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cal04

(41,505 posts)
Sun Sep 13, 2015, 10:14 PM Sep 2015

Word of the Day: Enthusiasm:"You look great from here. What a great turnout,” Sanders told the 9,100

Thousands of enthusiastic Bernie Sanders’ supporters turned out at a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday hours after a new poll for CBS News showed the senator cementing his front-runner status in New Hampshire, growing to a solid 10-point lead in Iowa and gaining ground in South Carolina.

You look great from here. What a great turnout,” Sanders told the 9,100 people in the audience, according to a crowd count by the Greensboro Coliseum Complex.

The huge turnout was another sign of the growing grassroots energy that has excited crowds across the country.


The energy behind Sanders also is reflected in public opinions surveys that put him in front in the states that will hold the first caucus and primary elections in the 2016 contest for the Democratic Party presidential nomination.

In New Hampshire, Sanders drew 52 percent of the Democrats to Clinton’s 30 percent. In Iowa, Sanders led Hillary Clinton 43 percent to 33 percent. Clinton was ahead in South Carolina.

There was one key finding tucked into the poll results’ fine-print.

“One major difference right now is enthusiasm: Sanders is generating it and Clinton is not. Seventy-eight percent of Sanders voters in New Hampshire, and 63 percent of his voters in Iowa, say they enthusiastically support him, while just 39 percent of Clinton’s backers in New Hampshire and 49 percent in Iowa say they enthusiastically support her,” CBS reported




https://berniesanders.com/greensboro-north-carolina-rally-enthusiasm/

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Word of the Day: Enthusiasm:"You look great from here. What a great turnout,” Sanders told the 9,100 (Original Post) cal04 Sep 2015 OP
Consider the Sanders supporter enthused. Ed Suspicious Sep 2015 #1
And this enthusiasm can't be bought, canoeist52 Sep 2015 #2
... MrMickeysMom Sep 2015 #3
Simply one great post. Says so much! Enthusiast Sep 2015 #10
Bernie, you've been looking great from here since I first heard of you. merrily Sep 2015 #4
Great comment, merrily. Same here! sabrina 1 Sep 2015 #5
+100%! Enthusiast Sep 2015 #9
and something i noticed while i was there retrowire Sep 2015 #6
'You guys ready to make a Political Revolution?.... You've come to the right place!' tomm2thumbs Sep 2015 #7
Enthusiasm for a candidate is the equivalent of momentum in football. Enthusiast Sep 2015 #8

retrowire

(10,345 posts)
6. and something i noticed while i was there
Mon Sep 14, 2015, 12:29 AM
Sep 2015

not just Bernie supporters filled those seats, there were plenty of people there who had not decided yet and wanted to hear him speak.

that's good stuff.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
8. Enthusiasm for a candidate is the equivalent of momentum in football.
Mon Sep 14, 2015, 10:20 AM
Sep 2015

If you don't have it, you better get some. [url=http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons.php][img][/img][/url]

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