2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: New Loras Poll: Sanders does better with better educated, more liberal Democrats. [View all]Armstead
(47,803 posts)Sanders is a relatively unknown person, except for people who follow politics closely, or live in Vermont. So, yes, it is likely the people who are familiar enough to support him are likely to be people who do pay more attention. And most of the Sanders supporters I know have middle class or lower incomes, and are hardly the fat cats.
And yes, someone who vacations in the Hamptons and gets paid Hundreds of thousands of dollars for speeches and attends Dinald trump;s wedding as a lark does qualify s an "elite." And the policies espoused by the pro-corporate DLC, Third Way or whatever they are calling themselves this week are oriented to the elites.
You, of course, are certainly entitled to you disagreements with that analysis of their policies and allegiances. However it is a bit Nixonian and Rovian to portray the followers of her primary opponent as a horde of "elite intellectual liberals."