Progressives (Liberals)

In this suspenseful melodrama, a bullet-ridden corpse turns up in the water off the New Orleans docks. To the police, he’s a John Doe...until a public health doctor discovers he carries a virulent strain of bubonic plague. Hundreds of officers are mobilized to track down the killers and all who had contact with the dead man in a desperate race against the clock before the highly contagious disease spreads far beyond the port area and puts the entire country in peril.

The idea that bernites are uniquely responsible for the bad blood between them and centrist is pretty absurd.

Any film with Jack Palance is worth viewing!

The idea that bernites are uniquely responsible for the bad blood between them and centrist is pretty absurd.

The Nazi comparison was, of course, idiotic.

Of course, the witch-hunt meme is a witless contention, because a Republican-controlled Congress initiated the investigation.

The irony is that the classic first operational move when fascists take over is the elimination of political opposition. After the passage of the Reichstag Fire Act and the Enabling Act, in 1933, the Nazis outlawed all other parties. Oralloy would like to see that here.

I have noticed a lot of people seem to be condescending towards the black vote, talking about undue influence all the time.

I guess it boils down to whether Democrats favor democratic socialism and are willing to risk a second Trump administration in its pursuit or prefer a more inclusive and gradualist message.

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Virginia saw record-breaking turnout on Super Tuesday: 1.3 million voters went to the polls, surpassing the votes cast in 2016 by nearly 70% and breaking a previous Democratic record of 986,000 set in 2008, when Barack Obama was on the ballot

Exit polls show Warren and Sanders voters are very similar, with one big exception

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) ended her campaign Thursday after failing to get first or second place in any Super Tuesday states. The critical question going forward is where her supporters will swing.

Warren won 13 percent of all Super Tuesday votes tallied so far. That’s two times former vice president Joe Biden’s margin of victory in popular support over Sen. Bernie Sanders (6.4 percentage points).

Exit poll data indicates Sanders (I-Vt.) is the most natural beneficiary of Warren’s decision to end her campaign. Among her top five groups across Super Tuesday states, Warren’s median support peaked at 19 percent of “very liberal voters,” 17 percent among those ages 30-44 and 16 percent among voters with a favorable view of socialism.

Each of these groups was also among Sanders’s strongest five groups, too — he won a median of 49 percent of very liberal voters, 41 percent of 30- to 44-year-olds and 41 percent of those who are positive toward socialism.

Warren supporters are also significantly more favorable toward socialism than Democrats overall, a key indicator of openness to supporting Sanders, who identifies as a democratic socialist. Across five Super Tuesday states that asked this question and had enough interviews with Warren supporters for reliable data, a median of 73 percent of Warren voters said they were favorable toward socialism, 20 points higher than the 53 percent of Democratic voters overall who said the same.

That finding was fairly consistent across states — in Texas, for instance, 72 percent of Warren voters had a favorable view of socialism compared with 56 percent of Democratic primary voters overall.

Looking at how Warren backers rate Sanders and Biden directly, Warren’s supporters were far more positive toward Sanders than Biden in California, the only state with enough data to analyze this question. A 73 percent majority of Warren voters in California had a favorable view of Sanders, compared with 52 percent who were favorable toward Biden.

One significant schism between Warren and Sanders supporters is education. College graduates were one of Warren’s top five groups, and she won a median of 17 percent support with them, compared with 7 percent among voters without college degrees. By contrast, Sanders performed eight percentage points better with non-college graduates (33 percent) than he did with college grads (25 percent). Biden had similar support among these two groups across Super Tuesday states, winning a median of 34 percent among college graduates compared with 38 percent among those without college degrees.

It’s unclear how much college graduates’ greater support for Warren represented enthusiasm for her candidacy or aversion to Sanders or Biden, and that question will be critical to which candidate this group decides to vote for in coming contests. Next week’s five primaries in Idaho, Michigan, Missouri, Mississippi and Washington will be key test of whether Sanders can consolidate support among Warren backers who are clearly closer to him on ideological grounds.