EXCUSES: #Bernie Blames Losses on Poor People Not Voting, Ignores How They’ve Voted

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EXCUSES: #Bernie Blames Losses on Poor People Not Voting, Ignores How They’ve Voted http://bluenationreview.com/bernie-blames-losses-on-poor-people-not-voting/ … #FeelTheBern #ImWithHer #Hillary





EXCUSES: Bernie Blames Losses on Poor People Not Voting, Ignores How They’ve Voted

The excuses are piling up: Bernie is losing because of the deep south, or voter fraud, or superdelegates, or super PACs, or the DNC, or the “establishment,” or because he isn’t trying, or because poor people don’t vote.

Here’s the reality: Hillary is winning because Hillary has more votes and is energizing more people. But you wouldn’t know that if you listened to Bernie and his surrogates. Their excuses for losing are a veiled attempt to delegitimize Hillary’s success. It’s a tactic that Donald Trump is using too, suggesting a “rigged” system accounts for her success.

Now, the Washington Post reports:

Bernie Sanders said Saturday that many of his losses to Hillary Clinton in Democratic primaries were because “poor people don’t vote.”

But then there’s this:

It’s not clear that larger turnout among poor voters would have actually helped Sanders against Clinton, however. Sanders has lost Democratic voters with household incomes below $50,000 by 55 percent to 44 percent to Clinton across primaries where network exit polls have been conducted.

In other words, if more poor people voted, Bernie would lose more ground to Hillary.









(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)


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X-posted in LBN:

Sanders says he has lost primaries to Clinton because ‘poor people don’t vote’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/04/23/sanders-says-he-has-lost-primaries-to-clinton-because-poor-people-dont-vote/


By John Wagner and Anne Gearan April 23 at 5:41 PM


WILMINGTON, Del. — White House hopeful Bernie Sanders said Saturday that many of his losses to Hillary Clinton in Democratic primaries were because “poor people don’t vote.”

The senator from Vermont,.....................was asked during a taping of NBC’s “Meet the Press” why Clinton had prevailed in 16 of 17 states so far with the highest levels of income inequalilty.

“Well, because poor people don't vote,” Sanders told host Chuck Todd...............

[Trust Buster]

1. Poor Democrats and southern Democrats be damned in the self absorbed World of Sanders.

[MoonRiver]

2. Bernie just keeps digging that hole.

If I were him, I would refrain from interviews. It isn't a format that becomes him.

[JaneyVee]

3. What the hell???