fun fact: nearly half the Sanders voters in WV say they will vote for Trump in November. Ain't open

[Bill USA]

.. primaries fun?? Republicans fearing Hillary sure love 'em!



http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/279430-nearly-half-of-sanders-voters-in-west-virginia-would-vote

Nearly half of the voters in the West Virginia Democratic primary who backed Bernie Sanders say they would vote for Republican Donald Trump in the fall presidential election, according to exit polls reported by CBS News.

[oldandhappy]

1. five months is a long time.

[MADem]

2. That suggests they were never onboard with Sanders' agenda in the first place. nt

[Bill USA]

3. EXACTLY!!

[TCJ70]

5. No it doesn't...

...it suggests that if the choice is Trump or Clinton they choose Trump. Sanders has nothing to do with it.

[MADem]

6. LOL--listen to yourself!

I am quite astounded that you said this:

TCJ70
5. No it doesn't...
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...it suggests that if the choice is Trump or Clinton they choose Trump. Sanders has nothing to do with it.

Clinton isn't in favor of building a wall and making Mexico pay for it, she doesn't call Mexicans dirty, criminals, rapists, she doesn't mock women based on their appearance or say that they should be punished for exercising their right to choose, she doesn't have a "give 'em all nukes" strategy, she's not planning on meeting up with Li'l Kim, she doesn't think the minimum wage should be LOWERED.... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Anyone who would vote for Trump over Clinton is a right wing nut job. Not just a right wing nut job--an incredibly stupid far-right wing nut job.

[CobaltBlue]

4. Bill USA—According to Chuck Todd’s and Sheldon Gawiser’s book…

How Barack Obama Won…, in a 2004 and 2008 West Virginia, the self-identified Democrats gave both John Kerry and Barack Obama 69 percent of their vote. Self-identified Republicans gave George W. Bush 94 percent and John McCain 92 percent of their votes.

West Virginia, which first voted in 1864, is a state which had carried for all two-term presidents at least once. It tilted Democratic. Every winning Democrat had carried the state except for Woodrow Wilson’s re-election in 1916. The 2000s put the state on a trajectory of trending Republican. West Virginia still has its self-identified Democrats. But, when they say that is how they self-identify (as was the case in 2004 and 2008, with 50 and 48 percent), their votes did not line up with how they actually voted at least at the presidential level. More Republican victories in the state in recent elections—U.S. Senate and U.S. House seats—and, despite the state not exit-polled in 2012, self-identified Democrats’ numbers continue to trend Republican.

It is no surprise Bernie Sanders won West Virginia over Hillary Clinton. He has a better reach than she does in getting support from white working class people who are also voters. This is another reason Bernie Sanders, more so than Hillary Clinton, has broader support.