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Donkees's JournalBernie Sanders leads Donald Trump in polls, even when you remind people he's a socialist
Socialism is unpopular, but America’s leading socialist isn’t.
By Matthew Yglesias
Jan 31, 2020, 9:30am EST
Excerpt:
The poll: Calling Sanders a socialist doesn’t change much
Data for Progress used the Lucid survey sampling platform to test three different versions of a Sanders and Trump polling matchup question. The survey was in the field from January 9 to January 19 of 2020 and ran these three polls:
No information: “If the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump?”
Partisan cues: “If the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump?”
Socialists and billionaires: “If the 2020 U.S. Presidential election was held today, who would you vote for if the candidates were Democrat Bernie Sanders, who wants to tax the billionaire class to help the working class and Republican Donald Trump, who says Sanders is a socialist who supports a government takeover of healthcare and open borders?”
In all three versions, Bernie beats Trump, albeit by slightly different margins. Sanders does best in the version of the question that provides no information at all. Giving the candidates their partisan labels increases Sanders’s lead somewhat, and giving the hypothetical messages leaves Sanders with a lead that’s somewhere in between the two other scenarios.
https://www.vox.com/2020/1/31/21113780/bernie-sanders-socialism-electability-primaries
NEW Iowa American Research Group Poll: Sanders 23%, Biden 17%, Klobuchar 16%
https://twitter.com/PpollingNumbers/status/1223283990091661312Bernie Sanders's Surge Owes a Lot to Voters of Color
By Giovanni Russonello
Jan. 31, 2020, 11:11 a.m. ET
Excerpt:
And with Mr. Sanders surging days before voting begins with the Iowa caucuses, an intriguing theme has emerged: Much of his momentum, polling shows, owes to the support of nonwhite voters — particularly African-American and Hispanic Democrats.
Most surveys of California voters over all now have him in a virtual tie or with an outright lead — and his support among Hispanic voters is foundational to that. A survey conducted for The Los Angeles Times by the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, found Mr. Sanders with 26 percent support among likely primary voters statewide, putting him ahead... He had the support of 38 percent of Hispanic voters, including 41 percent of those living in households where Spanish was the dominant language.
In Texas, exit polls in 2016 found that Mr. Sanders, Vermont’s junior senator, had lost the Latino vote to Hillary Clinton by a two-to-one margin. He now enjoys a commanding lead among Hispanic primary voters there, according to a Texas Lyceum survey released this week. (In Texas’ Democratic primary, white voters are expected to make up a minority of the electorate, as they did in 2016.) The Lyceum poll showed Mr. Sanders with 36 percent of the Hispanic vote...
Part of Mr. Sanders’s strength among Latinos can be chalked up to the fact that the Hispanic population in the United States skews younger than the rest of the country — and Mr. Sanders continues to draw by far his strongest support from voters under 50.
“Our population is so young that most of the people are in the 40-and-under category,” Matt Barreto, a founder of the polling firm Latino Decisions, said in an interview. “So in the aggregate he is doing really well” among Hispanic voters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/politics/latest-democratic-polls.html
Fighting for Disability Rights
https://twitter.com/BernieSanders/status/1223233420995760128From the beginning of American history, people with disabilities have been a part of our country. Often segregated and ignored, the disability community has fought for equality, inclusion and access to the American dream. These efforts have been crucial to building the best parts of our country – and are just as important to building the future we want.
It’s time for us to acknowledge that disability rights are civil rights, and that a society that does not center the voices and needs of people with disabilities has yet to fulfill its most basic obligations.
As we near the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, we need a president who will champion both protecting and expanding the rights of the tens of millions of Americans with disabilities. As president, Bernie will not only put forward aggressive disability policy proposals designed to promote access, autonomy, inclusion and self-determination for all, but will also incorporate disability issues into every other area of public policy, including housing, health care, education, transportation, technology and many others. Bernie will create a National Office of Disability Coordination, run by a person with a disability, focused on coordinating and making disability policy to advance the full inclusion of people with disabilities, including ensuring every aspect of our public resources are ADA compliant and that the civil rights of people with disabilities are protected and expanded.
Despite the progress that has been made over the past two decades, we unfortunately still live in a world where people with disabilities have fewer work opportunities, experience much higher rates of poverty, and where the civil rights of people with disabilities are not always protected and respected.
Bernie believes that, as a nation, we have a moral responsibility to ensure that all Americans have the support they need to live with dignity.
Disability rights will factor into virtually every area of policy-making in a Bernie Sanders administration.
https://berniesanders.com/issues/fighting-for-disability-rights/
New NBC/WSJ national Dem WH poll Sanders 27%
Sanders +6https://twitter.com/SteveKornacki/status/1223199248788922370
We asked Bernie about the first word that comes to his mind when he hears the name "Betsy DeVos.''
https://twitter.com/NEAToday/status/1222937770684928000https://educationvotes.nea.org/presidential-2020/the-nea-interviews/candidates/bernie-sanders/
NEA is inviting all presidential candidates to participate in a one-on-one interview with NEA’s Lily Eskelsen García to help our members better understand their positions on issues of vital importance to the success of our public schools. To qualify for interviews, candidates were asked to fill out a detailed questionnaire; once complete, candidates were invited to sit down with Lily. As additional interviews are confirmed, these candidates will appear in the grid above, so stay tuned!
New Video: Rep. Pramila Jayapal Endorses Bernie Sanders for President
Jan 30, 2020
“Nothing can be done just as one. It has to be done as the movement. And that’s the organizer in Bernie inside and outside. He won’t just be president and commander-in-chief, he’ll be organizer-in-chief.” -Rep. Pramila Jayapal
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Progressive groups unite to boost Bernie Sanders as Democratic attacks on him mount
The independent expenditure effort is dubbed "People Power for Bernie.
Jan. 30, 2020, 6:02 PM EST
By Alex Seitz-Wald
Excerpt:
DES MOINES, Iowa — Nine outside groups backing Bernie Sanders will begin coordinating efforts to boost the presidential candidate in what they say is the largest independent mobilizing drive in the Democratic field, aides with the coalition told NBC News.
The independent expenditure, dubbed "People Power for Bernie," will be barred from coordinating with Sanders' campaign, but members of the coalition will be able to team up on grassroots organizing and potentially advertising.
The reinforcements for Sanders comes just ahead of Monday’s first-in-the-nation caucuses in Iowa, where Sanders' surge into the lead in most polls has worried some moderates and prompted an almost $700,000 ad campaign from a pro-Israel Democratic group arguing Sanders can't beat President Donald Trump.
The groups include Democratic Socialists of America, the youth climate advocacy group Sunrise Movement, and Our Revolution, which spun off of Sanders' 2016 campaign, along with the progressive organizing groups Center for Popular Democracy Action, Make the Road, Action People's Action, Student Action and Progressive Democrats of America. Also part of the effort is the criminal justice group Dream Defenders.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/outside-groups-unite-back-bernie-sanders-democratic-attacks-him-mount-n1126926
https://twitter.com/PplsAction/status/1223021853616361472
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