{"id":10036,"date":"2018-10-20T10:43:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=10036"},"modified":"2018-10-20T10:54:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:54:31","slug":"were-voting-them-out-what-it-looked-like-when-horde-of-hoosiers-marched-with-bernie-sanders-to-early-voting-site-after-indiana-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2018\/10\/20\/were-voting-them-out-what-it-looked-like-when-horde-of-hoosiers-marched-with-bernie-sanders-to-early-voting-site-after-indiana-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We&#8217;re Voting Them Out&#8217;: What It Looked Like When Horde of Hoosiers Marched With Bernie Sanders to Early-Voting Site After Indiana Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"field-wrapper-attribution\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-date field--type-datestamp field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><span class=\"pb-timestamp\"><span class=\"date-display-single\">October 19, 2018\u00a0<\/span><\/span>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Common Dreams<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-subtitle field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div>\n<h4>&#8220;This year, things are going to change. We need to have the highest voter turnout in history.&#8221;<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-authors\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields\">\n<div class=\"grouping-prefix\">by\u00a0<span class=\"pb-byline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/author\/jake-johnson-staff-writer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jake Johnson, staff writer<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"shr_canvas2\" class=\"shareaholic-canvas shareaholic-ui shareaholic-resolved-canvas ng-scope\" data-app-id=\"6840204\" data-app-id-name=\"headline_above_content\" data-app=\"share_buttons\" data-title=\"'We're Voting Them Out': What It Looked Like When Horde of Hoosiers Marched With Bernie Sanders to Early-Voting Site After Indiana Rally\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/10\/19\/were-voting-them-out-what-it-looked-when-horde-hoosiers-marched-bernie-sanders-early\" data-summary=\"\">\n<div class=\"ng-scope shareaholic-share_buttons\" translate=\"no\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-container shareaholic-ui shr-no-print shareaholic-flat shareaholic- shareaholic-block shareaholic-horizontal shareaholic-mini\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-wrapper shareaholic-ui\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-animation-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-buttons-heading shareaholic-custom\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"ng-scope\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"shareaholic-share-button-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-article-img field--type-image field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"caption-processed\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/cd_large\/public\/headlines\/screen_shot_2018-10-19_at_4.43.47_pm.png?itok=rj2xdc2n\" alt=\"march to vote\" width=\"955\" height=\"500\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-main-caption field--type-text-long field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p><em>&#8220;Trump and Republicans don&#8217;t want you to vote this November. I have some bad news for them: we&#8217;re heading to the polls and we&#8217;re voting them out,&#8221; Sen. Bernie Sanders wrote on Twitter. (Photo: Bernie Sanders\/Twitter)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>With the GOP currently waging a massive and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/10\/19\/gop-candidate-also-overseeing-georgia-elections-107000-voters-purged-yet-another\">racist war on voting rights in Georgia<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/republicans-have-a-secret-weapon-in-the-midterms-voter-suppression\">throughout the nation<\/a>\u00a0ahead of next month&#8217;s crucial midterm elections, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) held a get-out-the-vote rally in Indiana on Friday and led hundreds of enthusiastic Hoosiers to a nearby polling station bearing some &#8220;bad news&#8221; for President Donald Trump and the Republicans: &#8220;We&#8217;re heading to the polls and we&#8217;re voting them out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\">\n<p>By the time the Sanders-led crowd reached the polling place\u2014which was less than a mile away from the rally site in Bloomington, where the Vermont senator stumped for Democratic House candidate Liz Watson\u2014people were lined up around the block waiting to cast their early ballots.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In 2014 we had the lowest voter turnout since WWII. This year, things are going to change. We need to have the highest voter turnout in history,&#8221; Sanders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BernieSanders\/status\/1053306809228976129\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter following the Bloomington rally, which\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AriRabinHavt\/status\/1053305841355505664\">drew an enormous crowd<\/a>. &#8220;If we do that, I&#8217;m absolutely convinced that we&#8217;re going to end one-party rule in Washington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Indiana was just the first stop on Sanders&#8217; nationwide tour ahead of the Nov. 6 midterm elections. The Vermont senator is also set to make appearances in Michigan, Iowa South Carolina, Wisconsin, Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and California over the coming week.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders&#8217; efforts to drum up voter enthusiasm and drive massive turn out comes as Republicans are working relentlessly to do the opposite by imposing &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/republicans-have-a-secret-weapon-in-the-midterms-voter-suppression\">a byzantine array of voter restrictions<\/a>&#8221; and blatantly purging\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/news\/2018\/10\/19\/gop-candidate-also-overseeing-georgia-elections-107000-voters-purged-yet-another\">hundreds of thousands of voters<\/a>\u00a0from the rolls ahead of next month&#8217;s elections.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anyone who tries to suppress the vote is simply a coward,&#8221; Sanders\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenSanders\/status\/1050784840797306880\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter last week. &#8220;If you can&#8217;t win an election based on your ideas, then get the hell out of politics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-copyright-cond\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"field field--name-field-copyright field--type-text field--label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field__items\">\n<div class=\"field__item even\"><em>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"field-wrapper-fundraising\" class=\"field-wrapper content-container clearfix\">\n<div class=\"content-prompt clearfix\">\n<div class=\"cta-content-block-one\">\n<div class=\"card card-pink\">\n<div class=\"card-header\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 19, 2018\u00a0by Common Dreams &#8220;This year, things are going to change. We need to have the highest voter turnout in history.&#8221; by\u00a0Jake Johnson, staff writer &#8220;Trump and Republicans don&#8217;t want you to vote this November. 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