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Democratic Primaries

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Bonobo

(29,257 posts)
Thu Feb 13, 2020, 08:37 PM Feb 2020

Forget 2016! 1972 is the best way to predict the 2020 GE!? [View all]

In 2016 Sanders polled better than Hillary consistently against Trump, but you didn’t accept that.

In 2016 and today, he attracts massive numbers of excited supporters from a broad group in terms of age and yes, race and gender. But you insisted on spreading the Bernie Bro myth because you don’t understand how Twitter works.

In 2020, we’re going to look to 1972 as an indicator of the current state of the American electorate?! Not at the results of nominating a centrist candidate with historically low favorability ratings?

Come on people! Even the youngest voters in 1962 are now 70 years old!!! It’s simply not a reflection of the world today.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
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