20% Sanders supporters say they'll vote for bigoted, sexist Islamophobe ....this is quite the libe

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20% Sanders supporters say they'll vote for bigoted, sexist Islamophobe ....this is quite the liberal revolution


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[Renew Deal]

1. I asked the question earlier this week. Sanders supporters love to taunt Democrats with

other Sanders supporters (but somehow never themselves) voting for Trump. What does it say for the judgement of the Trump loving Sanders supporter?

[lostnfound]

8. That they are dying economically due to the race to the bottom of free trade agreements?

If that's their only issue.

[seabeyond]

34. So elect a man that has gone bankrupt four times. Brilliant.

[lostnfound]

40. I don't think it's brilliant. It just completely sucks. The choice between bad and worse. Nt

[seabeyond]

41. "The choice between bad and worse." That is such a blatantly false statement. When I hear this,

it tells me to walk....

[uponit7771]

67. So choose worse is wise?!!? Come on guys, this is more temper tantrum

[WhiteTara]

59. You have no idea how low the bottom can be when

another republicon takes over the WH with majorities in the Senate, House and SCOTUS. Bread lines won't even be around. But principles will be upheld as we all sink in the muck of climate change and poverty and starvation. Guns will abound though.

[lostnfound]

74. principles would not abound, and Donald's racist, xenophobic, misogynistic beliefs

Would take hold like kudzu. It's hard to know what such a basket case would be as head of state, but it's easy to imagine that it would lead to an attempt to try to return to white-man-rule for the economy.

Brownshirts
Abolition of diversity rules
Divisive culture

Speaking of divisive culture, I think my family might be headed toward open warfare at this election. The consequence of two wildly unpopular candidates. In 50s and 60s, siblings are so very angry that the other is supporting someone so reprehensible in their eyes. One sibling is a professional college-educated female, the other is a hardworking former technician-and-small-entrepreneur male that lost most of his life savings in a rigged stock market. Which one is supporting which?

[WhiteTara]

75. Sorry you family is so divided.

I'm sure your brother is in great pain. Is he supporting Trump? I don't find Bernie reprehensible, does she?

[lostnfound]

77. Yeah it's a bummer

He's a lifelong Republican, but I think could have persuaded him to vote for Sanders.
No amount of effort would talk him into voting for Cinton.

She is "anybody but Trump".

[Sheepshank]

69. These are likely the loudest and most boorish of all

..and this self same group thinks they Are entitled enough to over ride majority vote, majority of PD, majority of SD and get Bernie nominates via threats, or are voting for Drumpf. I really wonder if they realize how completely stupid and ignorant they sound. So stupid that they really think this is a valid threat. I think the label of progressivism, and indeed Democracy is beyond their ability to reason.

[Renew Deal]

71. Look at this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2026850

Overtly advocating the election be stolen. It's hypocrisy.

[Sheepshank]

73. Wow...so many caps. It must be cereal lol nt

[Surya Gayatri]

3. And, he damn well knows this, so he plays right to them.

Whipping up hatred and dissension. Making the Dem Party the object of his ridicule.

[JaneyVee]

4. Insane.

[BootinUp]

5. Sounds like people who know nothing about politics

Just voting against the two party system to be a spoiler or something.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

64. A bunch of kids is my guess. And the undereducated.

[thomservo]

6. Kind of reminds me of 2008...

https://www.wired.com/2008/06/angry-clinton-s/

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/06/exit-polls-half-of-clintons-supporters-wont-back-obama/

http://www.gallup.com/poll/105691/mccain-vs-obama-28-clinton-backers-mccain.aspx

[Andy823]

7. And the majority of that group

Never voted for a Democrat in their life. They are trolls for Trump, or Karl Rove. Their job has been to try and divide the Democratic party by bashing and trashing. They play both sides pretending to be supporters of one of the two candidates, but all they are really doing is trying to get as many Democratic voters pissed off at the "other" candidate in hopes many will not vote if their candidate loses the nomination.

Sad things is some Democrats are falling for their BS, but near as many as the media is trying to claim.

[hobbit709]

11. Hate to tell you this but I've been voting D since 1972

And all the Bernie supporters I know have too, so take your unfounded bull and put it somewhere.

[Andy823]

31. Hate to tell you

I really don't care. I never said "all" of his supporters were trolls, did I? I am glad you are not a troll, but whether you want to believe it or not, a huge number of those causing the problems, and claiming to be his supporters, are trolls. I am sure you and many others will refuse to belie that, but it's true. You might also have missed where I said they are working "both" sides, not just one.

