Democratic Primaries 2020 - With a whimper

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Another useful comparison is to 2008, when the question was whether Clinton supporters would vote for Barack Obama or John McCain (R-Ariz.) Based on data from the 2008 Cooperative Campaign Analysis Project, a YouGov survey that also interviewed respondents multiple times during the campaign, 24 percent of people who supported Clinton in the primary as of March 2008 then reported voting for McCain in the general election.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/08/24/did-enough-bernie-sanders-supporters-vote-for-trump-to-cost-clinton-the-election/%3FoutputType%3Damp

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As I have stated many, many, times, the only evidence for this claim is one unscientific poll. And it gets Repeated so many times eventually itā€™s spouted like itā€™s scientific fact that this happened. You guys do this with a lot of things.

It should be a rule that anyone who posts this bs ā€œstatā€ should be forced to talk about how sanders ā†’ trump voters mathematically cost Hillary the election 2016. Because that was a result that actually mattered.

Carry on, Iā€™m out again.

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https://twitter.com/AndrewYang/status/1247910318786908162

Posts lies and runs away

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As a diehardā€¦ There better have been a fucking deal.

Otherwise itā€™s literally nothing.

Iā€™ll elaborate more later in my Official Unhinged Toxic Diatribe. Stay tuned!

Well, heā€™s probably going to campaign for Biden just like he did for Hillary.

Yep and he sucks for doing so.

A deal is in the better range of outcomes. Iā€™m toying with the idea of an even worse possibility.

Gotcha, unscientific polls to slander Bernie are cool but when an unscientific poll is used simply to counter that BS narrative then we are gonna get real rigorous all of a sudden.

Vast majority of people that voted for Bernie did so because they are good people that want a better world. Vast majority are going to vote Biden because they prefer the slightly less shitty policy that Biden offers compared to Trump. A handful will not because people are weird. Period, end of story.

Anyone claiming otherwise is taking the some idiosyncratic people (including likely strategic R/Trump voters) to tarnish Bernie for their own agenda.

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When the pack of candidates decided to fall in line for Joe, Yang was the only surprise. His tweet is as much lip service as Peteā€™s.

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The ā€œwhen you hear hoof beat you think horses, not zebrasā€ explanation is that Bernie realized heā€™s not going to win, that the primaries are dangerous at this point, and of course heā€™s going to endorse the lesser of two evils, but heā€™s still going to stump for M4A, $15/hr, the GND etcā€¦

https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/1247979632172904451

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toxic?

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Literal simps

Right, and thinking that difference between thinking that and forcing/not forcing concessions is huge.

Iā€™m not really following, but I do not think ā€œconcessionsā€ are worth one single solitary ass of a rat.

Wait, Victoar is banned??

Right. It will be about the same as it ever was. There are a certain amount of people especially in a heated contest who will not cross over and its usually about 10-20%.

Id guess if this went the other way, given the hate of Bernie, it would be an even greater number of eDems who would not vote for him.

Yeah me neither but Iā€™m looking for a silver lining.

I just woke up lol, still processing.

This is such a fucking joke.

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