What Hillary supporters don't understand

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223. Pew has a nice article about the ideological

breakdown this era. It identifies a couple conservative groups and some others who largely vote Democratic.

And I've been musing about what kind of conservatives are drawn to Bernie since he first entered the race. Strong ideologues and those with extremist traits are not going to be drawn to a moderate. Period. If you visualize a simplified ideological spectrum as more like a U or O, which I do, then the shortest distance for conservatives on the hard right, such as disaffected tea-partiers, to the nearest candidate sufficiently out of the liberal mainstream for them would be across the top to Bernie.

Hillary's fairly obvious -- she's moderate liberal so, for moderate conservatives who support liberal economic programs, a shift around the bottom to her would seem to be the most comfortable destination for them.

In this scenario Martin's located in the middle and thus suffered from not being the closest candidate for ideological buses arriving from either direction.