Photos do not lie! When Bernie did Boston....

[nc4bo]

(horrible video but enough for show contrast)

and

http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/bernie-sanders-holds-bostons-largest-democratic-primary-rally-ever

The Boston Globe noted that the rally in their city made history – topping the size of a 10,000-person rally Barack Obama held during the 2008 Democratic primary.
Sanders was introduced by several speakers, including both nursing students and a representative of National Nurses United, the large nursing union. Bill McKibben, one of the nation's most prominent climate activists, took the podium before the Senator and praised his opposition to the Keystone pipeline, a project Sanders opposed first in 2011.

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Hundreds, thousands of people from all walks of life.

Contrast with when Hillary came to Boston:
http://www.wcvb.com/news/mayor-walsh-endorses-hillary-clinton-at-rally-inside-great-hall/36707802

Most of the audience were labor union members as Clinton’s remarks focused on improving the country’s infrastructure, alluding to damage done from Boston’s historic snowfall.

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(what's up with the guy with the yellow sign?)

Now HRC can fire up all the Hillary supporters in those safe events with chosen audiences in Boston or wherever, sending her supporters out to campaign and whip up enthusiasm in getting those people to the polls. I'm honestly glad she has supporters who have enough enthusiasm to support their candidate in this way. Way ta go Hill!

And tonight there are the 1100 or so Dems at the JJ Dinner in NH showing support to NH Dems or any of their chosen candidates or all of them LOL

http://www.wmur.com/politics/1100-democrats-jam-manchester-radisson-armory-to-kick-off-jeffersonjackson-dinner/36707956


But thousands upon thousands of people are #feelintheBern, are unapologically enthusiastic and the enthusiasm is infectious as hell! That is the one thing that HRC can NOT copycat.

Way ta go Bernie!!! Stay the course everyone! Don't give up or give in! Pictures and video do not lie. Even the media let's its slip show every now and then - it's not your eyes deceiving you.

[Fawke Em]

1. LOL.

Some Hill fan posted a Tweet that the "crowd went wild" when the mayor and Hill spoke and I said, "Crowd?"

I guess when you're a Bernie fan, THAT is NOT a crowd.

[The Blue Traveller]

3. That is a joke, actually.

I can eyeball maybe 500-700.

Bernie septuples that number, easily

[Fawke Em]

4. Yep. For someone with her name recognition, that crowd is

definitely a joke.

But, I can hear their excuses ("It had to be limited for protection!" - didn't stop Obama, did it?; "They only wanted the party people and unions!" - Why? The optics when compared to Bernie aren't very good. And so on.) and it won't matter until the vote is taken.

When I've had enough of their snark, I head over to Reddit and SEE what thousands are doing on Bernie's behalf so their assholery doesn't get me down.

[The Blue Traveller]

6. I need to start frequenting Reddit a little bit more often..

[cui bono]

15. No kidding.

The conversation there is so much more intelligent than here nowadays. I need to keep going back there and whittle down my time wasted on DU arguing with admitted trolls.

[The Blue Traveller]

2. Yup, Bernie has the numbers. The Clinton supporters remain in denial.

You gotta have the motivation and the numbers are simply there. 75 million millennials and at least 2/3 supports Bernie. That is the one subgroup, as well as untold millions of Generation X that loves Bernie and have registered for the first time and is NOT counted into the poll methodology.

[Fawke Em]

5. Something else I noticed:

The only people with a lot of Hill gear are the carpenters, who obviously were given matching T-shirts to wear.

All those other people? No buttons, few signs, no shirts, no placards = no enthusiasm.

For all we know, these people were walking down the street and someone said the former First Lady would be there soon, so they stayed to see a famous person. I mean, even I would be curious if a Clinton were coming to the area I happened to be visiting. I might stick around to get a glimpse, but I wouldn't have any supporting buttons or anything on.

Edited to add: And even nearly half of the balcony was filled with media and not supporters. Bernie puts the media on platforms in the middle so the people get the seats.

[nc4bo]

7. Just ignore it all and keep the Bern burning!

Twitter @hillary has bagillion zillions of followers.

Twitter @Bernie or whatever....less than a million.

Weird, eh?

Then I remembered something about buying Facebook "likes" or something or other and thought why should twitter be any different?

I can not trust HRC. I will not. She makes it impossible.

[Fawke Em]

11. Some of that is conflated, too.

Bernie has two Twitter accounts: his senatorial one and his "for president" one. Add them together, take out Hill's sock puppets, and he easily has her beat.

[cui bono]

16. To be fair though, you can't add them together since you'll get doubled up followers.

Still, who cares? As noted in the OP, he gets 10 times the people at live events. He's broken Obama records! (Oops... I forgot, he's no Obama. )

.

[WillyT]

8. K & R !!!

[SoapBox]

9. So when was her last mega rally?

No mega rallies, you say...just private "conversations" or invitation only Billionaire Bankster Club dinners...

Oh.

[nc4bo]

10. (In my best Walking Dead Rick voice)....but they're not safe Caaarl! nt

[Scootaloo]

14. She's got stuff goin' on. Thaaaangs

[Karma13612]

12. Check out the comments below the wmur article you linked to last, for the jj dinner.

Looks like team Hillary bought up a lot of the tickets so Bernie people were told it was sold out.
Apparently something similar happened in Iowa.

I knew it would get dirty. Just pathetic "team Hillary".

Pathetic.

[Fawke Em]

13. I noticed most comments were anti-Hillary, too.

But, this one was telling:

from what I saw outside the Radisson, Bernie's crowd was much bigger than Hillary's. there were a ton of Hillary lawn signs without people near them, and a ton of people holding Bernie signs and cheering.

Now signs are being "held" by non-existing people - kind of like her social media sock puppets.

[Karma13612]

19. Yes, I saw that as well. Smoke and mirrors. Eom

[Unknown Beatle]

17. Hillary's campaign stop in Boston had thousands,

or maybe even hundreds of people show up.

[MannyGoldstein]

18. I'm pretty sure that Manny was the guy with the yellow sign nt

[AzDar]

20. Dude with the sign is *awesome*...