On The Road: What a Week, We’re Touching a Nerve

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A long line of people snaked for blocks outside the Minneapolis American Indian Center on Sunday as another overflow crowd turned out to hear Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders talk about his Agenda for America to create jobs and rebuild the middle class.

More than 2,000 people packed into a basketball gymnasium and as many more stood outside on a cool Minnesota morning cheering loudly when the U.S. senator from Vermont thundered, “Our country belongs to all of our people and not just a handful of billionaires.”

It was the biggest turnout since last Tuesday when more than 5,000 supporters showed up to support Sanders at his formal campaign kickoff rally at a lakefront park created along Lake Champlain in Burlington when he was mayor.

In less than a week, Sanders took his message to more than 10,000 people from the packed-pews of the old South Church in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to a standing-room-only meeting at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa.

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We’re Touching a Nerve
May 30, 2015
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The big room at a community center in Iowa City was packed long before the meeting was to begin. Those who couldn’t get in — and there were a couple hundred of them — jammed shoulder-to-shoulder in the community center lobby. Inside the meeting hall, when Bernie took the stage and scanned the crowd, he was blown away. “We’re touching a nerve,” he said.

At that event near the campus of the University of Iowa and speaking later to another overflow crowd in Ames, the home of Iowa state, some of the loudest cheers were for Bernie’s proposal to make four-year colleges and universities tuition free.

The senator had been introduced at Torrents, near the university, by Cornelia Flora of the group Grassroots for Bernie. She brought the crowd to its feet when she announced, for the first time anyone ever said these words in Iowa about Bernie, “Ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the United States.”