Just started a random discussion with three middle aged ladies

[Tarheel_Dem]

7. You probably need to read this about "thousands of people".

Bernie Sanders is drawing big crowds -- but how long will they stick around?
August 5, 2015


The impressive swarm recalls the hordes attracted by another underdog, then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, and, before that, Howard Dean, a Vermonter who climbed from nowhere to emerge, for a time, as the Democratic front-runner in 2004.

It is, in many ways, familiar. In 1980, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts rose from the left to torment the party establishment favorite, a role California’s Alan Cranston played in the 1984 race. “There’s always restiveness on the left,” said Joe Trippi, who managed Dean’s presidential campaign. “Always.”

Clinton enjoys other advantages. She is no stranger to the black and Latino communities, two pillars of Democratic support and major voting blocs once the nominating fight moves past the largely white confines of Iowa and New Hampshire.

Sanders, an independent most of his political life, is competing against a Democratic stalwart who has built relationships in the party going back more than 40 years. That’s not easy to overcome.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-sanders-democrats-analysis-20150729-story.html

Serious question. Do you think the Sanders "insurgency" will play out like 2008, or more like 2004? I already know, but just interested in your thoughts?