I hear this ...

[sheshe2]

Bernie is getting 10K 20K 30K 50K 100K at all his rallies. A simple question. Where are the votes?

[BootinUp]

1. Kids like to go to rallies. nt

[teamster633]

3. Not much green bud in a voting booth.

[sheshe2]

8. Green bud?

I am getting old. You mean pot?

[BootinUp]

14. be my guess, lol.

[sheshe2]

19. Cool!

I did that a lot. Just getting old with the lingo.

Thanks BootinUp!

[teamster633]

20. I'm getting old, too.

That's what we used to call good pot. Now that it's been commoditized I'm sure it's got some Starbuckian names.

[puffy socks]

15. that's it !

They forgot to vote! It's that short term memory loss problem.

[AuntPatsy]

2. Good question, deserves satisfying answer...

[DURHAM D]

4. Anarchists don't vote.

It is against their religion.

[Ellen Forradalom]

5. I know someone who is going to the rally

because it's free and bands are playing.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. Voting is hard, after you've been screaming at a 10k 20k....100k rally, doncha know?

[sheshe2]

12. Lol~

[bluestateguy]

7. "Wait, when's election day?" "Where's the app for that?"

nt

[sheshe2]

21. Internet!!!!!

It is all you need.

[bluestateguy]

25. No, no. Internet is so 90's and 2000's.

This is the 2010's. If there is not an app for it, it's retro and old-fashioned.

[puffy socks]

9. Which rallies are these?

Half of these kids aren't going to rallies to vote they're going for the party atmosphere otherwise he'd have the votes...either that or they are totally unimpressed with him and leave believing the old man has lost his mind and either vote for Hillary or stay home and play video games in their parent's basement .

[caquillo]

16. Agreed

The rallies (to these kids) are mainly to party and fraternize. 'Bernie Sanders' is merely the latest fad. By next year, they'll have moved on to something/-one else. That's why the reasonable ones among us didn't give the nomination to the flash in the pan.

[upaloopa]

10. I think that many of those at the rallies have no clue about how elections work. Until the

"revolution" they had no interest in politics. Bernie promises them the world yet doesn't explain how you have to go about getting there.
He's a guy who has been in congress for 24 years with little to show for it.


Bernie went for campuses were he could get large crowds and ignored us older people and people of color. So he gets a large group of one voting block with not a good record of voting. That's why he lost.

[anotherproletariat]

11. I'm a college student, with lots of friends who are Bernie supporters. One group of friends has been

to 4 different rally's in the past week. I think many in his crowd are the same people over and over again.

[caquillo]

22. Are you open to them about your support for Shillary?

I mean Killary.... I mean Hillary?

[anotherproletariat]

33. Yes, at my school (in NYC) most of my friends are Hillary supporters. At home in the bay area for

summer, and my old high school friends are about 40% Sanders, 30% Hillary, and 30% uninterested. The problem with many is that they have finals next week, and several have said that they will vote "if they can".

[Her Sister]

38. lol!

Hey hey!

[DLCWIdem]

30. I wondered if some of them were the same kids at different rallies.

[OhZone]

13. I don't like to go to rallies -

but I love to vote.

[sheshe2]

18. Vote or Die~

[beachbumbob]

17. It's a social event and young people find voting hard, they have actually do

Something like register or stand in line or ask for a mail in ballot and why rallies with Bernie don't translate to votes

[Thinkingabout]

23. Morale of the story, big rallies doesn't mean big vote turn out.

[fleabiscuit]

27. Nate Silver/538 agrees with that. nt

[William769]

24. No comment.

[Agnosticsherbet]

26. Going to a rally where there is a lot of excitement requires a different type of commitment

than voting.

[redstateblues]

28. Who doesn't want to see the Dave Matthews Band for free?

[Kath1]

29. Good question.

[sheshe2]

31. Yup. ;(

[NYC Liberal]

32. They're going to rallies instead of figuring out how to vote.

That would explain why just weeks before every election, we've seen a sudden huge influx in the "Wait, I have to REGISTER to vote?! That's fascist!" and "Why don't I get to vote for the Democratic Party nominee even though I've never been a registered Democrat a day in my life?" idiots.

[sheshe2]

34. Nailed it!

[BobbyDrake]

35. Rallying is all about being with your friends and "looking cool" for being at the rally.

There's no one to perform for inside the voting booth, so they avoid it like the plague.

[Coolest Ranger]

36. They go to rallys, we go to the polls

[sheshe2]

39. Hi, CR.

You are correct.

[MBS]

37. Here's a sensible explanation

from Tamara Keith (NPR, April 2016)

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/26/475681237/campaign-mystery-why-dont-bernie-sanders-big-rallies-lead-to-big-wins

[ismnotwasm]

40. Hillary has run a deliberately more intimate campaign

She has reached out and talked to voters, listened, addressed very specific concerns. She alsocover the broader concerns.

Sanders, will his huge rallies, addresses a limited group of concerns, the same ones, over and over. It's not that they don't vote, IMO, it's that his people like rallies. There are simply not enough of them to win. They were fooled by the numbers at the rallies into thinking there were.