1. Retains non-trivial white rural support. Retains Obama suburban voters but without much expansion.
2. Texas probably never shifts left, but Georgia still does.
3. Bernie probably takes a considerably more civil libertarian approach to COVID than Biden or the average blue state governor did IRL. Concern over working class unemployment would factor more strongly in the Dem COVID message.
We can never prove hypotheticals, but I agree with this. Probably would have won Nova by a slightly larger than Obama 2012 due to undeniable trends, but not dominating like Clinton and Biden.
Texas and Florida suburbs would have been blow out against Democrats. Not sure if he could have competed in Arizona.
If Bernie was the leader of the Democratic party, I would very much doubt that mass school and business closures would have much of thing in the United States. He would have pushed masking and basic covid restrictions obviously.
I found it interesting that pre-covid that remote workers probably leaned to the GOP but now largely a liberal leaning demographic.
I respect Sanders even though I obviously have a large ideological gap between him and I. I voted for Sanders in the 2020 primaries as a FU to the ultra-rich when it was clear Biden was going to win Virginia primary large anyway. I did not like the Berniebros though. They made me want to PUKE. Yes, they were THAT annoying.
