Slate: Polls Say Bernie Is More Electable Than Hillary. Don’t Believe Them.

[factfinder_77]

What they really show is a candidate who hasn’t been attacked.

Basically, if you were designing the perfect target for Republicans—a candidate who proudly links socialist economics to hippie culture, libertinism, left-wing foreign policy, new-age nonsense, and contempt for bourgeois values—you’d create Bernie Sanders. Clinton could have attacked these weaknesses in the primary—her supporters had an opposition research file on Sanders’ “associations with communism”—but she didn’t. In a general election, Republicans wouldn’t hesitate.


Would a GOP assault along these lines hurt Sanders? Absolutely. Start with his spending plans. Two months ago, an Associated Press-GfK poll asked Americans about Sanders’ proposal to replace “the private health insurance system … with a single government-run and taxpayer-funded plan” that “would cover medical, dental, vision, and long-term care services.” A 39 percent plurality favored the idea. Then the poll asked people whether they’d still support the plan if it meant “your own taxes would increase.” Suddenly, the plurality disappeared: Only 28 percent still favored the plan; 39 percent opposed it. When the poll mentioned that people would have to “give up other coverage like employer coverage” as part of the government-run system, again, 39 percent opposed it, while only 28 percent supported it.


Surveys by Vox and Morning Consult got similar results. In late January, 54 percent of registered voters said they would support “a single-payer health care system, in which all Americans would get their health insurance from one government plan that is financed by taxes.” Fifty-eight percent said they would support “the government using taxes to pay tuition at public colleges and universities in order to make college free for students.” But in April, when the same pollster asked voters how much they were willing to pay each year in additional federal taxes to fund these programs, only 15 percent and 17 percent, respectively, were willing to pay more than $1,000 for the health care plan and the free college system. “That’s well short of how much more the average taxpayer would pay under [Sanders’] tax plan,” Vox noted.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/04/polls_say_bernie_is_more_electable_than_hillary_don_t_believe_them.html

[SheenaR]

1. Lol

Guess David Brock doesn't count

- asking for medical records implying he was too old
- comparing him to Hugo Chavez
- paying people to troll Bernie supporters online
- attacking Bernie's current FBI investigation (oh wait... wrong person)

Bring it on Republicans.

[northernsouthern]

2. Funny thing about that.

Obama did good in the polls too, Hillary did not, she beat McCain by a total of one poll by the time she pulled out, and her numbers were dropping. I would say that is an indication that the polls may show that Bernie is the best option, while Hillary is tanking...

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/25/sanders-still-strongest-candidate-new-poll-shows-trump-and-clinton-near-tie

Be careful of what you are reading since the Correct the Record people are out patrolling the net right now posting false narratives.

[HooptieWagon]

3. Speaking of Brock's Socks...

OP registered on DU 3 weeks ago. 7 hides in 160 posts is numbers a disruptive troll typically racks up.

[northernsouthern]

4. I just mention it because...

On some sites the whole meta thing is not allowed, so I am never sure how much I can say with out saying too much. I just leave it at reminding people it is going on in places.