There are between 9000-10000 people at the Bernie Sanders event in Portland...

[Playinghardball]

It's a full house...

[Duckhunter935]

1. Awesome

[Kalidurga]

2. Here is a link/ Never mind speech is over.

[arcane1]

3. I missed the first part of it, but the rest was GREAT!

[Kalidurga]

6. I missed all but the last 2 minutes.

I only have one problem with Bernie speeches. He hits the ground running and he doesn't stop until he stops.

[PotatoChip]

13. The last time I was there, the building wasn't ANYWHERE near that full.

It was 1996 Maine Democratic Convention, and guess who the guest speaker was...

[Kalidurga]

23. Well that puts the crowd in real good perspective.

[sabrina 1]

40. The Convention didn't draw as big a crowd? I don't know who the guest speaker was, but

I'll take a guess, was it Mario Cuomo?

[PotatoChip]

43. No, there were plenty of empty seats.

Even when the FLOTUS spoke.

I liked her back then, and still do. But Bernie is my candidate for the primary, and hopefully- the general election.

https://archive.bangordailynews.com/1996/05/16/democrats-to-rally-the-party-faithful-hillary-clinton-featured-speaker-at-convention/

[Stryder]

29. Thanks

Getting late now but book marked for tomorrow.
Anyone know when he'll be in the Cleveland area.
I'm there.

[libdem4life]

4. Great Speech.

[bluedigger]

5. That's a huge turnout for Maine.

Practically Lobster Festival numbers, ayuh.

[merrily]

14. Lohwbstah.

[BrotherIvan]

18. LOL!

[PotatoChip]

47. Lol!... Here is some more Maine-speak

ANKLE BITAH
“Ankle Biter” Little kids, toddlers. As compared to small yappy dogs.

CUNNIN’
Cute. Sometimes used to describe little children when they’re not being ankle biters. Most likely to be used for small, fluffy baby animals, “Look at that bunny, ain’t he cunnin’”

We do know how to use the letter R, however... Just sometimes in the wrong places.

IDEAR
An idea. As in, “I’ve got an idear.”

PUCKAHBRUSH
The puckerbrush, maybe on the side of the road, lots of tree branches and grass and dead leaves and shit. Probably a place your dog wants to poop.

A whole lot more here:
http://midcoastmillennial.bangordailynews.com/2015/06/01/home/the-outta-statahs-guide-to-maine-slang/

For a truly authentic Maine accent, I might as well add this kid:

[merrily]

49. Love it! The way I typed "lobster" is actually my approximation of how the word sounds in

the classic Massachusetts accent of a half century ago, which was heavy in the speech of Boston's late Mayor Menino. However, from an actor who plays Paul Revere at the Paul Revere house--or did last time I was there--told me that colonial Bostonians sounded like Maine elders do today.

What knocks me out is that "store" is two syllables in the old Maine accent (stow-ah) and also in the old Southern accent, but not in the states in between.

The kid is too cute and timbah is authentic. However, I think his great-grandpa would never speak as quickly as the star of your video speaks in some parts. In fact, the Revere re-enactor told me if he did his spiel about Paul Revere's ride in the Maine accent, it would take him all day.

[MissDeeds]

7. Awesome

K&R

[azmom]

8. Go Bernie Go

[Kalidurga]

9. Oh and 1 in 20 that is a big number

We didn't have nearly as many as a percent in Minneapolis. But, if Bernie swings by again with plenty of notice that 5k we had would probably triple.

[Ed Suspicious]

11. It sure is fun watching this thing grow!

[Marty McGraw]

24. He'll have to put it on

Bern Notice

[Kalidurga]

25. LOL that one is my favorite

I am having fun watching the 3rd wayers go into deep denial.

[sabrina 1]

41. Lol, it's gone from 'bad optics, he won't go anywhere with that hair' to 'large crowds mean nothing'

It IS fun watching them go negative against a real Progressive Dem. This election season is going to reveal a whole lot about a lot of 'democrats'.

