2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: New Loras Poll: Sanders does better with better educated, more liberal Democrats. [View all]NanceGreggs
(27,835 posts)... this doesn't bode well for Bernie.
According to DU, the average voter is living in a van down by the river (thanks to Obama's failed presidential policies), and are definitely in the "below $50,000 family income" bracket.
It looks like Bernie - the Champion of the Common People - doesn't fare very well among the common folk.
I've been told repeatedly on this site that the middle class is struggling financially and, as a result, will be looking to Bernie to fight for them. Apparently, if this poll is to be taken seriously, that struggling middle class is seeing HRC as their best hope.
Jumping up and down over the fact that BS isn't appealing to the "moderate and conservative sections of the party" kind of underscores the fact that conservative GOPers won't be flocking to Bernie's side as a result of seeing common ground in his rhetoric either - yet another DU "truism" that obviously has no basis in reality.
"Clinton does well with those whose 'highest educational attainment is high school'."
Again, I fail to see how that idea is something worth celebrating by people who maintain that while HRC represents the "elitists", Bernie is the true representative of the everyday middle-class voter.
Cheering BS's securing of a paltry 13% of the "high school education only" demographic among likely caucus-goers doesn't speak well for his "message" that HE is the Great Deliverer of the everyday working man, does it? Perhaps he only meant "the everyday working man with a college or graduate degree, and an income of over $50,000 per year".
In all, it appears Sanders draws his support most from among those with the highest levels of formal education, of liberalism, and those with middle and upper income levels."
So much for the champion of the downtrodden middle class, eh?