Young Women Actually Make Up More of Bernie's Base Than Men Do

[Uncle Joe]

New findings from The Economist show that women under 45 make up a larger share of Bernie Sanders’ base than do men in their same age group, contradicting a popular narrative that says the 2020 Democratic candidate's supporters are overwhelmingly white and male, to the virtual exclusion of other groups.

This narrative often hinges on the “Bernie Bro,” a term Atlantic writer Robinson Meyer coined during the 2016 election to describe a type of mansplaining internet harasser that some came to see as representative of all Sanders voters. Bernie Bros were a “mob” flooding the Twitter mentions of Hillary Clinton supporters; they were “sexist,” even “enthusiastically” so; and they were loud and aggressive when expressing their uncompromising support for their candidate.

Polling has continually proven that Sanders’ base is much more diverse than the figure of the Bernie Bro would suggest: An analysis of polling between November 2018 and March 2019 found both that Sanders was more popular among people of color than among white people, and that women supported Sanders just as much as men did, “if not more,” according to Vox. Earlier this month, a Univision Noticias poll found Sanders was the candidate Latino voters favored most after current Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden. And The Economist’s latest numbers show Sanders in the number-two spot behind Biden with Hispanic and Black voters.

Yet the Bernie Bro concept continues to endure, much to the chagrin of Sanders’ women supporters, who say it ignores a significant portion of the Vermont senator’s base.

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gyzjmb/bernie-bros-women-under-45-make-up-a-larger-share-of-bernie-sanders-base-than-men

[Buzz cook]

1. The squeaky wheel

I'm glad that Sanders base is more diverse. But being a recipient of some of the bile from Sanders supporters in 2016, the bros were much more noticeable.

In hindsight I suppose many of them were Russian trolls. Still the memory lingers.

Surprisingly I find myself defending Sanders now and its another candidates supporters that seem didactic and intolerant.

[PhoenixDem]

2. How are they reacting to the messages to the WFP staffers

like "I am glad you were raped"

Any polls planned on that?

[beastie boy]

3. And the cited interactive chart also shows Bernie a distant third with women 45 and older

https://projects.economist.com/democratic-primaries-2020/candidate/bernie-sanders/

And other charts in the same report show Bernie being more popular over all with men, especially white men, than women.

So unless we all agree (and who wouldn't, right?) that from now on only voters under 45 count, the Bernie Bro concept (actually, it's not as much a concept as it is an observation) remains alive and well, firmly supported by the latest data that you were good enough to supply.