@snood,
Snood’s post is Third Way Centrist bullshit.
This narrative began with a Forbes article about a recent Emerson poll with an incredibly small sample size saying that 26% of Bernie voters would vote for Trump over Elizabeth Warren (that same poll pegged Bernie as the leader for the Democratic nomination). Given that the MSNBC propaganda complex is devoted to the “all Bernie supporters are sexist” narrative, this took off like a rocketship. While there is no reason to doubt the basic findings, any analysis that does not note the incredibly small sample size underlying that percentage is devoted more to the narrative than the facts underlying the situation. Plus, there is a gigantic group of voters left out of this narrative.
If you dig into past Emerson polls* on all the candidates, the narrative around Bernie supporters being uniquely intransigent completely and utterly collapses.
*Here are Emerson’s March archives and April archives providing the data laid out below by this Twitter account.
In Massachusetts, same polling company, poll from 2 weeks ago.
50% of Klobuchar
21% of Beto
19% of Biden
15% of Buttigieg
12.5% of Booker
6% of Bernie <—*
2% of Warren
... supporters would vote for Trump over Warren.
Whoops, there goes the narrative.— wideofthepost (@wideofthepost) April 21, 2019
In Wisconsin, last month, same polling company.
15% of Klobuchar
9% of Warren
6% of Bernie <—*
5% of Beto
4% of Biden
... supporters would vote for Trump over Warren.
