82 Register 1500 showup to hear Dean tonight

[NewHampster]

In New Hampshire they like to listen two sometimes three times before letting the press decide the election.

http://blog.deanforamerica.com/archives/003353.html

[slinkerwink]

1. those NH voters are sure damn independent!

;-)

[ozone_man]

2. Momentum shifting back to Dean.

I think New Hampshirites are getting serious now and starting to cut through the bull that they have been served by the media.

[MODemocrat]

23. Smart people think for themselves

and thank goodness there are many. It's not as easy to brainwash people as it once was. No doubt the bar has been lowered to an all time low under the present administration.
Dean :yourock:

[Hoppin_Mad]

3. Here's the pic !

Which doesn't show the two overflow rooms full of people !

We're BAAAAAAACCCCCCKKKKKK ! :-)

[NewHampster]

5. We've turned but don't let up

the odds of passing Kerry on his way down are still slim but well worth no sleep for the next few days.

the Doctor is In!

[quaker bill]

9. Sure seems like it.

I had a feeling the rebound was just around the corner. Tweety had a NH focus group on tonight. The results there indicated that the media overkill on the speech has actually gotten more folks interested in Dean.

As I recall it Journalists are about the only profession that consistently ranks lower in public esteem than "politician".

[Melinda]

4. And here is what those actually in the IOWA Caucus audience saw & heard!!

"From the Crowd - What we heard"

Watch!!!!!!!!

http://www.idiomstudio.com
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And from my inbox:

TAKE HEART!

Patty's description of the rally:

I'm back home now from Iowa and I just wanted to toss this out there for those of you who weren't there (and for the members of the media who were not actually there as well):

What you may have seen or heard on TV/radio was edited in such a way that it sounded like Howard was a raving lunatic.

But that's only half of the story.

What the media and pundits failed to capture, almost to a one, was the crowd.

I was THERE, folks.

I was standing 20 feet from the stage.

The crowd was enthusiastic when Tom Harkin took the stage, but they went *wild* when Howard appeared. It shouldn't be surprising. Many of us had been there for a week or longer, waking early, standing out in the freezing cold to show the morning Iowa commuters our Dean signs, walking door to door, calling likely Dem voters till 9:00 at
night, crawling the bars to get his name out and persuade a few more Iowans to our side, and even doing housekeeping chores around the Iowa HQ. We were bleary-eyed and exhausted and overwrought over not placing at least 2nd.

As Charlie Brown said once, "How could we lose when we were so sincere?"

People were shouting the whole time -- shouting at the top of their lungs, whistling, and clapping, rattling cans. Some were even using megaphones.

Flags were waving, pompons were shaking, and feet were stomping to the point that the room vibrated. There were probably over 1000 people elbow to elbow in that room that night.

The crowd was so unbelievably loud I could barely hear myself think, let alone hear what Howard was saying.

Trust me -- it was DEAFENING.

The media filtered OUT the crowd -- probably done with the intention of capturing what Howard said clearly! -- but that also meant that inadvertently most of what one hears is Howard and NOT who and what Howard was responding TO.

I saw his mouth moving, but I could only guess what he was saying most of the time. He was responding to us, his supporters out on the floor, and to our shouts and our energy.

So don't trust what you read or even what you see/hear in the media.

Trust the word of someone who was actually there.

[NewHampster]

6. Thank you for that

[candy331]

13. I thought about the campaign buying 15-30 minutes of air time

and maybe C-span and letting people who were actually there tell their story to the public. The media has to be put on notice that people are on to them and expect news reporting and not tabloid sensationalism. They could choose more female but a couple males also. I'm posting this idea on the blog, what do you think folks?

[Melinda]

15. I say go for it candy, and thanks!!

:hug:

[intheozone]

18. WoooHooo! Great idea Candy

Yes, that is great idea. We need to drive the point right up the media's asses!

[MoonAndSun]

7. Dean is scrappy and a fighter, he will not go down without a

fight, that is why I will support him until the end, good or bad.

[EXE619K]

8. Woo Hoo!

Here comes the Doc in his Truckasaurus!

[Gin]

11. I just read Kerry post about him throwing his ribbons in protest of the

Viet Nam war...I feel the same way about this war. So my protest instead of ribbons is supporting the man willing to stand up to the thief in the white house.

Why would a man who went through the horrors of war vote for another one?

[KaraokeKarlton]

10. I heard reports of 2000 people

but 1500 is good too. The number of actual people is probably somewhere between those two figures. Keene is NOT a big city or anything either.

[truth2power]

12. I said this on another thread

The corporate media don't want Dean. Let's hope the Dems have more sense than to buy the load of bovine excrement they're peddling.

[NewHampster]

14. The Webcast feed failed... hmmmm

I wonder who pulled the plug lest my fellow granite staters see and hear the truth.

[Melinda]

16. Save the clip to your hard drive.

Just right click on the link you wish to download ( I took the 500 kb media player file); save target as, and then save on your pc. You can then share it, or watch as many times as you like. If I had the bandwidth, I'd upload it so I could share it too. Hope this helps. :hi:

[NewHampster]

19. No - the Webcast of the Keene event tonight failed

they posted it on the nh site as they tried to get it up.

http://www.deanfornewhampshire.com/

I figure someone pulled the plug.

[WI_DEM]

17. I truly think the overkill with the Dean "speech" on Monday

will backfire. Dean did himself a world of good yesterday with his sit down with his wife and Diane Sawyer and in his debate. I think NH is going to give him another look and the size of this crowd is a good indication that all is not lost.

[Melinda]

20. This thread needs a......

:kick:

[quaker bill]

21. The rebound is on it way

We will do well in NH next week!

[Guaranteed]

22. KICK!! for momentum nt