Bernie Sanders attracting a crowd 5,000 in Louisiana … seen as a threat to US corporate establishment.
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So, people first started realizing something was going on with his candidacy with these unusually large crowds, outsized crowds compared to the rest of the presidential field in either party, people that were turning out to see Bernie in liberal strongholds.
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Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaks in Dallas, Texas. ( Photo credit: Mike Stone/Reuters)But then that script got flipped on its head, because Bernie Sanders wasn`t just going to liberal strongholds. He went to, let`s say, Phoenix, Arizona. Red state Phoenix, Arizona. Bernie Sanders turned out 11,000 people to see him in conservative Phoenix, Arizona.
He then went to Houston, Texas. And 5,000 people turned out to see him in Houston. And then he went to Dallas, Texas. Another 8,000 people turned out to see him in Dallas. Nobody is ever going to call Dallas, Texas, a liberal stronghold, right?
But now, Bernie Sanders iced the cake, because last night, Bernie Sanders went to Louisiana. He went to the Pontchartrain Center, in Kenner, Louisiana, and nobody knew whether he would be able to turn out another one of his Bernie-sized giant crowds in the Deep South, right? Not just the deep red state but in the deepest Deep South.
But hours before Bernie Sanders was due to speak in Louisiana people started lining up. By the time he was ready to start speaking in this state where President Obama lost to Mitt Romney by 18 points. By the time he was ready to start speaking, there were between 4,000 and 5,000 people turned out in Louisiana, to see this liberal 73-year-old independent socialist from Vermont. They were there to cheer their guts out for him.
