Speaking from an apartment of one of the Kickoff House Parties Sen Bernie Sanders addressed more than 100,000 attendees at 3500 different venues in all fifty states. I hosted an event on Nantucket as an out-islander, but the house held as many as it could with 21 people, all women except 2 males(including me).
He struck a chord with both those in their 20s or thirties as well as those over 65. We had house guests, 2 of whom usually vote for Republicans. They were impressed with energy of their fell attendees, and all except 1 signed up to volunteer to work for the campaign.
The event was easy to set up, and was a masterpiece of organization. Using tools from berniesanders.com communication was no sweat, and if technical questions arose, an email address help@berniesanders.com returned answers within minutes to a few hours. They even gave prompt feedback when they would get an answer to you.
We had participants from Nantucket, elsewhere in Ma, Ca, NY, Pa, and Me. I was absolutely floored, and did not expect so many people would show up. It was a great night. Some pics are here .
It showed up in the preview. How about a link…
https://youtu.be/veQZc4WGy1Y
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Go to YouTube and enter “Bernie Sanders Kickoff July 29th, 2015” It’s there. Sorry for the extra work.
I was at a Kickoff House Party in Milford. Big turnout and lots of new faces.
That town went for Brown in the special and Baker last fall, if they are ready for Bernie, it proves our theory that even lefty populism is a winner with the unenrolled.
Go back to post and click the “here”. I was especially tickled by the creator of the site, “Babes For Bernie” with over 500 followers who came to the event on the 29th. Only two men and the rest women going from the youngest voters to the senior set. Sorry it took awhile to figure out a solution so you could see what went on.