Tender, why do young white people vote so overwhelmingly for Bernie Sanders? The margins are ridiculous. In New Hampshire he won 83% of the vote among people under 30 years old. I mean, I can understand 65% or even 70%, but 83% just doesn’t make sense. And 74% of unmarried men? Doesn’t really seem fair. The only possible explanation is that young people are discriminating against her, right? I guess they must be sexist?
To be serious, your logic seems to be that if there’s a given demographic group that deviates a lot from the rest of the electorate, and you can’t figure out a simple reason for that deviation, then the actual reason for it must be something stupid, like “blind loyalty”.
You do realize that different demographics of voters are different, right? And they’re not different because all the members of that group got together on a conference call and decided where to set their level of support for a candidate? The demographic variation is a consequence of individual members of the demo in question making individual decisions about their own vote. A single black person can only vote for Hillary Clinton once. But if too many of his neighbors also vote for her, then he must be “discriminatory”? That’s absurd.
I mean, look at the language you’re using here:
The points you listed in a) are not warranting a 80-85% support level for her though. I'd have no problem if Blacks split 50-50, or 55-45 or 60-40. OK.
“Not warranting a 80-85% support level for her”? Again, how do you think these demographic numbers come about? The members of the demographic come to a mutual agreement about what fraction of them the candidate “deserves” support from before they go into the voting booth?
