiser/

PARK CITY, Utah — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton visited Utah Wednesday for a fundraising event.

The fundraiser was held at a private residence in the Glenwild gated community in Park City.
Littlefield estimated 60 people attended an early rally that cost $2700 a head, and more attended the larger event, paying $500 each. If those estimates are true, then the event raised more than $200,000 for the Clinton campaign.

(Doing the math: 60 at$2700 each =s $162,000. $38,000 @ $500 each =s another 76 people for a grand total of 136 payees.)

[djean111]

17. I have been wondering - does anybody really sincerely and lucidly believe that this enthusiasm

for Bernie would be the same for Hillary, if she is the nominee? I do not. A visit from Bernie and Elizabeth Warren could not make me enthusiastic about Hillary. Or any other candidate, really. I love Bernie's differences, and, these days, just being a Democrat ain't what is used to be. The Dem platform is as disregarded as an old peeling deck, just gussied up with new paint at election time.

[artislife]

38. I don't think

all his supporters are transferable.

I believe that if he is the nom, we will get more real progressives down the ticket. If she is the nom, I think we won't.

[merrily]

42. Definitely not. Many had already left the Party or were always Indies.

There's been a lot of discussion on social media about making sure you re-register to vote however you need to in your state in order to be able to vote in the Democratic primary.

If he loses the primary, the Party will lose all or most of those voters, unless they write in Bernie in the general. If he gets Republican votes, not many of those will transfer to Hillary.

[GoneFishin]

58. I will write in Bernie.

[merrily]

59. Before Bernie announced, a relative told me she was going to write in Warren, but

I didn't ask her if she meant primary or general.

Turns out, it's only decisive matters in certain counties, anyway, not purple states, but purple counties.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12778561

[oregonjen]

26. At last night's PDX rally, there were tables that had flyers saying you must register as a Democrat

in order to vote for Bernie in the Primary.

[djean111]

29. Thank you for that info - I am quite the grandma about this sort of thing.

Comes from working as a Quality Assurance engineer and tester for a long time. "What could possibly go wrong, and did we allow for that" sort of thing.

[artislife]

39. This is so key

Keep the momentum and turn it into stradegy.

[merrily]

43. Is that true? In Massachusetts, I can vote in the Democratic primary if I am

registered either "Democrat" or "unenrolled." I just cannot vote in a Democratic primary if I am registered Republican, Green, Libertarian, etc.

[cascadiance]

33. I know for a fact that many of us attending last night were carrying voter registration forms...

... with them to hand out! There's a lot of efforts to get people campaigning. And those attending from Vancouver, Washington didn't need Washington voter registration forms, because they have open primaries in that state.

[djean111]

35. Thanks! I don't know why I worried about that!

Maybe because my grandson told me he will be voting for Bernie in the primary. He said checked the "Independent" box when he registered during his visit with the Drivers License people, thinking it meant, well, independent. He should have chosen non-affiliated or whatever they have here in Florida. So I have to get his registration changed. And of course you cannot do that online in Florida yet. You can only fill it out and print it, you still have to get it to the Supervisor of Elections.

[merrily]

44. There is an Independent Party. So, that gets confusing.

[djean111]

45. Yep. But he never asked me about it, and just checked it.

He still has his ADHD impulsive thing going on. What is cool now is that he will (when he is not working!) interrupt his computer gaming and read the Bernie subreddit. And ask me if I have heard the latest. I would never have thought he would be that interested in politics. When I told him that, he said it would be a mistake to think that all the young people are interested in politics - they are interested in Bernie. I don't think they are going to buy into that Team! stuff. For better or for worse, that's just how it is.

[merrily]

47. Isn't that fun, when you can relate to a relative though politics?

My whole family--nuclear-aunts, uncles cousins, with only one exception, is Democratic. So far, everyone who has declared has declared for Bernie, from the oldest (80) to the youngest. So, get togethers with any group of relatives are not only trouble free on that score, but fun.

[questionseverything]

41. i noticed the..."his campaign says" too

i had to laugh, thinking well golly if there was only someway the reporters could confirm it...like being there themselves

ha

seriously tho, we are gonna have to do the work, the 1%ers msm is not gonna do it for us

[merrily]

48. good point. Or, call the venue.

