What It Feels Like in Those Huge Crowds for Bernie Sanders
Saturday's rally in Keene, New Hampshire, showed how much enthusiasm the Vermont senator is generating on the campaign trail.
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It's good to be the insurgent candidate. On Saturday, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders made just one public campaign stop in New Hampshire, in the city of Keene. His campaign clocked more than 750 people in the crowd; the local Keene Sentinel saw 1,000; the candidate gave the newsy promise that he would "win New Hampshire."
Within 24 hours, boosted by supporters in Progressive Democrats of America, Sanders took 41 percent of the vote at the Wisconsin Democrats' straw poll, a feature of their state convention that had heretofore received little media coverage. That news has led the Nation's website since last night, and inspired reporters to reconstruct how it happened.