Absolutely Remarkable': Poll Shows Democratic Voters in Texas and California

[Uncle Joe]

View Socialism More Positively Than Capitalism

Likely Democratic presidential primary voters in Texas and California—the two states with the most pledged delegates to award on Super Tuesday—view socialism more positively than capitalism, according to a CBS News/YouGov tracking poll released Sunday.

The survey showed 56% of Democratic primary voters in Texas and 57% in California have a favorable view of socialism. Just 37% of Democratic voters in Texas and 45% in California have a positive view of capitalism, the poll found, signaling widespread discontent with the vastly unequal economic status quo.

"I care more about advancing class struggle and a political program that can help working people than how an undefined 'socialism' and 'capitalism' polls, but this is still an absolutely remarkable development," tweeted Bhaskar Sunkara, publisher of the socialist magazine Jacobin.

The same survey showed Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), a self-identified democratic socialist, leading the presidential primary field in both Texas and California, which will award a combined 643 pledged delegates on Tuesday.

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Link to tweet

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https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/03/02/absolutely-remarkable-poll-shows-democratic-voters-texas-and-california-view

[msongs]

1. if bernie was actually a socialist, which he is not, this might benefit him good luck nt

[mucifer]

4. Damned if you do, damned if you don't

[George II]

2. commondreams.....

[Ace Rothstein]

8. It is a CBS/YouGov poll.

[SiliconValley_Dem]

3. Let's look at similar measure of how Dems in those states feel about guns

And how they feel about electability?

[Turin_C3PO]

5. That doesn't necessarily indicate support for Sanders.

For instance, many of my sympathies lie with socialism as opposed to capitalism, at least the type we have in this country. Yet I support Biden because I think he can get more done in office and also beat Trump.

[TexasTowelie]

6. I certainly realize the flaws of capitalism and favor a lot polices that can be construed

as socialism, but that doesn't mean I'm voting for Bernie. Considering that Bernie has underperformed his poll numbers, I expect Biden to pull the upset over Bernie now that Buttigieg and Klobuchar have withdrawn from the race.

[NYMinute]

7. Useless poll -- it's a new game after SC