[fredamae]

10. There were Thousands more

watching on YouTube, KGW and KATU etc who couldn't Be there.
Bernie Rocked the PNW

[SoapBox]

28. Hey...I watched the KGW feed and I'm in Los Angeles.

And I saw that pdxdavid watched it in South Korea!

Really hard to tell how many folks around the world watched.

While I would like to see/hear about him in MSM, I am concerned that it will all be FuksNews style lies...the Oligarchs seem to be blatant in their so-called new reporting. I HOPE there is a plan in place or being worked on to combat that. Yes, we do have the social media (until the Oligarchs try and shut it down or pull the plug...your conspiracy theory may vary ) but not every single person is plugged in. Just say'n...

I must say, I loved the warm up by Symone Sanders...the woman is FIREY!

Go Bernie! Go Team Bernie! We Stand Together!

[fredamae]

32. It would have been a

300 mile trip for me to attend, so I-along with you also watched it on KGW

And yes! Symone has a total Green Thumb for Inspiring and Energizing a crowd and she's a Reasonable, Classy, Powerful-No Nonsense woman! I like people like that.

When I grow up....

[Pastiche423]

62. I watched it from 45 feet

And I'm still smiling.

Go Bernie Go!

[Divernan]

13. Shouldn't have been locked in LBN; was w/in 12 hours of event.

Were you given the courtesy of an explanation/justification? Who was the ''host" who blocked you? Somebody please explain to me why this story was not huge news. Historic crowd size for primary race. It's news, and when posted within 12 hours, it should qualify as late breaking.

On edit: as I type this the featured stories on home page/Breaking News are:
Advocates plan protest against gun shop opening
South Korea pissed at North Korea
Bangladesh Tiger poachers killed
Worker at wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant dies from head injury

And, oh yeah, a pro HRC opinion piece incorporating the fact from last Thursday.
“Republicans are systematically . . . trying to stop millions of American citizens from voting,” Clinton wrote in a Twitter message Thursday typical of her recent postings. “What part of democracy are they afraid of?”

A twitter message from 5 days ago qualifies as LBN because it was written about in an opinion piece?

[LiberalElite]

52. It was locked because someone else beat me to it by

Last edited Tue Aug 11, 2015, 06:46 AM - Edit history (1)

posting the same link around 12:30 a.m. when I was in sleepy-bye land.

[Divernan]

53. Channeling Emily Litella: "Oh . . . . never mind."

[LiberalElite]

54. hehehe

[DrBulldog]

16. Earlier Hillary came to Portland, too.

She talked in secret to a couple of hundred of people with fat wallets, then left.

She had no time for Oregon's "rabble".

[Divernan]

19. HRC slumming in $1.7 Mil. home of Portland trust fund baby.

HRC slumming it in $1.7 Mil.home of Philips/Andover, Harvard grad.

Some people are said to have been born with a silver spoon in their mouths; HRC's trust-fund baby host, heir to banking fortune, is described (see below) as having been born with a platinum spoon in his mouth.
Same old, same old - Hillary hangin' with her peeps, the very rich, the one percent. And as F. Scott Fitzgerald accurately observed: "Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them. Unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different." Now granted HRC & Bill weren't born very rich, but have we ever seen any political pair pursue the life style of the rich and famous with more dedication and determination than the Clintons?

Read more at http://quotationsbook.com/quote/34538/#pbK32mF9SFxqOOV8.99

Where
Home of Win McCormack and Carol Butler - 11878 SW Riverwood Road, Portland
http://politicalpartytime.org/party/39929/

Meet HRC's host: Win McCormack
McCormack is the author of: You Don't Know Me: A Citizen's Guide to Republican Family Values. Therein he documented, among other shortcomings, 22 examples of adultery by Republican politicians and activists. He described these acts as "overwhelming deviance from professed moral standards". Ironic that Win trashes Republican sex offenders, when McCormack served as Chair of the Oregon Steering Committee for Gary Hart's 1984 presidential campaign.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/win-mccormack/introduction-to-emyou-don_b_117106.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Win_McCormack

I googled to see if Bill Clinton had reviewed or recommended this book, but apparently he hasn't. Hope Win has the good taste to put his extra copies of the book out of sight before HRC arrives.

