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hootinholler

(26,449 posts) Mon Jun 1, 2015, 05:54 PM Jun 2015

One in 200.

No I don't mean the Republican candidate selection process.

One in 200 showed up to hear Bernie on the stump in Minneapolis. (That assumes a population of 400,000 and a crowd of 2,000)

For perspective, with a population of 8.4 million the equivalent per-capita New York City crowd is 42,000.

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One in 200. (Original Post) hootinholler Jun 2015 OP

Are you setting us up for something? upaloopa Jun 2015 #1

Not that I'm aware of hootinholler Jun 2015 #2

Actually, the population of the Twin Cities metro MineralMan Jun 2015 #3

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

1. Are you setting us up for something?

Reply to hootinholler (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 06:25 PM

Jun 2015

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)

2. Not that I'm aware of

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 08:08 PM

Jun 2015

Who is us?

MineralMan

(146,325 posts)

3. Actually, the population of the Twin Cities metro

Reply to hootinholler (Original post)

Mon Jun 1, 2015, 08:23 PM

Jun 2015

Is over 2 million. St. Paul and Minneapolis each have about 300,000. Or metro area is small in size, also. A half hour drive gets even outer ring suburbanites into either city. We're bigger than you think.

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