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Related: About this forumNY 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=0snip
Bernie Sanderss 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 hes 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
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Mufaddal
(1,021 posts)1. lol "surprising gains with less aflluent whites"
"Surprising"? Who the heck do they think was voting him into office over and over again from Vermont?
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)2. Hey, it's the New York Times - paper of record for the 1% eom
smokey nj
(43,853 posts)3. NYT: Bernie Sanders puts his pants on one leg at a time.
Ed Suspicious
(8,879 posts)4. He gained this poor white guy at the get-go.