The demand to see Bernie Sanders is so high that his
campaign was forced to move two rallies in South Carolina to larger
locations.
In a statement, the Sanders campaign announced that
two upcoming rallies in South Carolina had to be moved to larger venues
after crowd projections outgrew the original locations.
The Sanders campaign announced, “With turnout
projections mounting, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign has shifted the
location of Sunday’s rally in Charleston, South Carolina, to the
Charleston Convention Center. The two-day swing includes stops in
Greenville, Columbia and Sumter.”
Bernie Sanders has found fantastic success in red
states. Sanders has drawn big crowds in Texas and Louisana, and he drew a
then 2016 record crowd when 11,000 showed up to support him at a rally in Arizona.
There is a valuable lesson about the generalities of
political polarization in what Sen. Sanders is accomplishing. The
Sanders message that the government must work for ordinary Americans and
that the billionaires and special interests must be defeated in order
to return power back to the people is a natural fit for many residents
of red states.
Red state Democrats who get little attention from
the national Democratic Party are coming out in droves to hear a
presidential candidate ask them for their support. The message in both
the Obama 2008 campaign and what Sanders is doing in 2016 is that
Democrats shouldn’t limit themselves to a box of blue states and a few
swing states.
A liberal economic message can be popular in all
parts of the country. Sen. Sanders is leading a political grassroots
revolution, and it is logical that some of the people who would be most
willing to join the cause are the ones who have experienced the tyranny
of the wingnut billionaires first hand in their own states.
Bernie Sanders is building a national movement of
people in both red and blue states who are fed up with a corrupt system
that is being controlled by a handful of billionaire donors.
Senator Sanders is challenging the billionaires on their own turf, and judging from the response of the people, he’s winning.
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