Bernie Sanders Packs 'Em in for Phoenix Event

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders booked his biggest speaking gig to date, drawing some 11,000 activists to an overflow room at the Phoenix Convention Center. Sanders speech fortuitously coincided with the annual gathering of “NetRoots Nation,” a national meeting of thousands of leftist activists, bloggers and special interests.

The presence of so many leftist activists in town for the conference no doubt spiked attendance for Sanders speech. Its hard to imagine an aging hippy ticking through a list of left-wing policy issues attracting anyone but the most addicted political junkie.

That...