[hobbit709]

32. Goody goody gumdrops-you don't care!

[seabeyond]

35. Yup. Nt

[hobbit709]

9. According to your source there's 8% of clinton voters doing the same.

[baldguy]

14. So, you admit Sanders fans are almost 3x more likely to be bigoted, sexist & Islamophobic.

That's some progress, at least.

[hobbit709]

15. Nope. Since none of the Bernie supporters i know would even consider the idea.

That idea seems to come out of the minions of Camp Weathervane.

[baldguy]

17. 20% vs. 8%, as you yourself said.

Are you now saying that you're wrong? Or do you just want to have it both ways?

[hobbit709]

20. Funny how your opinion of polls changes with the results.

[baldguy]

25. Funny how you cherry-pick polls & ignore the results of the primaries.

Actual people casting actual votes, actually choosing Clinton over Sanders is meaningless if there's some random poll that shows otherwise.

[hobbit709]

26. I quit. I'm not giving singing lessons.

[baldguy]

27. The Democratic chior sings just fine, thank you.

Can't help it if Sanders' folks refuse to be part of the congregation.

[riversedge]

79. 20% vs only 8% of Hillary supporters. la la

[Dem2]

47. Except this one last night

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=2020430

[hobbit709]

49. Nowhere did the poster say they were voting for Trump.

they gave their opinion of what would happen, but never said they were actually voting for Trump.
Reading comprehension fail.

[Dem2]

51. LMAO

Well, we'll see.

[hobbit709]

55. Yep.

[uponit7771]

66. MOE, Sanders camp is NOT in the moe... that's a shame

[Armstead]

10. And 80 percent who wouldn't is insignificant?

[hellofromreddit]

12. Clearly, Sanders is the only democratic candidate that can pull voters away from Trump.

[mythology]

13. Much like the vaunted PUMAs in 2008

I suspect much of that is just frustration with losing the primary.

[thomservo]

16. Bingo!

http://www.gallup.com/poll/105691/mccain-vs-obama-28-clinton-backers-mccain.aspx

[seabeyond]

37. PUMA of 2016. Yup. Upwards of 80% are comfortable voting Clinton.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. .

[Warren Stupidity]

22. Please post this again.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

19. Do you think we have any here?

[Warren Stupidity]

23. thank you

[Warren Stupidity]

21. Well you all should work harder to get those numbers up!

Only 20%? You aren't doing your job right. Now get to it! Crank out those divisive insulting op's!

[derpderpderp]

24. What's the percentage of us that won't vote for Hillary or Trump?

[Bluenorthwest]

28. Gallup March 2008- If McCain vs. Obama, 28% of Clinton Backers Go for McCain

PRINCETON, NJ -- A sizable proportion of Democrats would vote for John McCain next November if he is matched against the candidate they do not support for the Democratic nomination. This is particularly true for Hillary Clinton supporters, more than a quarter of whom currently say they would vote for McCain if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/105691/mccain-vs-obama-28-clinton-backers-mccain.aspx

This year 8% of Clinton supporters say they won't vote for the Democrat if it is Bernie.

Do you think 28% of Hillary people voted for McCain in the end? I don't.

And by the way, every Republican ever to run has been a bigot. It's just that some of you don't mind some forms of bigotry as much as other forms of bigotry

To the OP: Were you Hillary 08 supporter? Were you among the 28%?

[apcalc]

29. According to pollsters, her voters

Would vote for Sanders, even though they do not prefer him, to keep Trump out of the White House.

There are those Sanders voters , as of now, who are not willing to say they will support her.

This is why Sanders polls better than Clinton against Trump at this point....at least pollsters are indicating that.

So, we may just end up with Trump...but things could change. The thought of Trump in the White House, with a Republican congress and Senate ought to fill everyone with terror.

[Bluenorthwest]

42. More Hillary supporters say they are willing to vote for Sanders than said they'd vote for Obama

in 2008. Why do you think they were so much more anti Obama? What's the big difference. Obama and Clinton are more similar politically than Sanders and Clinton.....

[apcalc]

62. Dunno

The great majority of her voters did end up voting for Obama.

[Uponthegears]

30. May I compliment

You on spinning a most damning fact regarding the one issue Hillarista Army? Faced with the fact that far fewer Sanders supporters are prepared to jump ship in 2016 than Hillary supporters were prepared to jump ship in 2008, you cleverly turned this into a comparison between Trump and McCain.

How perfectly Rovian of you.

