Washington Post-What we learned from Bernie Sanders's town hall

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100. No, he isn't more of a Democrat than Joe Manchin, and here's why.

Joe Manchin was proud to wear the Democratic label -- and to win with it -- despite running for the Senate in the state with the HIGHEST vote for Trump in the whole country in 2016. What Joe Manchin managed to pull off was quite a feat.

Bernie comes from a strongly Democratic state, so it isn't hard for a Democrat -- or even a "Democratic socialist" -- to get elected there. West Virginia is a strongly Republican state, and yet the voters picked Manchin, who is far less conservative than any of the Republicans. (On Progressive Punch he has a 65% lifetime score on progressive positions, as opposed to the most progressive of the Republicans, Susan Collins, who is rated at 36% -- even though she comes from Swing state.)

http://www.progressivepunch.org/scores.htm?house=senate