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Democratic Primaries

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Moderateguy

(945 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2020, 01:16 PM Mar 2020

Winning a majority of the votes cast... [View all]

Sanders barely won a majority in VT.
There are two candidates in the moderate lane
He would have won by a majority in CO if Warren was not there.


Biden won a majority in SC, VA and AL.
In SC the moderate lane had 4 candidates, in VA and AL the moderate lane had 2.
Biden would have won by a majority in TN, AK, OK and NC if it had not been for Bloomberg.

It seems to me that over 50% of democratic primary voters in 7 states were in the moderate lane and over 50% of the primary voters in two states were in the progressive lane. So a reasonable argument can be made that a majority of democratic voters are not progressives.

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