Bernie appears to be having major issues attracting Hispanic voters (Hillary leads 84% to 8%)

[Cali_Democrat]

We know all about Bernie's problem getting African American support, but now it appears Bernie is having even more trouble attracting Hispanic support:

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Clinton's leading within every demographic group on the Democratic side but it's closer with some segments of the electorate than others. She leads Sanders just 50/36 with white voters, but is up 70/13 with African Americans and 84/8 with Hispanics.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/11/gop-has-clear-top-4-clinton-dominant-for-dems-general-election-tight.html

Also, PPP was the most accurate pollster during the last presidential election cycle.

[NCTraveler]

1. Take a look at Sanders votes in '07.

Also take a look at how one of the Latino/Hispanic communities strongest progressive supporters is treated by Sanders supporters.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026821069

I expect Sanders support to slightly grow with the AA community. If anything I think he will go down from the 8% as the Latino/Hispanic community learns more about him.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. Yup. The more they hear about him, the more they don't like him. nt

[ThePhilosopher04]

9. You have that exactly backwards.

[DCBob]

14. Cali Dem has it right.

Imo.

[Cali_Democrat]

15. Their last poll showed a closer race among Hispanics:

From Oct 6th:

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2015/PPP_Release_NationalDems_100615.pdf

Among Hispanics:

Hilary:43%
Sanders:26%
Biden:22%

Now:

Hillary: 84%
Sanders: 8%

[lunamagica]

16. He voted against immigration reform, and also was a YES vote on an admendment in favor

of the racist vigilante group the minutemen which targets Hispanics.

Learning that doesn't exactly endear him to the Latin population.

[Rebkeh]

3. At this time

The people who know who Bernie is are people who follow politics closely, the vast majority of the country is not engaged in the elections yet. In time, they will be.

Hillary has been (in)famous for decades.

I have complete confidence that once people get to know Bernie, they will love him.

Hillary is familiar to people, not necessarily in a comforting way either.

Basically, this poll is meaningless to me because the familiar holds more weight with the dis/un engaged than potential does.

[Godhumor]

4. There is only 2 and a half months until the first primary

How much more time does he need?

[Cali_Democrat]

5. He's been in Congress almost 25 years.

He's been the main challenger to Hillary. We;ve already had two debates.

How come people still don't know him?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Why is it that every group who isn't inclined to vote for him is too ill informed to know who he is?

Thank you in advance.

[Nitram]

7. They've got an excuse for everything.

And a fantasy to cure them all.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. Like a panacea

[SidDithers]

19. MIght be the wrong version of that video...

Looks like someone overdubbed the song with something other than Jackson and McCartney, starting at about the 1:15 mark.



Sid

[Kentonio]

10. Most of the country are wildly ill informed when it comes to politics

If you believe otherwise, then the world is an incredibly terrifying place considering the huge numbers who have supported some extremely unpleasant GOP candidates in the recent past.

[Number23]

22. Question of the FUCKING Millennium. And we're only 15 years into it

Why is it that every group who isn't inclined to vote for him is too ill informed to know who he is?

A fucking men. Seriously. The whole damn world wants an answer to this.

[Gothmog]

11. Sanders is not polling well in Texas due to this lack of support by Latino voters

[Cali_Democrat]

12. .

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[Cha]

13. Gracias, Cali

[DCBob]

17. Not surprised. I suspect Bernie doesnt interact with many Hispanics in Vermont

In fact is there a single Hispanic in the entire state of Vermont?

[Beacool]

18. During a summer vacation from law school, Hillary went to TX to register Hispanics to vote.

Bill went with her, but it was her cause not his. Hispanics have been big supporters of the Clintons for decades. I don't see that changing anytime soon. In 2008 they only went to Obama in large numbers when he became the nominee.

Sanders does poorly with AA too, the majority support Hillary (70% to Sander's 13%).

Added to Hillary having the support of 69& of Democratic women, I think that the chances of Sanders winning the nomination are slim.

[Alfresco]

20. That is a huge gap.

Hillary is doing a great job.

[NurseJackie]

21. Bernie won't be able to win the nomination

with numbers like that.

[Alfresco]

24. And that is the truth.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

23. I suspect HRC is doing very well among Hispanics but not that well...

I also suspect HRC is doing a tad bit better with African Americans.

One needs to be careful about making inferences from small sub samples with consequent large margins of error.