Pennsylvania Deplorable
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« on: February 25, 2018, 06:32:22 PM » |
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Nonwhites would still have voted overwhelmingly for Bernie in the general election if he was the candidate. His coalition would have been exactly like the Obama one. The reason why the sunbelt is trending democrat (and the reason why NM, NV, VA, etc vote democrat now) is demographics, not some brilliant strategy by Obama or Clinton to realign the suburban sunbelt. Bernie would have done moderately worse than Hillary in the suburbs and better in WWC areas, likely giving him a narrow victory over Trump in WI, MI, and maybe even PA. If anything, Bernie wouldn't have caused a realignment, but rather he'd have prevented Trump from doing so. Together, Trump and Hillary accelerated trends that were already visible in places like Iowa in 2014.
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