And if anyone should have good taste and good manners it should be Win, who was born to great wealth and prepped at Phillips Academy Andover and got his BA at Harvard. Are y'all familiar w/ Phillips Exeter? Founded during the American Revolutionary War, doncha' know, Muffy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Academy

An Amazon review: McCormack as hypocrite
ByKip Dellinger "Kip"on August 25, 2008
Format: Paperback
As the publisher's review says, McCormack's complaint taken realistically seems to be of a problem endemic to American society rather than Republicans or their politicians. In fact, it's almost laughable when one thinks about FDR, JFK, Bill Clinton, John Edwards, Gary Hart and on and on.

But, gentle readers, do not fear for Win McCormack. He is an heir (a principal one) to the McCormack family wealth - the McCormack brothers that founded Illinois Tool Co. (used to be Illinois Tool & Die Works) and Northern Trust (one of America's oldest and most pretigious "big" banks).

Like too many trust fund babys born with the silver spoon (in this case Platinum) in their mouths, and taken care of for their entire lives by trust distributions, McCormack believes that he is entitled to tell the rest of the world how to live. A bit of digging around into who he is and what he came from, will reveal enough hypocrisy on his part to discredit his Republicans as the country's only bad guys.

http://www.amazon.com/You-Dont-Know-Me-Republican/product-reviews/0979419867/ref=dp_db_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

[merrily]

46. Not fer nuthin, but $1.7 million does not sound like a lot for a home to these

ears. A platinum spoon baby in Boston would be living in a town house worth many millions. And still be lucky to have a parking space. A $1.7 million dollar condo in a great building in a great area of Boston might not even be overly impressive.

[Divernan]

50. Location, location, location

as the real estate folks say. Don't think Portland has been hit with the inflated prices of San Francisco and Seattle.

[cascadiance]

34. It seems ironic that you needed $2,700 per person to see her speak when she was here...

And we had over 10 times that amount (28,000) in PEOPLE not dollars that came to see him speak!

Who's the voice of the people Hillary?

[Chipper Chat]

18. Yet Fox is still bashing Hillary 24/7.

I watched Fox last evening because the other cable channels were a wasteland (The Hunt with Jon Walsh - UGGGGG). The Harris lady and her guests were spewing on and on about Hil's emails, Bengazi and how it will eventually sink her and Walker will be President - yada yada. The Fox Ivory Tower, The CNN_MIssing Plane station, and MSNBC-see no evil, hear no evil,suck-up-to-corps - they are all light years behind reality.

[tavernier]

20. Are they still calling the last election

for Romney?

[djean111]

30. For one thing, they still have all their Hillary stuff from 2008, and she still has that

baggage. It does not matter one iota how gracefully she handles it, it is not about her, but about GOP voter perception.
Maybe the ongoing "Hillary is inevitable" thing is not working well in that regard, because why would they need to spew about anyone else, if HRC is "it"? The current spew gets noticed by GOP voters AND Democratic Primary voters.

[merrily]

49. Republicans are just as adamant as MSNBC that Hillary will be the nominee.

Comments are along the lines of "He can beat Hillary," not "He can beat the Democratic nominee."

Food for thought.

Lots of thought.

[artislife]

40. Let them

We will still be building Bernie with no fanfare.

[kenfrequed]

22. Shouldn't this be in (primary) GD?

That is an insane turnout!

Shouldn't this discussion be out in the primary general discussion room where everyone can see it?

[Divernan]

23. Should also be there & should have been in LBN

But it's fun to discuss it in the Bernie group without all the snarky, true-believer inane, vacuous comments and rollies.

[LiberalElite]

60. I stated above that I posted in LBN and it was blocked because

someone else posted it around 12:30 a.m. I'm avoiding GD-P.

[LiberalElite]

61. If you want to post it go ahead but I'm avoiding GD-P nt

[LWolf]

25. I love Portland.

I love my state.

And I was blown away watching the live stream last night.

[azmom]

31. Well done Portland.

Woo hoo

[Babel_17]

37. Just wow, here in NY we're waiting for our chance

Way to go Portland!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

51. The media are starting to listen

[Babel_17]

56. No need for debates yet, there's no public appetite for them!

Yeah, I think DWS at the DNC is going to feel pressure from the media for not letting them wet their beak.
They'd get to make money while actually doing their job, and performing a public service.

"And now for the trifecta"