Which candidate do you think is bringing in the most "new voters" ?

[kentuck]

Or are all of them just recycling old voters?

As a hypothetical, do you think Hillary would have done much better last election if she had chosen Bernie Sanders as her VP rather than Tim Kaine of VA?

Is it good or bad to be able to bring in new voters to a Party?

Do you believe Donald Trump is bringing in new voters to vote for him?

What is your opinion?

[George II]

1. In New Hampshire the claim was made that Sanders was responsible for the record turnout...

...in their primary last week.

That may be indirectly true. More people turned out than in 2016 but most of them voted against Sanders. He got about 150,000 votes in 2016, only 75,000 this year. It appears he inspires people to vote, but not for the reason people would like us to think.

[DanTex]

4. There's no way to cast a vote "against" someone in a primary. That's not a thing.

You can only vote "for" people, and Bernie got the most votes "for" him in NH. And in Iowa.

[George II]

5. More voters chose someone other than him, MANY more than in the past. That speaks volumes.....

....and he lost half of his voters than in the past.

I know the refrain will be "but there were only two in the race", which is illogical.

[DanTex]

6. Umm, there were a lot more candidates running. So, yeah, the vote gets split more ways.

It's like, if you have a pie, and you slice it in half, you get bigger pieces than if you slice it six ways.

[George II]

7. Um, that implies that those others voted for him grudgingly, correct?

[DanTex]

8. LOL. You know, a lot of voters like more than just one of the candidates.

Most do, actually. This idea that everyone who votes for, say, Pete must dislike, say, Amy, is just bizarre. Actually, most Pete voters would enthusiastically support Amy, and vice versa. It's just that, for whatever reason, they decided that they liked Pete more. If Pete dropped out, I'm sure a lot of his voters would go on to support Amy (or another candidate), and I can't imagine very many at all would do so "grudgingly".

A vote for Pete is not a vote "against" Amy or Bernie or Biden or anyone else. It's a vote for Pete.

[George II]

17. Clearly a lot less "liked" him this year than before, in fact half as many.

[DanTex]

18. Actually, the opposite is true. Bernie leads all other candidates in head-to-head polling.

He never lead in head-to-head polling in 2016. He's more liked this time than last time. Obviously, with six candidates in the field, the number of voters who have Bernie as their first choice is going to be lower. But overall he's doing better than 2016.

[George II]

20. So, about 5-10% MORE show up, he gets half as many as last time, and "he's doing better".

[DanTex]

21. I get the feeling Bernie could win the nomination and then go on to defeat Trump,

and some people would still be insisting that nobody likes him and he's not electable and he's lost his support from 2016.

[Garrett78]

14. 2.5 times as many major candidates, in fact.

[msongs]

16. there you go again using facts and math lol nt

[brooklynite]

13. The MOST votes when your vote count is half of 2016 is not MORE votes...

[CalFione]

2. I don't think Bernie would've accepted the VP role in 2016

[redstatebluegirl]

3. If the people someone is adding are people who follow only that person and can't see further than

that we don't need them. We need Democrats who know that sometimes we get what we want and sometimes we get some of what we want but it is always better than the alternative. We don't need the my way or the highway people.

[squirecam]

9. She should have picked Sherrod Brown

Best of both worlds.

[highplainsdem]

10. That would have been great.

[ancianita]

11. Warren and Klobuchar. More women.

[brooklynite]

12. Based on WAPO in New Hampshire it was Pete...

[msongs]

15. trump starts with his base - adding more voters depends on who dems nominate

if the baggage of the dem outweighs the benefits of the dem, more voters will migrate to trump.
if dems nominate a woman the woman haters will head for trump. if dems nominate a gay man the gay haters will migrate to trump. if dems nominate a socialist from Our Revolution, the socialist haters will migrate to trump. etc etc etc

[MoonlitKnight]

19. Abrams as VP

And like it or not, Bernie is bringing in new voters and will do so in the general.

We need more women and African Americans to turn out.

A Warren- Abrams ticket would crush Trump and deliver House and Senate majorities. She would get Sanders’ voters and support, Abrams will increase black turnout and the message will be anti corruption.

Just like 1992’s “it’s the economy, stupid” it will be “it’s the corruption, stupid”.