That any such purported crossover is “sizable” has always been questionable
if not downright laughable. Sanders acts a lot like Trump and appeals to people in many of the same ways (rather than formulate actual plans for anything, yell at scapegoats and tell vulnerable people someone else is to blame for their misfortune; make shit up incessantly and create your own alternate universe where your “base” can live; appeal to a swath of shitbag internet trolls who will do your bidding for you; etc) but at the end of the day he appeals to an entirely different demographic.
Fact is, Joe Biden is far better positioned to pull the old labor dems from states like PA, MI, WI, etc. back onto the fold and the actual numbers bear that out and then some. Face it, Schm. Bernie’s “revolution” was a fiction he and his propaganda team made up, and so is his alleged crossover appeal to Trump voters.....most of whom are middle class white people that want all of zero to do with his brand of continental socialism.
Hence Biden pulling in 200K new Dem primary voters in Michigan from 2016....
Bernie has a small but militant, cult-like base, but my guess is most of the 15% of them answering the question that way wont even vote.
I’d add that the selfish, egomaniacal old fart needs to just step out and help Joe win. He was resoundingly rejected by the voters. He cant blame DWS this time. Needs to be part of the solution, not the problem this time around.
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Posted: 03/31/2020 at 08:12AM