Dispelling the Lunatic Right Wing Meme about Sanders Voters

[Jw2]

you know, that fantasy that Senator Sanders supporters will hate Secretary Clinton so much, they will flock to Team Trump.



Sanders Voters Pick Hillary Over Trump 81% to 8%


Donald Trump would like for Bernie Sanders supporters to ditch the Democratic Party and support him.

Well, we have some bad news for the Trump campaign. Sanders supporters aren't just rallying around Clinton; they're doing it rather quickly. And it's a big reason Clinton just extended her lead over Trump into the double digits, 51 percent to 39 percent. Sanders backers, who polls have shown were reluctant to jump over to Clinton and even flirted with supporting Trump, are coming home faster than we might have expected.

Last month, 20 percent of Sanders supporters said they would back Trump over Clinton in the general election. This month, that figure is down to 8 percent.

And the poll was conducted before, we would note, Sanders began saying last week that he would support Clinton over Trump in the general election

Indeed, as a Pew poll last week showed, Sanders supporters were more anti-Republican Party than Clinton backers. About 7 in 10 of them, in fact, said the Republican Party makes them "afraid" -- vs. 55 percent of Clinton supporters.


That was never really a recipe for a big crossover vote. And this poll suggests that possibility has been foreclosed.



so...the idealistic left and the pragmatic left come together to defeat the very wrong right. 

[D2D]

We will see on election day!

[Dan]

I agree.  Sanders is a lunatic.

[HK91-762mm]

  I know people who vote democrat who HATE Hitlery!! and this is back in NY ,, I can only wonder about people in Ohio,,Fla, and VA...

[chuck_curtis]

Well take the 8%.  That's a high defection rate.  We don't need many.

[Jim]

[D2D]

That Secret Service agent says in his book Hillary constantly screamed at him and called him names!

If it was suicide she drove him to it!

[wmdn_bs]

Well take the 8%.  That's a high defection rate.  We don't need many.

OK, and we'll take these. http://www.politicususa.com/2016/04/25/bombshell-poll-20-republicans-vote-hillary-clinton-trump-wins.html

[darkflower]

The poll was flawed. What percent will go third party?

And point of fact, electing a non-progressive dem is worse for progressives than any republican. Who wants to spend four years being told to stfu for the good of the party? Or worse, 8 years. At least dems pretend to care about progressives when reps are in the white house. When they have the white house they tell us to shut up and get in line. Screw that. A whole lot of Sanders supporters will never ever ever vote for that pos clinton.

[D2D]

What are progressives progressing toward?

[chuck_curtis]

More of the same, D2D.

[wmdn_bs]

If you think Trump would be better for the country than Clinton, DarkFlower, than you are further removed from reality than any of these tools on the right have accused you of being.