2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: WV Exit Polls: 44% of Sanders voters are Trump supporters [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)SOS numbers for decline to state voters is 18 percent, most recent numbers, from 2012
http://www.sos.wv.gov/elections/history/Pages/Voter_Registration_History.aspx
So it is math... 40 percent have signaled that they will cross for Trump, 40-18 gives me 22, and that is assuming every independent voter did a cast today for Sanders. So a more realistically number of conservadems is higher. It is like Florida in 2000 when tens of thousands of Conservative Democrats chose to vote for George Bush. Them are the breaks.
Keep hiding the head in the sand, and kicking on the voters that are obviously needed to win. Myself. this is a nasty signal of what is going to happen in the rust belt. Did I mention these are battleground states? I thought it would be relevant.
Myself, just taking notes.