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In less than 24 hours the Boston rally has more RSVPs (Original Post) Fawke Em Sep 2015 OP
Good to hear TheFarS1de Sep 2015 #1
Boston is my "adoptive" city. Fawke Em Sep 2015 #2
Mine too. hifiguy Sep 2015 #32
Mine too! dorkzilla Sep 2015 #34
Here's the Bern! Rosa Luxemburg Sep 2015 #10
plus infinity restorefreedom Sep 2015 #20
That doesn't really mean anything though Aerows Sep 2015 #3
Besides, isn't Boston one of those "white-only" cities? I think it may be. cherokeeprogressive Sep 2015 #4
I seem to recall the Celtics being all white for many years. Elmer S. E. Dump Sep 2015 #15
My first thought rpannier Sep 2015 #17
I've never been to Boston before Aerows Sep 2015 #23
Its true. bunnies Sep 2015 #30
They find them so obnoxious cui bono Sep 2015 #5
LOL Aerows Sep 2015 #22
Nah...it's the smell that gives them away... haikugal Sep 2015 #28
lol, I know! Enthusiasm is so crazy and weird. closeupready Sep 2015 #6
Whistling past the graveyard MoveIt Sep 2015 #8
Plus, I've been assured that SheilaT Sep 2015 #9
They just say they support a candidate Aerows Sep 2015 #21
The sad truth is, SheilaT Sep 2015 #25
I thought this comment on the site was good. Uncle Joe Sep 2015 #7
The prophet! Rosa Luxemburg Sep 2015 #12
Yes! That one is spot on! 1monster Sep 2015 #13
:) Clever! Duppers Sep 2015 #18
That is great. Now I am going to go to look at the whole thing. jwirr Sep 2015 #31
Best laff of the day. hifiguy Sep 2015 #33
Boston rally has more RSVPs Pharaoh Sep 2015 #11
11k. nt bunnies Sep 2015 #29
K & R! beam me up scottie Sep 2015 #14
Note that the Boston convention center can hold a total (including overflow) more than 50,000! DrBulldog Sep 2015 #16
Maybe they can set up overflow for the overflow? nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2015 #27
Someone on that thread nailed the media reaction Fumesucker Sep 2015 #19
Gol durn college kids Art_from_Ark Sep 2015 #24
It's only because Sanders is from a neighboring state. Unfair name recogntion advantage. Ummm, wait Tom Rinaldo Sep 2015 #26
No one posted "More Than a Feeling" yet? Babel_17 Sep 2015 #35

Fawke Em

(11,366 posts)
2. Boston is my "adoptive" city.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 10:30 PM
Sep 2015

My husband is from there and I love it there.

If I could get my aging mother to move from Tennessee, I'd move up there in a heartbeat.

dorkzilla

(5,141 posts)
34. Mine too!
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 06:16 PM
Sep 2015

When I was 15 my best friend’s older sister stole their parent’s car and the 3 of us drove to Boston under cover of darkness. Three teenagers went to Boston to see the historic sites. Criminal nerds!!!

My family is originally from the Boston area (moved to NY 4 generations ago) and I for one wish they’d never left. I love it there!

I drove up on a whim a couple of years ago to put flowers on my gggggggggggggggggggrandparent’s grave which is smack in the middle of the city. I need to get up there again soon!

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
3. That doesn't really mean anything though
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 10:48 PM
Sep 2015

It just means he has enthusiastic supporters, and all.

He'll never get elected with enthusiastic supporters. I mean, they are so enthusiastic, Hillary supporters find them obnoxious!

Who wants supporters like that!?

 

cherokeeprogressive

(24,853 posts)
4. Besides, isn't Boston one of those "white-only" cities? I think it may be.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 11:04 PM
Sep 2015

They don't allow People of Color in the northeast, do they?

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
23. I've never been to Boston before
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:29 AM
Sep 2015

but it probably is all white because New England doesn't have black people. They all wear Tricorne hats and rant about tea bags.

cui bono

(19,926 posts)
5. They find them so obnoxious
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 11:05 PM
Sep 2015

that they like to pretend to be them and then act very obnoxiously 'concerned'.



 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
22. LOL
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:25 AM
Sep 2015

I've seen a couple of those.

You think it was a horse of a different color, then you realize they just rolled around in the dirt to disguise themselves. Once you see the dirt, though, you know exactly which horse it is .

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
21. They just say they support a candidate
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 02:22 AM
Sep 2015

enthusiastically, go to the rallies they have, and then decide meh, I'm not in the mood to vote today.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
25. The sad truth is,
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 08:34 AM
Sep 2015

that as Republicans put more and more obstacles in the way of voting, even the most enthusiastic supporter can face challenges to actual voting.

Uncle Joe

(58,354 posts)
7. I thought this comment on the site was good.
Thu Sep 24, 2015, 11:31 PM
Sep 2015


(12) And King Obama did reign over a land in turmoil; for some sayeth, this King is blessed by the Lord, for he bringeth health to the sick; and others, that he was of a foreign kingdom born and reigneth by wielding a helm of jade.
(13) And in the sixth year of that king's reign arose a prophet from among the Jews. And that prophet denounced the taxpayers, and the moneylenders, and the doers of wicked deeds. (14) And he did prophecy, saying, that one man in one thousand in the kingdom did possess so many talents as did nine men in ten; and the people were amazed, and sayeth, Who speaketh thus, with neither lies, nor slander, nor twisting words, but speaketh plain and provideth facts and figures?
(15)And it came to pass that the prophet came to a city by the sea, and gathered around himself a crowd of disciples, in a house of conventions built of many cubits by many cubits in size; and the disciples filled the house, and the streets of the city. And the people were amazed, and many proclaimed it a sign from Heaven. (16)And the prophet looked over his crowd, and declared it to be yooge; which in his dialect meant plentiful in the bounty of the Lord.
I Bernie 21:12-16.






Thanks for the thread, Fawke Em

 

DrBulldog

(841 posts)
16. Note that the Boston convention center can hold a total (including overflow) more than 50,000!
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 12:16 AM
Sep 2015

Uh-huh!

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
19. Someone on that thread nailed the media reaction
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 12:27 AM
Sep 2015
I can already hear the media saying "It's not surprising that he got 40,000 people at his rally when you consider how many college age students are in Boston"

Tom Rinaldo

(22,912 posts)
26. It's only because Sanders is from a neighboring state. Unfair name recogntion advantage. Ummm, wait
Fri Sep 25, 2015, 08:39 AM
Sep 2015

OK, got it. It's only because he's lived in a neighboring state a lot longer than Chaffee or Clinton has.

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