Bernie Sanders is Too Big for Veterans Memorial Coliseum

[kenn3d]

A lot of Portlanders want to see Bernie Sanders this weekend. How many? Too many to fit in the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

The rally for the Vermont senator and surging Democratic presidential candidate is this Sunday, Aug. 9—and the campaign just announced a change of venues.

Sanders was originally scheduled to speak at the 12,888-seat Coliseum, but Sanders’ campaign today announced it's progressing (get it? GET IT?) to the nearby Moda Center, which seats 19,980.

http://www.wweek.com/portland/blog-33564-bernie_sanders_is_too_big_for_veterans_memorial_coliseum.html

Another brief local News Site article (Portland, Oregon) ... again with a surprisingly long readers' comments section, with a few detractors and many enthusiastic Sanders supporters.

[sunnystarr]

1. that's totally awesome !!! nt

[neverforget]

2. I'm bummed I'm most likely not going to be able to make it due to work.

[retrowire]

3. To quote Bernie Sanders...

"If a candidates event is too big to fail, then it is too big to fit in a coliseum!"

Or... something like that... Or was it about banks failing? lol

[jalan48]

4. I hope to go..

[joanbarnes]

5. Nary a peep from 'Lame-stream media?'

[LuvNewcastle]

6. I hope I have as much energy as Bernie

when I get to be his age. He's doing tours like a rock star with sold-out venues. I hope this is just a taste of things to come.

[aspirant]

7. Add a few Rock and/or Rap stars

that support him to the event and you could be around 100,000.

[Pauldg47]

8. Maybe he'll be able to open both stadiums and....

....televise it to the other loc.

[SoapBox]

9. Now THAT'S a great thought!

[99th_Monkey]

15. No! we don't want to have even ONE "empty seat"

or it will immediately be televi$ed on FOX & CNN as "proof"
that "Bernie Sanders couldn't even fill the venue" where he
spoke.

When I worked on RFK's campaigns in OR and CA, I sometimes
was the driver for RFKs "advance" crew, and picked up some tips
about how to choose venues, the main one being "ALWAYS book a
place where you KNOW their will be some over-flow, always."

I live in Portland, and am definitely going to be there, and I think
20,000 may be a little bit of a stretch, so I wouldn't advise having
the VMC open as well. But that's just me.

[AzDar]

10. Bernie!!

[passiveporcupine]

11. When I first read it was going to be the Coliseum,

I looked up it's capacity and thought WTF? That's too small. Even the new venue is probably too small. it should have been held at the waterfront park.

[valerief]

12. And the media still don't know he exists. nt

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

17. Oh they know he exists

they're scared of the message that has found so much support with the people. that like him.

[erronis]

19. That's right - the M$M knows that Bernie doesn't need them for winning

And they think they are god's appointed angels to spread the words of the candidates.

Bernie gets us back to the roots of democracy and avoids the flimflammery of the media barons, talking heads, and hacks. Let's hope the presages a new way of running for office!

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

20. Like I have said before.

Now is the time for a real progressive populist movement, but the message needs to be clear and not overly complex and it needs to be repeated over and over to drive it home into the minds of the people.

Then Bernie will win

[progressoid]

13. "9,000 people RSVP'd for the Rose Quarter rally within the first 48 hours "

[Pastiche423]

14. Heading out to Moda

in the am.

I aM So eXcItEd!

[punguin54]

16. Sooner or later

they will have to report the tidal wave.

[Feeling the Bern]

18. Don't hold your breath. The media has already given the nomination to HRC