218,000 tuned in tonight to hear Bernie without any ads leading up to it..almost a 1/4 mil...

[bkkyosemite]

[itsrobert]

1. If only they voted.

He would have lost by 3.5 Million votes, instead of 3.7 million.

[NanceGreggs]

2. Ouch!!!

[rhett o rick]

20. Their votes wouldn't have been counted in the worst excuse of an election system in the

modern world. But you rejoice because you knew to side with the Wealthy and Powerful. Knowing they would use their wealth to buy victory. How sad that you care nothing about democracy but only winning. You side with the Oligarchy only to be able to gloat. Those struggling among us will suffer as your friends the big corporations make bigger and bigger profits.

[sheshe2]

24. I find it sad that in every post you accuse us, everyone that is not a BSer

of siding with the wealthy and powerful. You accuse us of siding "

with the Oligarchy only to be able to gloat. Those struggling among us will suffer as your friends the big corporations make bigger and bigger profits.

Are you unemployed and uninsured now? Are you? I am. Didn't I read you vaca'ed in Europe recently? In my eyes, from where I stand, that puts you in the 1%.

I do believe you need to rethink you manta. You do not know us and have no dayum right to judge us. Trust me. You are NOT a better person than I am.

[rhett o rick]

40. I am not in the 1% which requires wealth of about 9 million dollars.

It is not rocket science to see that the wealthy have been changing laws and regulations to reduce their tax burden. They are hiding much of their assets off-shore. They have tripled their wealth in the last 30 years, not from hard work, but from avoiding paying their share of taxes. The working class has lost ground in the last 30 years. The wealthy are using our tax money to move their companies to countries where they can use slave labor.

The reason this primary has been so contentious is that those of us that want change have to fight against other Democrats that want to stay with the status quo. If they wanted change, why are they fighting the progressives so bitterly?

I have not been to Europe recently. And I have family and close friends that have either lost their home (thanks banksters) and or jobs. Others that are terribly under employed.

[eastwestdem]

31. Do you often think that someone is following you? Just curious. nt

[MaeScott]

39. What Rhett said. Truth.

[jillan]

27. He received over 12 million votes. No it's not as much as hers but 12 million votes is nothing

to ignore.

[azurnoir]

34. exactly and thank you for saying that

[itsrobert]

38. Still lost.

It wasn't close.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. Close to half Hillarys victory margin in California

[frazzled]

4. Well, given that

more than 69 million people voted Democratic in the 2008 presidential election, and 65 million in 2012 ... I'd say that even if those 218,000 don't vote this year, it will be pretty insignificant.

218,000 is three-one-hundredths of one percent of the average Democratic voting population.

[bkkyosemite]

6. That is not all of the 12 million that voted for Bernie and still will. But it is a lot of people

who tuned in to that speech on the fly. And many Pacific time weren't home yet from work.

Math can be kind of sketchy sometimes ....like in the voting process don't you agree...

[frazzled]

13. I think many of them have already flown the coop

And the more he pulls stunts like this, the more will wander off.

[Agschmid]

18. No... Math isn't sketchy at all really.

It's actually pretty scientific.

[sheshe2]

22. It is June 17th.

That is not all of the 12 million that voted for Bernie and still will.

I have no clue what your statement is suppose to mean. The primary is over. He lost.

[zappaman]

5. I went to see Roger Waters perform The Wall in Berlin after the fall

Of the Berlin Wall.
There were more people at that show, so...

[bkkyosemite]

8. and ....so.....

[zappaman]

12. Exactly. n/t

[840high]

28. and?

[zappaman]

29. Exactly. n/t

[SFnomad]

7. So way less than 1 tenth of 1 percent of the US population tuned in .. and this has you excited?

That would be well within the margin of error (if there was one) ... which means 0 people could have been watching.

[bkkyosemite]

10. You people just have to bite at something. Yes it was a lot of people...if you don't agree

so.........

[SFnomad]

14. It's just funny how such minimal news can get you people all worked up

And then someone brings you back to reality and you have a sad.

[redstateblues]

9. considering he got 12,000,000 votes in the primary

that is a huge drop off

[bkkyosemite]

11. And you expected 12,000,000 to watch LOL...

[redstateblues]

21. 218,000 is about the viewership of MSNBC

which is not very much. A lot of the debates got way more than that

[slipslidingaway]

15. Three watching here :) nt

[deathrind]

16. Wow...

Impressive. Bernie has always had a pretty good turn out to his events.

"California is clearly “Feeling The Bern”. A recent rally in Sacramento, over 20,000 people attended to support Bernie Sanders, as we expected not one major media channel was there to report on this event."

For contrast:

"On the other hand, Hillary also had a recent rally in Oakland. This rally had only 800 people in attendance, which did receive major media coverage."

[840high]

30. zap dee dum

[MyNameGoesHere]

17. I watched it to witness the spiral

into irrelevancy. I almost shed a fake tear.

[corkhead]

37. I loved the way you used the corn in it for texture. You must be very proud

of the dump you took on this thread.

[Surya Gayatri]

19. And, this is newsworthy how? Irrelevant and immaterial.

200,000+ people log on to hear defeated candidate rehash his dead-horse stump speech.

So what?

[redstateblues]

23. Bernie's leverage became much weaker with such a low number of viewers

[glennward]

25. And half of them tuned out before the important part of his message.

He wasted valuable time repeating his stump speech in the beginning. When it sounded so familiar most viewer including the networks covering him tuned out. The ones that tuned out missed the most important part of his speech about voting and participating in state and local elections. After all that is where any true solutions will be started.

[Wednesdays]

41. You mean, YOU tuned out... right?

Reminds me of a quote attributed to Yogi Berra,
"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

[Sunlei]

26. I would have watched live too, but I didn't know he was going to be on

oh well, had to sleep anyway and it was easy to view the rerun. Sanders did great, he will be right there standing shoulder to shoulder with all our party team.

[felix_numinous]

32. K&R

[scscholar]

33. Too bad so many of us are stuck with connecitons too slow...

to watch video. I'm stuck in the CONservative-ruled Seattle which has crappy Internet access because those Republicans hate the Internet. Hate the Internet. I hate dial-up at home right now. They hate the Internet so much. And, Microsoft's anti-Internet stance just makes it worse. Microsoft hates the Internet.

[pat_k]

35. And I'm sure many more streamed it later on.

[pnwmom]

36. I did, hoping he'd say something different than his usual thing. He didn't. n/t