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LiberalElite

(14,691 posts)
Sat Jan 30, 2016, 09:43 PM Jan 2016

NY Times: Bernie Sanders is making surprising gains with less aflluent whites

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/upshot/bernie-sanders-is-making-surprising-gains-with-less-affluent-whites.html?_r=0

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Bernie Sanders’s coalition once looked very familiar: He had strong support among well-educated and affluent liberal white voters of the sort who backed Barack Obama, Bill Bradley and Jerry Brown. He struggled among less affluent voters.

But his coalition has evolved over the last few months. He now fares much better among less affluent whites than Mr. Obama did eight years ago, suggesting he’s attracting a group that traditionally supports more moderate establishment candidates, someone like Hillary Clinton. If confirmed in the voting, it would vindicate his hope of building a progressive coalition based more on class than the coalitions put together by liberal predecessors.
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NY Times: Bernie Sanders is making surprising gains with less aflluent whites (Original Post) LiberalElite Jan 2016 OP
lol "surprising gains with less aflluent whites" Mufaddal Jan 2016 #1
Hey, it's the New York Times - paper of record for the 1% eom LiberalElite Jan 2016 #2
NYT: Bernie Sanders puts his pants on one leg at a time. smokey nj Jan 2016 #3
He gained this poor white guy at the get-go. Ed Suspicious Jan 2016 #4

Mufaddal

(1,021 posts)
1. lol "surprising gains with less aflluent whites"
Sun Jan 31, 2016, 12:07 AM
Jan 2016

"Surprising"? Who the heck do they think was voting him into office over and over again from Vermont?

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