According to Yahoo! News
A poster on Reddit started making calls for volunteers to come to Iowa last Friday. In the first 3 days they got 160 signups of “road trips” of volunteers heading into rural Iowa. In the NEXT 2 days they got another 40 groups going in.
Bernie Sanders is getting a surge of volunteers in rural Iowa from Reddit
In the past five days, a group of people on the online forum Reddit have been working to mobilize out-of-state volunteers to flood rural Iowa on behalf of Sen. Bernie Sanders as his presidential campaign heads into the Iowa caucuses on Feb. 1.
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We need your help. We’re pretty well-off in the big cities, but those make up only a number of caucus events. There are dozens of other caucuses throughout the state, and those regions are currently significantly understaffed,” Rhodes wrote. “This project is intended to bring much-needed reinforcements into the understaffed rural areas of Iowa.”
By Wednesday, Rhodes said there were more than 200 sign-ups, though he claimed that figure really meant a higher number of volunteers.
“These people, some of them are submitting with three-four volunteers at a time. They’re saying, ‘Hey, I have a car, and I’m bringing three of my friends,’” Rhodes explained.
If this trend continues through today, they are likely sending between 500 and 1000 volunteers into rural Iowa to help move people to the Caucuses.
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