Bernie backers' attacks on Democrats infuriate the party

[George II]

122. Yes they do. This has been debated a dozen times here, people (not necessarily you)....

....love to drill into people's heads that he's "most popular", not mentioning that it's only among his own constituents.

Here is the methodology of the Morning Consult poll:

In each poll, Americans indicated whether they approve or disapprove of the job performance of President Donald Trump, their state’s governor, both of THEIR U.S. senators, their member of Congress and their mayor (if they live in a city with more than about 10,000 residents). For each question, they could answer strongly approve, somewhat approve, somewhat disapprove, strongly disapprove, or don’t know / no opinion.

So, if the poll respondents presumably represent all the registered voters in each of their states, here are some numbers to consider:

Sanders' rating is 75%, extrapolating that across all 475,000 voters in Vermont that means he's "popular" with about 360,000 registered voters.

On the other hand, Senator Ron Wyden's rating, 10th on the list, is "only" 61%, but in a state with more than 2-1/2 million voters, he's "popular" with more than 1,550,000 registered voters.

So, overall, who is "popular" with more registered voters of those two Senators? The entire premise of that poll is grossly flawed, as is the case for similar polls that have been posted on DU.

Further, if you look at the "highest rated" Senators, you'll see that most of them are from states with the lowest numbers of registered voters. What would be interesting to see is the ratings of Senators among ALL registered voters of all states combined. I'm sure we'd see drastically different results.