NYT: Support for Bernie Sanders Is Deep but Narrow
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How did DemocratSinceBirth put it? IIRC, "His support is a mile deep, and inch wide".
ETA: I forgot to post the link. Sorry! Here it is:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/upshot/support-for-bernie-sanders-is-deep-but-narrow.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
As many as 100,000 people attended house parties for Bernie Sanders on Wednesday in an extraordinary and perhaps unprecedented early demonstration of grass-roots support.
Although the tremendous turnout for Mr. Sanders was an impressive indication of the depth of his support among the Democratic Party’s liberal activists, it seems that his base of support is quite narrow.
An analysis of Mr. Sanders’s activist base shows that the turnout for Mr. Sanders was overwhelmingly concentrated in the country’s most liberal communities. There were actually more Sanders attendees in Portland, Ore., than in New Hampshire or Iowa. There was little or no activity in many nonwhite and conservative areas that possess the votes and delegates to decide the nomination.
Twelve congressional districts — all in Southern or nonwhite areas — had no Sanders events. There were no Sanders events in an overwhelmingly Democratic, minority-heavy district in New York City. There were no Sanders events in two heavily Hispanic congressional districts in California. There were no events in several congressional districts in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee and Florida.
The analysis of the event attendance used data scraped off the Sanders campaign website. With the help of Jeremy Bowers, our colleague in the New York Times Washington bureau, we grabbed the ZIP code, county and state of Sanders events, including the number of people who RSVP’d online to each event. More than 100,000 people were registered to attend.
The pattern of Mr. Sanders’s support resembles Mr. Obama’s support from 2008, but with nearly no support from the black voters who decided that election in Mr. Obama’s favor.
Mr. Sanders’s challenge among nonwhite and conservative voters has been widely reported. But the geographic concentration of Mr. Sanders’s activist base is striking even in the context of those expectations. While more than a thousand people showed up to Sanders events in Seattle, San Francisco and Portland, Ore., there were equally populated Southern and nonwhite areas where there were no Sanders events at all. His top 15 congressional districts, each with at least 750 registered attendees, were all in Oregon, Washington, California — or Vermont. Next came Boulder, Colo.
The South was Mr. Sanders’s weakest region: Mississippi, Georgia, Louisiana and South Carolina all sat at the bottom of the list. The turnout for Mr. Sanders — measured by comparing the number of RSVPs with the number of Obama voters — was 12 times as great in Oregon as in Mississippi. There were more attendees in Washington than in the far larger state of Texas
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12 districts, out of how many, had no events, thus there is no support for him. And comparing w/Obama voters makes zero sense 
Panic! 
Incoming fact will burst bubbles!
And didn't HC supporters just declare the NYT was a right wing hit piece factory?
