Video from Bernie rally in Tampa today. Huge crowd and noisy.

[madfloridian]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511465744

[Lorien]

1. I do wish his Orlando rally had been held indoors at a later hour

It was a 3pm rally but organizers advertised it as starting at noon. And it was held in a (very hot and sunny) open field in Kissimmee, a smaller, very redneck town South of Orlando with horrid driving conditions. 4,000 did show up, though (I'm sure it would have been 4x that if it were held on and evening or weekend in Orlando). A cop there told me "Everyone at this event has been so nice! Not like that Trump rally we worked recently. Those people were NOT so nice!"

[madfloridian]

2. Yes, I agree...85 degrees and sunny means really hot with added humidity.

The Tampa one was advertised for 4, but really wasn't until 7.

Probably discouraged some from going.

[Lorien]

3. That's something they need to remedy

they had bands playing at earbleed levels for hours before it started. I think that caused some of the older people and those with kids to leave before that rally started. They advertised food and drinks for sale at the event, but they only had one water table and one wood fired pizza tent, each with three workers. The lines were insanely long for each. With all the food trucks around here, it wouldn't have taken much effort to get a fleet of them to line up there. There was no excuse for the painfully loud music (so bad that even my friend who has regular rock concerts in her house couldn't handle it), or the organizers neglect for writing "event begins at noon" instead of "Doors open at noon. Event begins at 3pm". Sadly *every* Dem event that I've attended over the past 25 years here has been similarly poorly handled. We really need better local organizers!

[madfloridian]

4. Loud bands...would get on my nerves.

Yes, better organization. Just remember those that many of these are newbies to politics. The experienced FL Dems are nearly all Hillary folks.

[Peace Patriot]

5. Wonderful crowd! His best stump speech ever!

He smacks Trump upside the head, and has a beautiful conclusion about "love trumping hatred." I quote more of it at that DU link.

[madfloridian]

6. It was a great speech.

[madfloridian]

7. Really did amaze me to see this many.

We don't see anything about Bernie on TV and his name is not mentioned on newscasts except quickly and casually after a debate or something.

A couple of the local stations really enjoyed the rally and excitement....they were like so surprised!