On the Road: Wildcats Go Wild for Bernie

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With momentum building for a grassroots political revolution, more than 3,000 sign-waving supporters of Bernie Sanders squeezed into a gymnasium at the University of New Hampshire on Sunday night.

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"What a fantastic turnout," said the frontrunner in a string of recent voter surveys in New Hampshire's first-in-the-nation presidential primary. "This is the largest turnout for any presidential candidate in New Hampshire," Sanders said.

"Some people say young people are apathetic," he added. "It sounds to me like you are ready to transform America," he told the cheering crowd of students and others in the basketball gym where the UNH Wildcats play.

Bernie Sanders at UNHFor more than an hour, Sanders railed against tax breaks for billionaires in a country where children go hungry. He called for tuition-free public colleges instead of pouring money into jailing more people than any other nation on earth. He blasted job-killing trade deals that send good-paying jobs to low-wage countries overseas and threw millions of Americans out of work. When the crowd chanted "USA, USA, USA," Sanders agreed. "We need an economy that works for ordinary Americans and not just the people on top."

The appearance at the Durham, New Hampshire, campus capped a two-day swing through New Hampshire.

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