Survey Monkey Poll Says Only Ages 18-24 Are Feelin' the Bern; The Rest of Democrats Are Cool

 

VOX analyzes this week's NBC Newws/Survey Monkey national poll of Democrats and Democrat leaners, Jan. 4-10 and comes up with ‪#‎s‬that jibe with our own in-depth analysis of numerous polls and reported on this FB wall frequently.

For all the media and Internet hype, the ONLY age group in which Bernie Sanders is way ahead of Hillary Clinton is among the 18-24 age group. You won't hear this fact on MSNBC, but it is the truth as the best we know it.

VOX graphs it out for us.

AGE

Once we look at people age 24-35, Hillary is even with Bernie. After age 35, she pulls out all the stops.

RACE

Whites love Sanders. Period. Among Whites, Clinton and Sanders are even. After that Hillary pulls out all the stops.

GENDER

Men support Hillary over Sanders but by only 6%. We all know that white men support Sanders -- although plenty of smart ones age 24 and over support Hillary.

Among women, Hillary pulls out all the stops, leading Bernie 56% to 32%. This is why Bernie supporters like Susan Sarandon are demeaning women with the suggestion that -- unlike us -- she has a brain and isn't voting with her vagina.

Do the Democrats Have a Next Act? Politico

The Democrats also face a particular challenge in hammering out a coherent new vision. Their party’s internal ideological differences have drawn less attention than the loud intramural arguments among Republicans, but they are in a sense more pronounced. The Sanders-Warren-labor-left wing of the party sees the plight of the middle and working classes as a function of institutional changes over the past 40 years—deregulation, the weakening of unions—that only power politics can overcome by strengthening such institutions and protections once more.

The Clinton-Obama wing is more apt to see such problems as the result of larger forces in the national and global economy—and of rapid technological and social change that must somehow be managed, not resisted.

That is an intensely sharp divide, and one that the Democrats will presumably be forced to reconcile eventually or suffer the consequences of disunion. But bridging the gap will not be easy because the two competing worldviews imply contradictory (even incompatible) political messages and policy proposals.

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