WAPO: Sanders wants Democrats to think that Warren's gains are a function of moderates. They aren't.

[ehrnst]

In Monmouth’s April poll, Warren was running fifth, with 6 percent of poll respondents identifying her as their preferred candidate. In the new poll, she and Sanders are essentially tied.

Shortly before that poll came out, Sanders’s campaign lifted up a report from Politico that seemed as though it might help explain Warren’s improved position: She was gaining support from what Sanders called “the corporate wing” of the Democratic Party. Which is to say the party’s more moderate, less progressive arm, the segment of the party that, in Sanders’s framing, will pull out all the stops to curtail his economic revolution.



It doesn’t take much reading between the lines here to understand Sanders’s argument: Centrists are circling around Warren (per Politico) because they are afraid of legitimate progressive positions like his own.

Patrick Murray, who runs the Monmouth University Polling Institute, noted on Twitter that the Politico article relied on the opinions of a few people in determining that more-moderate Democrats were lining up behind Warren. One, for example, was the co-founder of a centrist think tank that, Politico’s Natasha Korecki and Charlie Mahtesian write, “is learning to live with Warren.”

Murray noted that Monmouth’s polling paints a different picture than Politico’s interviews would suggest.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/06/19/sanders-wants-democrats-think-that-warrens-gains-are-function-moderates-they-arent/?utm_term=.15c7825c7015

[Cha]

1. Thank you, ehrnst!

[comradebillyboy]

2. I'm a centerist by DU standardss but I am warming up to Warren.

[saidsimplesimon]

3. Warren is a Democrat.

I lean Democratic. I'm biased. Unlike former candidate Mrs. Clinton, Mr. Sanders lacks the qualifications for office. imo

[ecstatic]

4. That's often missed in these discussions.

Everyone is so focused on Bernie's vague ideas, but nobody takes the time to ask the first question: Is he qualified to be president? Male privilege, I guess?

[saidsimplesimon]

7. Bernie is a treasure.

The issue for me Is will Democrats vote as a block in 2020? We must...imo

[George II]

5. Her gains are from moderates but he falls in the polls proportionate to her gains. Whatzupwidat?

[Gothmog]

9. Warren is taking the liberal vote from sanders

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[emulatorloo]

6. Very interesting article. No surprise that left-liberals and progressives are supporting Warren

We always have supported what she’s done as a Senator and consumer advocate.

All of our candidates are good, I’m undecided still. . But Senator Warren is definitely on my short list.

[Gothmog]

8. From my twitter feed

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[Gothmog]

10. From Nate Silver-Warren is hurting sanders

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