Nice article about Berniementum from WashPo!

[peacebird]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/how-does-bernie-sanders-draw-huge-crowds-to-see-him/2015/08/11/4ae018f8-3fde-11e5-8d45-d815146f81fa_story.html

Those who came to “Feel the Bern” — a popular chant among Sanders supporters — were white, Latino, black and Asian. There were young hipsters and graying hippies. Some wore black T-shirts with red hammers and sickles, others wore black T-shirts that read, “Black Lives Matter.” They sang along as the loudspeakers blasted songs by Willie Nelson, Tracy Chapman and Neil Young.

[RiverLover]

1. 100,000 people have come to recent Bernie Sanders rallies. How does he do it?

Good article. Thanks!

....The crowds are building via social media, word of mouth and promotion by local unions and advocacy groups in each city Sanders visits, along with the occasional like-minded celebrity. There has been no paid advertising by the campaign.

....About a week before each Sanders rally, the campaign sets up a Web page advertising the location and blasts out an e-mail to supporters in that geographic area, asking them to RSVP. The events are also promoted on Facebook. And from there, things tend to take on a life of their own.

“What we’re seeing all across the country are organic formations of people independent of the campaign,” said Phil Fiermonte, Sanders’s national field director.

Harris got a speaking slot Monday night because his union helped promote the rally. Same with Joe Galliani, a climate-change activist and member of a local union who earned some of the loudest cheers as he denounced construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and touted the benefits of solar roofs....

Defines "grassroots". Love this!!!! Love Bernie!!!