Here we have a candidate that is a dream candidate for any Democrat. There should not be a single Dem who isn't rooting for him now. Actually there isn't!

[merrily]

50. I've had MSNBC on all day. They are knocking themselves out to compare Bernie's big crowds to those

of Howard Dean and to remind us not to take him seriously as a contender, 'cause Hillary. Their special consultants, aka MSNBC employees who don't have their own MSNBC show, have been called into to do this "analysis." Dean even came from Vermont, too, so there.

[nenagh]

10. Inspiring speech... absolutely wonderful..

for all his supporters..

[appalachiablue]

12. Fantastic speech and crowd turnout. I saw the last 5 mins., what righteous truth he speaks.

And with amazing power and strength. These will go down in history.

Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Long Distance Runner!

~ Do Not Underestimate Senator Bernie Sanders ~

Go Bernie 2016!

Feel the Bern!

[kath]

38. "what righteous truth he speaks." Yes!

just caught a little bit of his Madison speech, but it literally gave me goosebumps to hear such truths being told.

Go, Bernie, Go!

[Hoppy]

15. 10,000 Mainiacs ! Damn. That's excellent.

[grahamhgreen]

48. 10,000 fringe Americans, lol

[ybbor]

16. Do you feel that?

It's the Bern!

Aloe will help, but it's not going away.

[glinda]

17. Husband accidentally unplugged computer while I was watching it. Did he talk about

the environment? Oh God I hope he did. Without a livable environment none of this other stuffs matter.

[arcane1]

26. He did indeed. He started it with something like "The debate is over!"

It was a great speech!

[glinda]

27. That is the number one reason I give to him. And of course other reasons too.

[sabrina 1]

42. He's a Climate Hawk! Never fails to mention it. And the Pope agrees with him, meaning all those

Republican Catholic Climate Deniers are going to be hearing what the Pope said in their churches about those who will not take care of this planet. I believe he called it a sin.

[HereSince1628]

19. Can't win? Surah looks like he chan get theyah from heeyah

Way to Go Portland! Way to go Bernie!

[BrotherIvan]

20. That is freakin amazing

Population or Portland, Maine - 66,194

Can you believe this????

[intheflow]

39. Wow!

That's an amazing turnout for that size population!

[MannyGoldstein]

21. Socialist!!! Extreme!!!

Socialist!!! Extreme!!!

Socialist!!! Extreme!!!

Socialist!!! Extreme!!!

Regards,

TWM

[sadoldgirl]

32. Well, that is a heck of a lot

better than having Tea with your party or claiming
that you can be thee savior trump president of the
country.

[kath]

37. TWM, you forgot something

Unelectable!! unelectable!! Unelectable!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

22. I don't see anything in the media?

[sadoldgirl]

34. Oh yes. For the last three programs

on MSNBC they acknowledged his success.
All that Howard Dean said was not to count
HRC out. That was a huge admission on his
part, imho.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

35. I see that the Washington Post was reporting less numbers at the rallies

[Jester Messiah]

44. "Don't count HRC out"?

That's huge! That's like saying "all is not yet lost". What a stunning reversal!

[Cleita]

28. He's unstopable.

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[Plucketeer]

30. FANTASTIC!!!!!!

The people are listening and buying Bernie's message. I just can't WAIT until contenders of EITHER party try to lock horns with Bernie. As the old line goes: The TRUTH shall set you free! And freedom is anxiously sensing that it's leash is about to be undone. Man, whatta glorious moment for the history books that are yet to be written.

[aspirant]

31. He's getting these #'s, to my knowledge,

w/o even 1 ad on any MSM, who needs 'um?

[7962]

33. Meanwhile, the Clinton campaign hogties reporters.......

I thought Sanders couldnt draw??

[rhett o rick]

36. k & r. Thanks for posting.

[Enthusiast]

45. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch!

Go, Bernie!

[Babel_17]

46. The groundswell grows

I think we can expect a large number of reporters getting shifted to covering this exciting campaign.

[Phlem]

51. Huge F'ing K&R!!!!!