2016 Postmortem
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(53,475 posts)Onlooker
(5,636 posts)Sanders apparently does well with those of Asian descent and maybe Native Americans, though Hillary has won most of the states with larger Native American populations.
Source:
http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/u-s-election-2016/.premium-1.709293)
http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/187577/bernie-sanders-popular-candidate-among-asian-americans.aspx
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Alaska and Oklahoma. The 3rd, 4th, and 5th highest states have not had primaries yet.
"The proportion of Alaskas population identified as American Indian and Alaska Native, alone or in combination, (was 19.4%) in 2014, the highest share for this race group of any state. Alaska was followed by Oklahoma (13.5 percent), New Mexico (10.4 percent), South Dakota (10.1 percent) and Montana (8.0 percent). The estimates for New Mexico and South Dakota were not significantly different from one another."
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/aihmcensus1.html
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)but rather loud.
Chew on that one.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)I know, I know, we want to believe that dems don't participate in dog-whistling, but many of them do.
One of the negative themes widely disseminated against Bernie is he's a guy who doesn't care about urban people of color or women and said groups aren't supposed to support him. That meme must be protected to remain effective and it's seriously dinged up, but that's dismissed by blaming it on millennials (who aren't dependable voters etc, etc)
If a state is largely rural or white a win in such a place couldn't be have been supported by urban people of color. The meme is made secure.
Message management is what campaigns do, and the success of that management is seen in the continued use of the message by media.
Jitter65
(3,089 posts)jumped all over this. That was the first thing out of his mouth after super Tuesday. Now, just like almost everything else, he and his supporters attempt to blame the DNC or the Clinton campaign for something he started himself.
He takes absolutely no responsibility for anything he or his campaign does.
eridani
(51,907 posts)uponit7771
(90,370 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders won his three contests in ultra-diverse states Alaska, Hawaii, and Washington with 81.6%, 69.8%, and 72.7% shares of the vote, respectively.
In all three states, Sanders exceeded expectations dramatically. Polling website FiveThirtyEight.com had predicted 8-point wins for Sanders in Hawaii and Alaska, and a more generous 17-point win in Washington.
Instead, Sanders won Alaska by 61.5 points, Hawaii by 39.8, and Washington the largest of the three Western Saturday states by a jaw-dropping 45.6 points.
(As a side note, Sanders also just won the Democrats Abroad primary which awards as many delegates as do Alaska, Vermont, or Wyoming 69% to 30%. While the demographic breakdown of Democrats Abroad voters is unknown, we do know that Sanders defeated Clinton in 167 of 170 countries those last four words might be worth reading twice and that in one of the three countries Clinton won, only five people voted. That means Sanders won among Democrats in every majority-nonwhite country in the world that has Democrats in it other than Nigeria, Singapore, and the Dominican Republic. As noted, only five people voted in Nigeria; in Singapore, Clintons win was a relatively modest one, 58% to 42%. I wont list the 167 countries Sanders won, as I just dont have the space here.)
If you thought these four decisive Sanders wins offered the national media a pretty good opportunity to drop its ridiculous narrative about Bernie Sanders supporters namely, that nearly all of them are white you either dont understand how firmly in the Clinton camp even mainstream media organizations are, or you dont pay any attention to domestic politics at all. Most of us knew what to expect from the media after seeing months of purportedly objective panels on CNN and MSNBC comprised entirely of Clinton surrogates or neutral reporters; watching media outlets fail to cover even a single second of election-night speeches by Sanders; and cringing as every major media organization continued counting super-delegates as though these were earned and confirmed votes, despite a DNC directive to not tally them until the summertime.
ContinentalOp
(5,356 posts)I don't know how you could consider Washington "ultra diverse." And claiming that both Washington and Alaska are in the top 10 for diversity is really stretching it. I suppose there are a lot of different ways to measure diversity, but if we just look at the percentage of the population that identifies as non-hispanic white* it breaks down like this, from most to least diverse.
Hawaii - Sanders
D.C. - TBD
California - TBD
New Mexico - TBD
Texas - Clinton
Nevada - Clinton
Maryland - TBD
Georgia - Clinton
Florida - Clinton
Arizona - Clinton
New York - TBD
Mississippi - Clinton
New Jersey - TBD
Louisiana - Clinton
Alaska - Sanders
Illinois - Clinton
Virginia - Clinton
South Carolina - Clinton
Delaware - TBD
North Carolina - Clinton
Alabama - Clinton
Oklahoma - Sanders
Colorado - Sanders
Conneticut - TBD
Washington - Sanders
Arkansas - Clinton
That's the top half of the most diverse states + D.C. and the results are Clinton 13, Sanders 5.
* http://www.indexmundi.com/facts/united-states/quick-facts/all-states/white-not-hispanic-population-percentage#chart