Bernie Sanders's Political Revolution Enters Phase Two
Senator Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont and 2016 Democratic presidential candidate, greets attendees after speaking during a Meskwaki Nation Town Meeting at the Meskwaki Tribal Center in Tama, Iowa, U.S., on Friday, Sept. 4, 2015. Sanders said yesterday he doesn't have a foreign policy section on his website's issues page because one of his campaign's problems is that "our support is growing faster than our political infrastructure."
Photographer: BloombergEver since the crowds started showing up, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has made a point of saying that the media has no idea why Americans wanted to join the political revolution.
He brought it up again last Thursday, during a town hall in Grinnell, Iowa, a college town with a population of about 9,000. It was his first town hall in the state after a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll showed him trailing Hillary Clinton by just seven points (a new Quinnipiac poll out Thursday shows him in a statistical dead heat with Clinton in the state). Like many Sanders events in recent months, the campaign had moved the venue to accommodate the larger-than-expected crowd, which meant that the event was taking place outside in a park despite the heat. Not that it fazed the crowd of hundreds, most of them white college students, or Sanders himself, who grew increasingly sweaty as the event progressed.