=*= LIVE Stream @ NOW: Bernie Sanders Rally in Boise, ID 3-21-16 =*=

[Donkees]

[bkkyosemite]

1. The rally will start at 12 noon PDT

[SoapBox]

3. Huh?

[in_cog_ni_to]

6. Shooo!

You have your own forum. Don't pollute Bernie's.

[HassleCat]

4. I'm smelling third party.

These rallies are not attended by traditional Democratic voters, as we see from the primary election results. There will be no third party effort this time, but 2020 presents an excellent possibility of a viable third party. The Sanders rallies represent some kind of undercurrent among voters who feel disenfranchised, disillusioned, unrepresented, etc. I don't think four years of President Clinton will bring them back into the fold. Quite the opposite, in fact. Our two major parties are failing to connect with an increasing number of citizens, and our party is making only a faint effort to figure out who these people are and why they're not faithful Democrats. Instead, they're being dismissed as too young, too old, too white, too uninformed, too this, too that. This is going to bite us in the butt, particularly if the Republicans figure it out before we do.

[Donkees]

5. kick

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. Another huge crowd!

Thanks for the stream!

PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE

[LiberalArkie]

8. He is going after Trump big... Called him a pathological lier.

[thereismore]

9. Bernie leads Trump by 11% in UT. nt

[IDemo]

10. Just returned from the rally

Unfortunately, I bailed early to beat the rush and missed out on the Trump comments. He did mention what a massive prison population we have in large part to the drug war and marijuana remaining a Schedule-1 drug, which he is trying to fight with legislation.

He brought up Clinton's Wall Street speech: For $225,000, that had to be a speech for the ages, one to turn around modern civilization. Probably done with Shakespearean prose, and so good it should be shared with Everyone (applause).

He stated that any Supreme Court nominee of his would have to be in favor of reversing Citizens United, no surprise there.

It was a very loud crowd, but likely not the 10,000-plus I had hoped for. I'd guess around seven or eight thousand, about the same as we had at the '08 Caucus. I'm not sure people in blue and purple areas can understand how powerful events like this can be for us Blue dots in Red spots. Boise's Democratic Mayor Dave Bieter said it best at the 2008 Caucus: "Well, ladies and gentlemen, isn't it good to be with friends?" Indeed it is.

[gsb54]

11. thanks for sharing!