There was a giant paper mache Bernie in Schenley Plaza today

I, like many Americans, am incredibly ready for a political revolution, and that revolution is coming in the form of a little bit of paper mache and a lot of hard work. It turns out that paper mache Bernie says a lot about how the Sanders campaign is being run.

What place does paper mache have in politics? Well, for organizers for Bernie in Pittsburgh, it represents a grassroots organization that is hell-bent on getting citizens young and old to show up and vote on April 26th. The paper mache Bernie was originally built by high school students and volunteers in Detroit for their primary. It has since traveled to the Get out the Vote in Ohio, and resided in Schenley Plaza today, an area of Pittsburgh well-known as a political protest hotspot.

The volunteers I spoke to in Schenley were kind, energetic, and excited to help Pennsylvanians register to vote. The deadline to vote in the primaries is this Monday, the 28th, at 5pm. PA has a closed primary, which means you MUST be registered as a member of the party who’s primary you wish to vote in. This is why it is incredibly important to first of all, register, and then secondly, double check your registration to make sure it is correct. Many voters in Arizona ran into an issue where they had been long-time Democrats, but their registration showed them as Republicans, preventing them from voting… and some suggest, losing Senator Sanders the state.

There are already many reports coming out of PA for this same thing happening—but there’s still time to check (and potentially correct) your registration. You have until Monday at 5pm, and that is why the Bernie paper mache head is on campus. The group is very adamant about registering voters, and stood outside Saturday for a few hours collecting registrations and passing out information on Sanders. If you missed your chance to hang out with a paper mache Bernie, don’t fret, they’ll be back on Monday! From 9am until roughly 3:30pm, volunteers will be registering even more people to vote. Republicans, Democrats who support Hillary… They’ll help everyone get the chance to express their right as Americans.

Literally my favorite photo from this campaign season

The Sanders and Fetterman movements have been really active on campus, hosting numerous rallies and voter registration drives, which are in sharp contrast to the Senator Clinton campaign. Today, I spoke to a Bernie volunteer who has told me that she has yet to run into a Hillary campaign worker out in the field—and she’s travelled through plenty of states. This volunteer has run into quite a few Trump, Kasich, and Cruz supporters, though.

This is highly reflected in the staggering amount of first time and veteran voters that Bernie has brought onto his side. The hashtag #StillSanders has popped up on social media, as a way to defeat the naysayers who claim that Bernie just can’t get the number of delegates to win the nomination. To be frank, the math proves those people wrong by itself (there are still more than enough delegates and superdelegates available for Bernie to win the nomination), but math doesn’t sell newspapers.  A sexy story of a comeback Senator that is here for everyone that politicians usually ignore, now that, that’s a story that sells.