Sunday, February 23, 2020

Why The DNC And The PodSave Boys Are (Really) Freaking Out Now...

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Sure, Bernie Sanders won Nevada.

But the real kicker is how he won:

...The demographics of Sanders’ victory, however, suggested that he may have earned a foothold in diverse states which mirror the Democratic base more closely than Iowa and New Hampshire.

In Nevada, according to CNN entrance polls, Sanders took 51% of the Latino vote, way ahead of any rival, and did well with African Americans...


Why does that matter?

Because there is only one reason Hillary Clinton won the Democratic nomination in 2016:




So.

The status-quoists can no longer comfort themselves with thoughts and rationalizations of how Iowa and New Hampshire didn't matter because their populations don't look like the rest of America.

And now, it looks like things are changing in South Carolina too:



Gosh.

Is it possible that we just might get an answer to the question that just a few months ago seemed unanswerable.

Which is..

...Would Mr. Sanders have beaten Mr. Trump in 2016?


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And so the pushback of the status-quoists begins.


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1 comment:

RossK said...

OK...So things didn't quite turn out this way when J. Clyburn and the entire Democratic Party jumped on the Joe Momentum bandwagon...And don't forget how Ms. Warren's disemboweling of the billionare on live TV cleared the middle track for Mr. Biden...


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