Where is the present "Democratic Party"?

[kentuck]

Does the majority of the Democratic Party stand with the ideas of Bernie Sanders or with the ideas of Hillary Clinton? Is it fair to judge the Party by who is representing the Party in the next election?

Recent polls show that those folks that are under 35 years of age, by a wide margin, support Bernie Sanders. Those that are 65 and older support Hillary Clinton. How should we interpret this? Has the Party become stagnant and no longer representative of the majority of the people that call themselves "Democrats"?

[Ferd Berfel]

1. Bernie IS Mainstream

You can download the rest of this poll (pdf) here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.boldprogressives.org/images/Big_Ideas-Polling_PDF-1.pdf

Hillary ant the Republicans are NOT!

[kentuck]

3. Thanks for these charts !

They are great !

[Ferd Berfel]

6. Tx. didn't have time to do highlights but

take a close look at the first list. How many of these issues do you think Hillary would actually support.
Not how many she will triangulate on, but how many would she ACTUALLY support and work for......?

....compared to Bernie.....

[ypsfonos]

2. Far to the LEFT of

where THEY THINK IT IS!

[Art_from_Ark]

4. I joined the party in the 1970s

When I was in high school, Nixon was on his way to impeachment as a result of the Watergate hearings. I actually had mixed emotions about that, because Nixon had started the EPA (the public pressure after the Santa Barbara oil spill and the Cuyahoga River fire was probably too great for him to ignore), and his Interior Secretary, Walter Hickel, was a pretty decent guy (completely different from Reagan's anti-secretary, James Watt). But Reagan was the worst President in my lifetime, until GWB snuck into the White House. I support Sanders because he represents the ideals of the Democratic Party I joined when I was a newly-minted voter back in the Carter era.

[firebrand80]

5. Breaking News: Young People Think Defferently

Than Their Parents and Grandparents. More on this story and the greying of the middle-aged President's hair at 11.

[workinclasszero]

7. So what is stopping this so called Bernie majority from taking over the party?

Sitting on their collective asses watching TV in off year elections maybe?

[kentuck]

8. Yep...

and some people can continue to pretend that their numbers are so small to be meaningless. The majority by far supports the moderate, DLC branch of the Party.