[mcar]

33. K&R

[gordianot]

36. Very encouraging only 20% take the greater more obvious path than the lesser path.

The bigger liar as opposed to the better liar wins only 20%, taste counts for something.

[Iliyah]

38. New NBC poll has HRC up three over T-rump

CBS was higher, but alas, we know which ones get the most notice.

[Kall]

39. Alternate title:

"Sanders can attract voters upset with political establishment and/or trade deals that sell out Americans"

[imagine2015]

43. If Hillary captures the nomination. Otherwise they would vote for Sanders. What's your point?

That the presidency should be handed to Trump by making Hillary the Democratic candidate?

[imagine2015]

44. What's a libe?

[Vinca]

45. Or the Libertarian ticket.

Two former governors, both respected and one (Weld) loved by Democrats when he was Massachusetts governor.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

46. 100% of Clinton supporters would vote for a corporatist warmonger

[Dem2]

48. You forgot: Oligarch Third Way DLC Corporatist Triangulation corporate shill bankster warmonger

Please, only a complete list will do!

[Warren Stupidity]

60. corporatist warmonger really covers the entire problem.

Oligarch Third Way DLC shill bankster do not add any new information.

[Demsrule86]

50. That type of voter

cares nothing for liberalism or the American people...they are merely groupies...same sort who follow rock bands. No progressive in an election year where the president could appoint up to five justices to the Supreme Court during his/her tenure would vote for Trump who is the worst of the worst or any Republican. Thus, I put the worst of them on ignore...something I have never done before and I am just waiting it out. We are ready here in Ohio...to roll out the GE apparatus for our nominee Hillary Clinton.

[Larkspur]

52. And PUMAs in 2008 said that they would never vote for Obama

yet most did.

So HRC supporters you are getting a taste of your own medicine.

[HooptieWagon]

54. Too bad you corporatists declared war on the Left.

Reap what you sow...

[Iliyah]

56. Same thing happened in 2008.

November 2016 - Dems for the win and strong indication of taking back the senate.

Cheers!

[panader0]

58. 72% of Sanders voters have said they will support HRC if she is the nominee.

This in contrast to 60% of HRC who said they would support Obama in 2008.
Such rank hypocrisy.

[democrattotheend]

61. The people saying that are NOT the liberal activists

They are swing voters who find both Sanders and Trump to be more authentic and trustworthy than Hillary. Many of them also oppose free trade and the war in Iraq, and find Trump's positions on those issues to be better than Hillary's. I have several Republican/Libertarian leaning friends who say they would vote for Sanders over Trump, but Trump over Hillary. Obviously, I don't agree with them, but the Sanders voters who prefer Trump over Hillary are people like them, NOT the liberal activists who support Bernie. Some of the diehard liberal Bernie supporters may vote Green or write him in, but they are not the ones voting for Trump.

[nadinbrzezinski]

68. Those are the dynamics at play

Precisely

[Number23]

63. And as has already been pointed out, THIS is the reason that Sanders is beating Trump this far out

Clinton supporters vote for Sanders in a Sanders vs Trump game.

Sadly, a good sized group of Sanders supporters will not vote for the Democrat and are actually planning on not voting or -- astonishingly -- actively planning on voting Trump.

[Warren DeMontague]

72. Hillary Clinton, like it or not, has very high negatives with the public. That is a fact.

Now, if she's got some brilliant plan to win over people between now and november, that's fucking spectacular. But even she admits she doesnt have the political chops of her husband or, say, a Barack Obama.

And her supporters are making it clear that the only "outreach" they're interested in doing to the vile, shambling masses of Sanders supporters they have spent the past 10 months throwing crap at, is another hearty batch of "screw youuuuu".

Millennials will be finger-wagged and told to get off the lawn some more. Etc.

The Brock crowd thinks they'll make up the difference with "megachurch moms", which is absurd on its fucking face.


So there is an actual problem, whether Hill Folk want to admit it or not.

[nadinbrzezinski]

65. And I expect a good number of conservadems to do as well

It happens every election...news at 11:00

[still_one]

76. It is my suspecision why the national polls are skewed. A good number of folks identifying

themselves as sanders supporter when asked who they would vote for between Hillary and trump, say trump.

Whether these folks are actually Sanders supporters, or as the news has been reporting, republicans identifying themselves as Hillary or Bernie supporters in or to divide, I doubt we will know for sure, but this poll implies something isn't passing the smell test

[anotherproletariat]

78. And I bet the number is around 80-90% of those on DU...these people are the worst.

You are right, they are certainly not liberals.