Relative sizes of turnout for candidates - how big are their crowds?
Are any of the others packing in the crowds like Bernie is? I am mostly asking about the GOP candidates but also about Hillary's crowds?
Real crowds, not sock-puppet/tea-party types (the people getting violent often may be fake professional RW PR firm employees, IMHO)
Real crowds can't be faked. (The extra loud and obnoxious people do that to make their numbers seem bigger, just like online.)
Seems to me that Trump is not attracting such large crowds. Certainly not big arena sized crowds.
Is Trumps support "soft"? Which Republican, if any, has supporters who would go the extra mile for them? Would any stand in a long line in a snowstorm to show their support for them?
(Or are they just bored and there 'for entertainment')?
Does Hillary get big crowds like Bernie's anywhere? I have not seen any side by side comparisons of the crowds turning up at rallies in the media like I saw in the past. But certainly, the crowds turning up for Bernie are much much bigger than any I have seen in the past for candidates. One would have to go to before my time (Kennedy) to see that kind of turnout, I think. (I know he spoke at Madison Square Garden in NYC which even then, was a quite large venue)
I'm not so young, and can remember back to maybe the late 70s politically, and I don't remember any President in recent memory being able to bring >10,000 people to a rally together in so many major cities.
One thing I do remember from earlier were (NYC) anti-Vietnam-War rallies, which my mother brought me to, carrying me on her shoulders, some of which I remember, were huge.
