The More Bernie Sanders Wins, the More Establishment Liberals Will Tell You He Can’t Win

[eridani]

http://inthesetimes.com/article/18844/bernie-sanders-primary-new-hampshire-hillary-clinton

Some fascinating tidbits about the Democratic primary voters from the New York Times exit poll:

72 percent of the voters said that the candidates’ issues were more important to them than the candidates’ leadership or personal qualities; only 25 percent of the voters said that the latter was more important to them. This confirms what Jedediah Purdy argued in an excellent piece contrasting Sanders’s candidacy with Obama’s candidacy. Obama’s campaign was about him; Sanders’s campaign is about the issues.

68 percent of the voters described their philosophy as either “very liberal” or “somewhat liberal.” 31 percent said it was “moderate” or “conservative.” What’s interesting about this data — beyond the leftward shift it marks — is that independents are allowed to vote in Democratic primaries in New Hampshire. In this primary, 41 percent of the voters were either independents or undeclared. That we get that kind of ideological skew in a primary that includes independents, who are often reputed to be moderates, is telling.

63 percent of the voters want to replace the current health care system with a single-payer plan.

Only 16 percent of the voters said they were getting ahead financially (as opposed to keeping steady or falling behind); Clinton did her best among those voters.

80 percent of the voters said they were very or somewhat worried about the economy; Sanders won nearly two-thirds of those voters. 20 percent of the voters said they were not too worried or not worried at all about it. Clinton won 57 percent of those voters.

Only 10 percent of the voters said terrorism was the most important issue for them.

48 percent of the voters decided upon their candidate in the last month. That suggests the race is still very fluid and that it is not until the campaigns come to the different states that voters really settle upon their choices.

[nxylas]

1. But America is a centre-right nation

It said so in Hillary's AOL ad, which I was reading while watching The Fresh Prince of Bel Air and listening to N'Sync.

[chervilant]

2. I wish we could disassociate the word

LIBERAL from the quasi-conservative, Third Way DINOs (aka "Establishment Liberals&quot who've infiltrated the Democratic Party. (TWM nailed it so many times...)

[Jester Messiah]

3. What establishment liberals?

You could count the number of actual liberals within the establishment on your hands in a snowstorm without taking off your mittens.