Sanders Says He'll Attract a Wave of New Voters. It Hasn't Happened.

[highplainsdem]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/24/us/politics/bernie-sanders-democratic-voters.html

CHARLESTON, S.C. — It is the most politically provocative part of Senator Bernie Sanders’s campaign pitch: that his progressive movement will bring millions of nonvoters into the November election, driving record turnout especially among disaffected working-class Americans and young people.


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The results so far show that Mr. Sanders has prevailed by broadening his appeal among traditional Democratic voters, not by fundamentally transforming the electorate.

In Iowa, for instance, turnout for the caucuses was lower than expected, up 3 percent compared with 2016, and the increase was concentrated in more well-educated areas where Mr. Sanders struggled, according to a New York Times analysis; in the Iowa precincts where Mr. Sanders won, turnout increased by only 1 percentage point.

There was no sign of a Sanders voter surge in New Hampshire either, nor on Saturday in Nevada, where the nearly final results indicated that turnout would finish above 2016 but well short of 2008 levels, despite a decade of population growth and a new early voting option that attracted some 75,000 voters. The low numbers are all the more striking given the huge turnout in the 2018 midterm elections, which was the highest in a century.

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I found this article, btw, thanks to a tweet minutes ago from Rachel Bitecofer, who's been quoted a lot here by people thinking her findings make a strong case for Sanders and Warren.

Here's her tweet:

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There’s been nothing revolutionary about Democratic turnout in the primaries. Better than’16, weaker than ‘08- Sanders revolution is a plurality revolution made possible by a too divided moderate faction

[Shermann]

1. My concern is all these young people voting in the online polls

...but not in the voting booths.

[Squinch]

2. Never. It has NEVER happened.

[VarryOn]

5. Young voters are....

Unreliable.They sound great in theory but aren't worth much in practice.

[Squinch]

6. And when they DID come out, in 2018, they voted big for moderates.

Our Revolution and Bernie backed candidates got trampled.

[Cha]

3. KR

[samnsara]

4. thats is the same photo my dtr sent me after she cast her vote for BS..and I gasped loudly..

...she said stuff like...'in the 60s when you guys were fighting for stuff hes brought all that back!' I said NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! there was Viet Nam going on...and Apartheid...and friggen NIXON.... and we were all pissed and in the end all the activists of my day turned Republican. I told her thats why theres NO ONE our age in those photos...cuz WE KNOW!!!...and my 17 yr old grand dtr pre-registered and wants bs...wtf... hes older than most of her clothes!! Friggen social media. I am SO glad I never watched The Apprentice nor was sucked into 'The Bern'...I am my own woman..hear me roar!!


goddammit!

[highplainsdem]

7. kick

[Gothmog]

8. Without a magical voter revolution, none of sanders proposals will be adopted

[stopdiggin]

9. not only have the primary numbers (so far) been disappointing

(certainly no surge showing up here)
But "young voters" and "new voters" have been especially flat. No real uptick at all.

So maybe all this "bringing new people in" .. is going to happen in the general? -- --

[dalton99a]

10. They live in St. Petersburg

and work for the Internet Research Agency

[MrsCoffee]

11. The fake revolution will not be televised.

[Gothmog]

12. How does sanders magical voter revolution work in the real world if no new voters show uP?

I have never taken sanders seriously due to a complete lack of legislative accomplishments of sanders and the fact that I do not understand sanders voter revolution The NYT also did not understand how sanders voter revolution works

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Like the NYT, I have questions about this voter revolution concept. I have asked sanders supporters to explain this concept to me and so far no one seems to know how this voter revolution will work in the real world https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1287&pid=430371

Gothmog (78,308 posts)
64. Exactly how does sanders voter revolution work in the real world?

It is my understanding that even sanders has acknowledged that he cannot adopt his platform unless he holds rallies and this voter revolution occurs. Is this correct? How does this voter revolution work in the real world? Again as I understand this concept, so many new voters will rise up and force the GOP to be reasonable. Is this correct? How many new voters does it take to accomplish this goal and where are these voters? How will these new voters force the GOP to be reasonable when so many GOP officeholders are in gerrymandered districts? Will these new voters move to these districts in time to vote for sanders’ platform? If these new voters are real, then why are theses new voters not showing up in the polls? New voters in such large numbers so as to cause the GOP to be reasonable should show up in polling. Are these new voters waiting for something? If these new voters really exist in the real world, why has sanders not used these new voters to get some meaningful legislation passed?

I look forward to answers to these questions

sanders interview with the NYT may have gone better if he had explained how this revolution would work in the real world. I am still curious

[Gothmog]

13. Research reveals that Sen. Sanders's electability is based on a polling mirage.

Link to tweet

[uponit7771]

14. Sanders says he will create 20 million jobs uninformed people believe him. That's what's important