Bernie Sanders just easily won the New Hampshire primary. It's a remarkable achievement.

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24. Sure they do and they are encouraing. But!

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For perspective, Superbowl attendance for one stupid ballgame is often over 100,000, never less than 60,000. According to Wikipedia, of 226 stadiums in the U.S., only a few hold as few as 20,000; half of them range from about 50K to 100K capacity.

That's because we have over 300,000,000 people in the U.S. Any big crowd these days is YUUUGE!

Now these are impressive movement-size crowds: The 2006 Hispanic immigrant rights marches in dozens of cities across the nation drew several hundred thousand people out by conservative estimates, likely over a million. The Washington Post and L.A. Times reported 500,000 in Los Angeles. In Chicago it was apparently somewhere between 100,000 and 250,000.

I've been by City Hall in downtown L.A. a bunch of times, but it never looked like this.


This was the Washington Mall - packed end to end and way beyond.


Of course, Bernie doesn't have to draw people out in those numbers to win, but 30,000 from a nation of over 300,000,000 is 1 in 1000. Ten of those are 10 in 1000. He needs to draw a lot more outraged Americans determined to fix our nation if we're going to beat the extremely well organized and funded opposition of most of our over 500 American billionaires, most of the 45,000 Americans with net worths over $50 million, the Religious Right, and most of the rest of our conservative working people who've been brainwashed to at best dismiss left-wing programs as unworkable and at worst downright evil.

Oh, and let's not forget all those on the left who don't normally vote because it "won't make any difference" or "whatever." If they don't vote, their orientation does not make any difference at all.