Bernie Sanders' rally in Baltimore encapsulates his demographic problems

[SaschaHM]

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.@BernieSanders fans out for morning rally in Baltimore but big stadium partitioned to cut room in half




Baltimore, Md. 2010 census population (rank): 620,961 (21); Male: 292,249 (46.6%); Female: 328,712 (52.9%); White: 183,830 (29.6%); Black: 395,781 (63.7%);

[stopbush]

1. Looks like the Democratic Tea Party to me.

[fleabiscuit]

6. +1 Not that they aren't nice people in real life.

[Tarheel_Dem]

12. +1

[IamMab]

2. No crowd size announcement? No record-breaking numbers? No surprise. nt

[Rose Siding]

3. That sign says it all

When the only visible sign is a plea for the candidate to remain in the race, you know the end is near.

[sarae]

4. lmaooo

great point.

[savalez]

7. That's right...

I saw a headline yesterday that read "This Is Not The End Of Bernie Sanders" and my immediate thought was "This is the end of Bernie Sanders."

[SunSeeker]

17. Exactly.

[Maru Kitteh]

19. Nice observation

And true.

[book_worm]

5. Not many African-American faces in a city with over 60% African-American population.

[JSup]

8. That's Baltimore?

Doesn't look like it based on the crowd.

Maybe his rallies are so big because his rally just follows him around.

[DemonGoddess]

9. Looks like would if that rally were to be held in my small city I

live in, in Indiana.

[BlueMTexpat]

10. LOL - your comment reminds me of

the Twilight Zone episode where the "crowd" at accidents always consisted of the same people.

I may be wrong, however. I was sure that I remembered this from Serling's Twilight Zone series, but apparently the story is one of Ray Bradbury's. http://www.nytimes.com/1985/07/02/arts/ray-bradbury-s-crowd-on-hbo.html

While looking this up, I also found this gem: http://www.shadowlocked.com/201109192142/lists/top-10-twilight-zone-twists.html

Anyway, none of this has anything to do with Bernie, Baltimore, or the 2016 elections. But it's still fun! Thanks for allowing me a trip down memory lane.

[JSup]

11. Any time. :) nt

[DemonGoddess]

15. ahhhh

one of my favorite authors! Bradbury had quite a few of his short stories adapted for Twilight Zone.

[pandr32]

13. Looks like some last gasps

His diminishing presence and call to "revolution" will be to an empty room soon.

[spooky3]

14. I was going to ask whether this was held in the suburbs, which might affect who shows up, but

it was in the Royal Farms Arena DOWNTOWN Baltimore.

[SunSeeker]

16. Wow. A picture tells a thousand words. nt

[Kath1]

18. Yes.

I live in Baltimore. To be fair, that picture is not totally accurate of his march and rally. There were black people there but not in huge numbers. My daughter was there with a friend.