2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Message auto-removed [View all]Babel_17
(5,400 posts)I canvassed with one of them who was willing to work for Sanders in the primary, and vote for him in the general. That kind of Independent voter, new voter, Green party voter, and other voters, who showed up for Sanders unique message won't be led around to Clinton if Sanders feels obligated to play the part of the pied piper.
What their numbers are is the question. The youngest of these new voters are especially difficult for me to venture a guess on. Their conventional wisdom doesn't derive from sources I'm used to, but I don't see how the Clinton campaign can get a handle on influencing the communications they see and hear. Sanders and Warren aren't that far apart in age but Sanders has been especially amazing at getting the young voters to come around to voting, and getting involved.
Warren resonates extremely well with older progressives but without Sanders as the candidate I think we've lost the youngest ones. To get an idea of their numbers I guess we need to refer to the open primaries.