Resistance Report - A new poll finds that Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vermont) popularity is greater among minorities and women than among whites and men.
The survey,
conducted by Harvard University and The Harris Poll, disproves the
“Bernie Bro” trope with hard numbers. According to the survey results,
which were conducted among 2,027 registered voters between April 14 and
April 17, 2017, Sanders is actually
more popular among women, African Americans, Hispanics, and Asian Americans than white people and men.
The poll shows 55 percent of men and 52 percent of whites approve of
Bernie Sanders. However, Sanders is approved by 73 percent of African
Americans, 68 percent of Hispanics, 62 percent of Asian Americans, and
58 percent of women. And even though Sanders identifies as independent,
80 percent of Democrats approve of him.
During the 2016 Democratic presidential primary contest, the “Bernie
Bro” trope became a tried-and-true myth propagated by officials at the
highest levels of the national Democratic Party apparatus. The
pejorative —
first deployed in late 2015
— was used to depict Sanders’ most ardent supporters as limited to
young white men between the ages of 25 and 35 who were vociferous in
both their support of the Vermont senator and their opposition to the
eventual Democratic nominee and failed general election candidate
Hillary Clinton.
Before serving as chairman of the Democratic National Committee and
while employed as Obama’s labor secretary, Tom Perez encouraged the
Clinton campaign early on in the primary election cycle to demean her
opponent by labeling him as a favorite of white men and unpopular with
the African American, female, and the Latinx demographics. According to
emails leaked by WikiLeaks,
Perez encouraged Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta to use the Bernie Bro myth in order to win the Nevada caucus:
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I wonder how they'll spin this over at salon.com?
The changing of the guard was shown in GOP by the alt-right coup after the expulsion of the Bushes. Sanders will have to generate his loyalists from red seats that he turns blue and replaced retirees.
The changing of the guard in GOP came with the expulsion of the Bushes. Sanders will have to generate his own loyalists from red seats that he turns blue and replaced retirees. The anti-Sanders bosses haven't yet faced primaries. If they do, the party might avoid irrelevance.
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