Political pundits are awash in comparing the youth vote behind America's Bernie Sanders and Britain's Jeremy Corbyn, two "grumpy old socialists from the sidelines of politics who have been saying the same thing since the 1980s" and now suddenly find themselves being "idolised as the standard-bearers of a new leftwing movement", writes The Guardian.

As the race is holding in polling this moment, there is one factor in America's caucus, primary voting that may break differently. Young voters of color have not yet bought into Bernie Bern. Always looking to read the data in the least critical thinking required analysis, it's true that Bernie Sanders is cleaning up with younger voters in Iowa and New Hampshire. But all projections are that he meets a very different tribe of young voters as he heads south.

In all honesty, all of America's young voters are up against the wall with insecure futures. But young people of color are more so, whichmay be a reason why they're not so quick to jump on the Bernie Sanders bandwagon. No matter what the Sanders crowd says, it's not as if Hillary Clinton has no history in political activism among people of color.

Left-Leaning Economists Question Cost of Bernie Sanders Plans New York Times

By the reckoning of the left-of-center economists, none of whom are working for Mrs. Clinton, the proposals would add $2 trillion to $3 trillion a year on average to federal spending; by comparison, total federal spending is projected to be above $4 trillion in the next president’s first year. “The numbers don’t remotely add up,” said Austan Goolsbee, formerly chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, now at the University of Chicago.

Alluding to one progressive analyst’s criticism of the Sanders agenda as “puppies and rainbows,” Mr. Goolsbee said that after his and others’ further study, “they’ve evolved into magic flying puppies with winning Lotto tickets tied to their collars.”

Hillary Clinton Headlines February 16, 2016

Clinton Campaign Says It Has Experienced Its Own Small Donor Boom Washington Post

Hillary Had My Back Huffington Post

Live from South Carolina Politico

Hillary HQ: Texas Early Voting Starts Today! Hillary HQ.com

How the 'Obama effect' helps Hillary Clinton and hurts Bernie Sanders, with black voters Washington Post

Sanders Social Security Plan Won't Work - No Wonder The Hill

It's Time for Bernie Sanders To Release His Tax Returns Daily Kos

The 'New Look' of the Post-Obama Electorate by Theodore R. Johnson The Atlantic

As the black American experience becomes more nuanced due to a wider mix of income, education, housing, geography, and a number of other socioeconomic indicators within the group, the electorate’s policy views have become more varied and complex. This, coupled with exasperation with electoral politics, has revealed that many blacks are beginning to feel like a people without a party.

As I’ve previously written, the intra-racial diversity of lived experiences is exposing fault lines between blacks and the Democratic Party. This is evident in how Democratic presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton have been more vigorously challenged on race issues than in past election cycles. Moreover, more black Republicans are running for national office: Half of the newest black members of Congress are Republicans, and more black Republicans have run for the presidency since 2000 than black Democrats. In 2012, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney nearly doubled the percentage of black Republican votes compared with McCain in 2008. And new research shows that some segments of the black electorate are beginning to prioritize their self-interests over the group’s well-being—a departure from the black voting canon.