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WaPo: More Americans support Bernie Sanders than Donald Trump
More Americans support Bernie Sanders than Donald TrumpPhilip Bump
Washington Post
For all of the attention paid to the Republican primary -- thanks in large part to the classy marquee name of Donald Trump -- it's worth pointing something out: More Americans currently support Hillary Clinton than Trump, which you probably already knew. But it's safe to assume that more Americans also support Bernie Sanders.
This is not hard-and-fast and relies on numbers that have a decent margin of error. But we can also simplify the argument. About half the country is Democratic and about half is Republican. Sanders gets about 25.1 percent of Democratic voters; Trump gets 23.7 percent of Republican ones. Ergo: America is Bernie Country more than it is Trumpland.
This is not hard-and-fast and relies on numbers that have a decent margin of error. But we can also simplify the argument. About half the country is Democratic and about half is Republican. Sanders gets about 25.1 percent of Democratic voters; Trump gets 23.7 percent of Republican ones. Ergo: America is Bernie Country more than it is Trumpland.
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(This is not a comment about Bernie, but about American idiocy)
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