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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumStop the WHINING! "57% of Democrats want Bernie Sanders to stay in the race, polling finds"
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/05/03/poll-most-democrats-bernie-sanders-stay-race/83886612/
Even as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders path to the Democratic nomination has grown virtually nonexistent, a majority of Democrats want him to stay in the race, according to NBC News/SurveyMonkey polling.
Fifty-seven percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters say he should stay through the Democratic National Convention in July.
As expected among Sanders supporters, 89% want him to keep going. But notably among Hillary Clinton supporters 28% also want him to stay.
The folks over at liberal-leaning MSNBC interpreted the results this way:
This majority support among Democrats for Sanders remaining in the race until the convention may point to signs that Democrats see Sanders as beneficial to Clintons candidacy primarily by sharpening her message and making her ready for a general election that will likely be very negative."
Sanders had appeared to pivot last week from trying to win the nomination to amassing enough delegates to influence the Democratic Party platform, but he was insisting Tuesday that he still was in it to win it.
Even as Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders path to the Democratic nomination has grown virtually nonexistent, a majority of Democrats want him to stay in the race, according to NBC News/SurveyMonkey polling.
Fifty-seven percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters say he should stay through the Democratic National Convention in July.
As expected among Sanders supporters, 89% want him to keep going. But notably among Hillary Clinton supporters 28% also want him to stay.
The folks over at liberal-leaning MSNBC interpreted the results this way:
This majority support among Democrats for Sanders remaining in the race until the convention may point to signs that Democrats see Sanders as beneficial to Clintons candidacy primarily by sharpening her message and making her ready for a general election that will likely be very negative."
Sanders had appeared to pivot last week from trying to win the nomination to amassing enough delegates to influence the Democratic Party platform, but he was insisting Tuesday that he still was in it to win it.
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Stop the WHINING! "57% of Democrats want Bernie Sanders to stay in the race, polling finds" (Original Post)
Logical
May 2016
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And by making it clear that we want Progressive politics from the Democratic nominee. One can choose
highprincipleswork
May 2016
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highprincipleswork
(3,111 posts)1. And by making it clear that we want Progressive politics from the Democratic nominee. One can choose
to ignore it, if one wants to disenfranchise a huge amount of voters, but one can't say the point has not been made.
dubyadiprecession
(5,722 posts)2. BS has that look on his face, as though he doesn't know if he...
can even sell himself on running anymore. Take a good look at him as he speaks next time. The spark isn't there anymore.
Logical
(22,457 posts)3. Lol, and Hillary look sick about this being so long and close
LoverOfLiberty
(1,438 posts)4. Stop the whining ideed!
Over 3,000,000 more voters have said that they prefer Hillary over Bernie in November.
rhett o rick
(55,981 posts)5. But, but Hillary isn't strong enogh to defeat Sanders and then Trump.
Well maybe she isn't the best candidate then.
ecstatic
(32,731 posts)6. That was before Cruz and Kasich dropped out.
I can assure you, the longer Bernie stays in it now that repubs have picked their nominee, the more hated Bernie will be going forward.
uponit7771
(90,364 posts)7. Polls are ran by corporations so all of them are false!!!!