Sen.Sanders draws big crowds in Mass. campaign swing. 20,000+ at the BCEC

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Last edited Sat Oct 3, 2015, 11:39 PM - Edit history (8)

This story has been updated with info from Bernie’s official campaign.
http://thebernreport.com/over-20000-showed-up-to-feel-the-bern-in-boston/

Boston was Feeling The Bern today perhaps more than any other city Bernie Sanders has been to yet. Early estimates put the crowd inside at 26,000 plus jammed into the Boston Convention Center and another six to eight thousand in an overflow area that wish they’d shown up earlier. Bernie’s campaign however has come out with a figure that the crowd was over 20,000. So we’ll say the crowd was between 20K and 32K. Either way it’s still a whole lot of Berners.


Bernie Sanders addressed a near-capacity crowd of 20,000 at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/03/sanders-draws-big-crowds-massachusetts-campaign-swing/VJQi4dKZYpJoaEeitAQdDO/story.html


The BCEC ran out of room for all of Bernie's supporters. That's okay we took it to the streets!
https://twitter.com/MetUnity


Overflow Crowd
https://twitter.com/doxmit

Boston Goes Bananas For Bernie Sanders As 20,000+ Show Up For Bay State Rally
Sen. Bernie Sanders reminded the media of why he is the real phenom of the 2016 presidential campaign by drawing a crowd of 20,000+ to a rally in Boston, MA.

According to the Sanders campaign:

Building a grassroots movement in this key Super Tuesday primary state, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Saturday was greeted by more than 20,000 cheering and chanting supporters at a rally inside the sprawling Boston Convention and Exhibition Center and in an overflow area outside.

“Boston, thank you. What a huge crowd,” Sanders said when he took the stage. “We are running a peoples campaign and while the millionaires and billionaires have something we don’t have we have something they don’t have. Look around this room,” Sanders said.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/03/boston-bananas-bernie-sanders-20000-show-bay-state-rally.html


https://twitter.com/pbalonon_rosen

Link to some video of Bernie speaking to the overflow crowd outside
https://twitter.com/JamesPindell


I love the expression as @berniesanders pauses to let us go bananas. Amazing speech.
https://twitter.com/thebigmic33

More video of Bernie speaking outside
Best part of @BernieSanders' speech to the 4,000 people who watched his rally from outside
https://twitter.com/M_Denigris/status/650479882112212992

Thank you HooptieWagon

[daleanime]

1. How does a "near-capacity crowd".....

have overflow?

[cal04]

2. That's what I thought while posting but I guess

someone didn't look over their article very well

[SoapBox]

3. The article is a bit early...

Considering he's still speaking.

[Omaha Steve]

4. I see several PoC in the photos

[Ed Suspicious]

6. Yup. Not that I'm counting, because that would be ridiculous, but it looks like they didn't get the

message.

[Marty McGraw]

9. Seriously, though

What is the Census numbers of AA individuals living in the US. Does it seem that proportional Representation is close to what is shown at the rallies?

I'm sure a stigma factor has to play in as well. But I would think we will be seeing more of that break soon too

[Ed Suspicious]

5. I thought I read earlier that they were expecting 6,000.

[cal04]

7. That was the Springfield rally

http://www.democraticunderground.com/128057846
Speaking to a crowd of 6,000 supporters, the Vermont senator stressed that his campaign is different from others as it's "designed not only to elect someone president of the United States, but to build a political movement."

[Ed Suspicious]

8. Thanks.

[Enthusiast]

10. Kicked and recommended!