Sanders eviscerates the conventional wisdom about why he can't win

[peoli]

LAS VEGAS — On Saturday in Nevada, Bernie Sanders laid waste not just to his five main rivals but also to every shard of conventional wisdom about the Democratic presidential primaries.

You could see the dominoes of punditry cliches falling inside the caucus rooms. At the Bellagio Hotel, which held one of several “Strip caucuses” meant to be easily accessible to hospitality workers along Vegas’ main drag, 75 Sanders supporters gathered along the wall of a ballroom.

The powerful Culinary Union, which opposes Sanders’ Medicare for All plan and spent the final weeks of the campaign in a high-profile fight with his campaign, was supposed to weaken him. And yet the Sanders’s ranks were speckled with red-shirted Culinary members. (Overall, Sanders won 34% of caucus-goers from union households, besting all of his rivals.)

Sanders wasn’t supposed to be able to break through with black and brown voters, but the group was racially and ethnically diverse. (Sanders won 27% of African Americans and 53% of Hispanics across the state.) The Sanders movement is supposed to be limited to those crazy college kids who don’t remember socialist as a slur. But there were plenty of older Sanders backers at the Bellagio chanting “Bernie” along with their 20-something comrades. (Sanders won every age category in the state except Nevadans over 65, which he ceded to Joe Biden.)

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/22/bernie-sanders-nevada-2020-election-116762

[redqueen]

1. I wonder if Sanders will do as well with the Latino vote in Texas.

If I were to guess based on personal anecdotal evidence that would be a BIG yes. We shall see.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

2. Bernie does well with ALL demographics...cuz his progressive vision worx for the benefIt of EVERYONE

in the working class!!


Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!! l

[Eko]

4. Does it really worx!?!

OMG!!

[booley]

6. Yes it really does Worx.

We kept pointing out Sanders is popular among PoC. He has one of if not the most diverse base.

A typo doesn't' change that.

[Eko]

11. Not sure how it could be a typo

as the x is so very far away from the k.

[rwsanders]

15. Love it.

Don't vote for Bernie, his supporters can't spell.

[Eko]

17. Of course I never said anything of the sort

That would be your assumption of what I meant and it is way off course.

[rwsanders]

18. What was the point of bringing up the typo? I must have missed that.

[Eko]

24. Just because you missed it

doesn't mean that it is something other than what I said.

[rwsanders]

28. OK boomer

[Eko]

29. Ok little kid.

[rwsanders]

32. Thanks I'll take that!

[CentralMass]

7. This.

[jcmaine72]

8. Yep. Bernie is a man of the people.

[pazzyanne]

33. Au contraire, mon ami.

He is not "a man of (all) people". Many of us agree with his policies, but believe others who have similar policies have a better process for getting from point A to point B.

[pnwmom]

35. He had almost exactly the same outcome as he did last time in NV. No one will win the primaries

without a majority of the vote, and he's never had it.

With all he's been doing to alienate the party, I don't know why anyone would think he'd win a brokered convention.

[cannabis_flower]

3. My Hispanic husband

Who unfortunately can't vote likes "La Señora" (Warren) best but also likes Bernie. There's a lot of favorable coverage of Bernie on Telemundo and Univision.

[booley]

9. According to polls Sanders leads the Latino vote at 30%

So I think there is a good chance.

Not we should take anything for granted of course.



https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/campaign-wire-election-2020/card/1582048112

[cstanleytech]

19. Question is will that translate into enough minority voters actually showing up to vote when

the election is held in November.
Unfortunately if the answer turns out to be no then all the early support in the world for the nomination itself doesn't matter.
If they show up though great because its about time the minority voters finally start flexing their power but if not we might get 4 more years from that shit stain that is currently holding the office of President.

[Scotch-Irish]

10. You should have seen El Paso going crazy for him today...and they were lined up outside

unable to fit more people in. Bernie's message resonates with the majority of Americans. Even a bunch of republicans.

[booley]

5. they keep underestimating him

I think in large part because they Bernie Sanders the establishment and media think they know doesn't' actually exist except in their own minds.

How can anyone think Sanders is divisive when he just won three very different states?

[rwsanders]

21. I think this article covers a lot of the whys

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/class-war-comes-to-the-democratic-party/

[LostinRed]

12. No it doesn't

His policy screw the middle class.

[jmowreader]

13. Oh lord...

Sanders can't win because Trump knows exactly which buttons to push to turn the electorate against him.

One attack that is going to be very effective: "Sanders will take your house away." He's running on the Green New Deal, and the GND calls for either massively upgrading or totally replacing every building in America within the next 10 years, in search of better energy efficiency.

[blue-wave]

14. Oh wow!!

They just don't get it, they just don't get it, they just don't get it.

Bernie will not win. It'll be another McGovern fiasco.

[rwsanders]

16. And the crystal balls show this because 2016 went so well?

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/nprs-egregious-takedown-of-bernie-sanders-fact-checked/

[blue-wave]

22. Well, maybe 2016 would have gone better if

so many Bernie supporters would not have voted for Trump. This effectively gave him the electoral votes he needed to win.

"Fully 12 percent of people who voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the 2016 Democratic presidential primaries voted for President Trump in the general election."

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/24/545812242/1-in-10-sanders-primary-voters-ended-up-supporting-trump-survey-finds

[uponit7771]

30. Sanders has no historical swing state appeal outside of MOE, Biden has the most

[white_wolf]

23. McGovern seriously?

Do you have any arguments that aren't from the last century?

[blue-wave]

26. As a matter of fact, I do. It's posted just above your snarky comment.

Have a wonderful day.

[peequod]

25. Too bad the aloof Joe Biden

Can’t seem to make that case himself when it counts. He has this funny habit of losing primaries/caucuses... badly. We shall see what SC brings.

[HarlanPepper]

31. Nah

They will beat him with the payroll tax increase for the working class and income tax increase for the middle class to pay for M4A (which would never get 60 votes in the senate anyway). They won’t need the environmental stuff, though I have to admit you make a good point about something I had not previously considered.

[uponit7771]

20. Sanders has no historical swing state appeal outside of MOE, Biden has the most

[HarlanPepper]

27. If that qualifies as "eviscerates" we're in big trouble.

That’s kids stuff. Wouldn’t so much as muss one of Dump’s orange locks.

[erlewyne]

34. Great read

and I am pinched for time. Your post is great but I got enhanced
by the replies. I wished we were all setting at the same table. I
mean "literal table, you know. made out of wood". As Democrats
we are sitting at the same table. It would be fun yelling at one
another (in jest).