Bernie Sanders.

[Beet]

I'm sensing he has the Big Mo'. He's getting tens of thousands of likes on FB, he has hundreds of thousands of donors, and his reddit sub already has 33,000 users. Except gun control (which doesn't matter enough) there's nothing Hillary can offer to the left that he doesn't offer. How far does he go?

[Beet]

Great bait mate, I rate eight out of eight, haters gon' hate.

Oh sh**t, Bernie Sanders has more likes than Hillary Clinton on Facebook...

1m vs. 807k

It says 410k for me. But given as he's only been in the race for 10 days, still impressive

[Beet]

Great bait mate, I rate eight out of eight, haters gon' hate.

Oh sh**t, Bernie Sanders has more likes than Hillary Clinton on Facebook...

1m vs. 807k

It says 410k for me. But given as he's only been in the race for 10 days, still impressive

Go to US Senator Bernie Sanders.

I don't think his Senate account is comparable because he's probably had it for years. The campaign accounts were launched with their campaigns. Also, liking the campaign account is a more clear endorsement. But it's true that his Senate account may be leeching some of his campaign account's likes.

[Beet]

If we predicted success by Reddit popularity, Ron Paul would be in the 7th year of his presidency.

In 2008, reddit as we know it today did not exist. In July 2012, reddit got 40 million unique visitors. In April 2015, it had 169 million unique visitors.

[Beet]

If we predicted success by Reddit popularity, Ron Paul would be in the 7th year of his presidency.

In 2008, reddit as we know it today did not exist. In July 2012, reddit got 40 million unique visitors. In April 2015, it had 169 million unique visitors.

These are the demographic survey results for the Bernie Sanders subreddit. I doubt the makeup of 2012 Ron Paul supporters was that different.

The problem for Bernie is that young middle-class (white) men only get you so far in a primary.

I'm sure it wasn't. Politics is decided by older, wealthy men with political or financial connections. There is a certain segment of the population which could be called "independent" or "idealistic" or "disaffected" depending on the context. And yes they are disproportionately young, somewhat more male, usually single, and rather poor (I notice nearly a quarter of Sanders supporters have an income under $10K). They are not so much drawn to a particular ideology as they are feeling alienated from the political process, and if they vote, will vote for someone who taps into their discontent, whether it's George Wallace in 1968 or Eugene McCarthy in 1976 or John Anderson in 1980 or Ron Paul in 1988 or Ross Perot in 1992 or the Green or Libertarian parties today.

Under 10,000   112   15.1%
100,000 and above   170   22.9%

[Beet]

The New York Times is starting to notice Sanders' Big Mo, now that it's moved from online to offline.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/politics/challenging-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-gains-momentum-in-iowa.html?_r=0&referrer=

Never mind that I called it three weeks ago, right? "But Beet predicted Palin would be nominated in 2012 so we can discount his anti-conventional wisdom predictions!"

[Beet]

Hey guys, have you seen that poster Beet? His predictions and freak outs are always wrong. He's totally irrational!