The Great Divide in the Democratic Primary

[Sir X]

Younger people, more often than older, can also see that the label “democratic socialist” doesn’t have quite the shock value that it may have had 20 or 30 years ago. This is corroborated by national polls, where Bernie does very well not only among Democrats but generally also better than Hillary in face-offs against the Republican candidates. For many respondents in these polls, the label “democratic socialist” is one of the very few things that they know about Bernie, thanks to the major media’s including it in most of their reports, and giving Bernie a fraction of the coverage that they have given to Donald Trump. Yet independent voters — whom the Democratic candidate needs in order to win the general election — favor Bernie over Hillary by a wide margin.

There is evidence from exit polls that many of Clinton’s voters are more driven by fear than those who voted for Sanders. This includes a fear of terrorism, or the fear that the Democratic candidate might lose in the general election. Younger voters, for the reasons noted above and more, are not so easily scared. They are more likely to vote their hopes, rather than their fears. If they continue to organize and turn out in higher-than-usual numbers, as they did for the Obama campaign in 2008, they will make history once again.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-w...b_9660146.html

[Reggaedoc]

Younger people, more often than older, can also see that the label “democratic socialist” doesn’t have quite the shock value that it may have had 20 or 30 years ago. This is corroborated by national polls, where Bernie does very well not only among Democrats but generally also better than Hillary in face-offs against the Republican candidates. For many respondents in these polls, the label “democratic socialist” is one of the very few things that they know about Bernie, thanks to the major media’s including it in most of their reports, and giving Bernie a fraction of the coverage that they have given to Donald Trump. Yet independent voters — whom the Democratic candidate needs in order to win the general election — favor Bernie over Hillary by a wide margin.

There is evidence from exit polls that many of Clinton’s voters are more driven by fear than those who voted for Sanders. This includes a fear of terrorism, or the fear that the Democratic candidate might lose in the general election. Younger voters, for the reasons noted above and more, are not so easily scared. They are more likely to vote their hopes, rather than their fears. If they continue to organize and turn out in higher-than-usual numbers, as they did for the Obama campaign in 2008, they will make history once again.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-w...b_9660146.html

The blacks who are supporting Clinton are the same old tired, marginally educated but very loyal, followers of Jesse Jackson, Charlie Range etc jokers. When Trump said he loves the uneducated, that sentiment could be equally expressed by Hilary Clinton, but she is more of a politician and wouldn't express it in that manner.