Poll: 33% of Sanders Supporters Wouldn't Vote for Clinton in November

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28. Independents and swing voters who are anti-establishment

These numbers say nothing about Bernie's supporters being disloyal Democrats. They say a lot about the extent to which he has already won over people who do not normally vote Democratic.

Some of those people may not be in it for the long haul. But a lot of them -- especially the Millennials -- represent a rising generation that can either be sealed in as supporters of progressive Democratic policies or be lost permanently.

In 1932, my mother was working as a secretary for $8 a week and was all set to join the Communist Party until they told her she'd have to get up early on Sunday mornings to sell the Daily Worker on street corners. So she said no thanks -- and that fall FDR was elected and (give or take the occasional candidate who would choke a horse) she was a reliable Democratic voter for the next sixty years.

Today's young people are in much the same situation. We either win them over now or kiss them goodbye forever.