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Still nonsense. Check the history of the terms and the grammar.

Check the history of the terms and the grammar.

FYI in 2020 he is running in the democratic primaries as a democrat.

there’s really only one viable alternative this Tuesday: Joe Biden.

Asking respondents about their general election preferences this far in advance isn’t totally meaningless, though. Using our panel data, we found that the candidate respondents told us they’d back during the primaries has often matched whom they backed later in the general election. Consider 2008: Thirteen percent who answered our survey during the later half of the primaries said they would back Hillary Clinton but not Barack Obama in the general. Many meant it: When we asked again about who they supported in the fall of 2008, 33.5 percent of those respondents said they backed Sen. John McCain and another 28.2 percent backed neither major-party candidate.

Likewise, in January 2016, those who said they would back Sen. Marco Rubio but not Trump in the general (11 percent) remained wary of Trump. In October 2016, 25.5 percent told us they now backed Clinton while another 48.2 percent said they remained uncommitted, wouldn’t vote, or backed a third-party candidate.

So simply put, there’s reason to believe that when 8 percent of panelists tell us they’ll only back Biden and not Sanders — or 3 percent, in the case of voters who said they’d only back Sanders and not Biden — many of them mean it, and their minds won’t necessarily change months later.

... but his political tactics and alliances have changed.

Why do you think that was? I mean every vote is important and in a closely divided Senate, Sanders would be able to trade his votes to either party for things he felt were valuable, even if he were not particularly popular.