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Bernie Rocks Iowa City
January 30, 2016
IOWA CITY, Iowa A blast-the-rafters concert and rally for nearly 5,000 fired-up Bernie Sanders backers capped a day of campaigning across Iowa on Saturday with just 48 hours to go before Iowas first-in-the-nation precinct caucuses kick off the process of picking a Democratic Party presidential nominee.
The concert Sanders biggest crowd ever in Iowa featured Vampire Weekend, Foster the People and other musical acts. Before, Sanders spoke to the University of Iowa audience about income and wealth inequality, the planetary crisis of global warming, making public colleges and universities tuition-free and other issues.
A new poll released on Saturday by The Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics showed Sanders come-from-nowhere candidacy had turned into a too-close-to call contest with Hillary Clinton, once the pundits presumptive nominee. The poll showed Clinton and Sanders in a virtual tie, a far cry from her 41-point lead when Sanders began his campaign eight months ago ...
From Bernie's web site: https://berniesanders.com/press-release/bernie-rocks-iowa-city/
From Sanders scores biggest crowd yet: http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/01/30/sanders-scores-biggest-crowd-yet-university-iowa/79582812/
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom
TBF
(32,051 posts)we can do this.
cascadiance
(19,537 posts)Go Hawks today and go Bernie too!!! Even though the Hawks don't play in the Fieldhouse now like they did then.
TBF
(32,051 posts)I am a UW-Madison grad myself. In this case I will certainly say "Go Hawks". Anything for Bernie.