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Don't you think that more moderate Democrats would vote for any Republican candidate if Bernie would the primaries? Trump may be an assholes, but at he's not ad
by golergka 9y ago
Don't you think that more moderate Democrats would vote for any Republican candidate if Bernie would the primaries? Trump may be an assholes, but at he's not advocating any radical economical policies that a LOT of US voters completely disagree with.
(Please note that this comment had no value judgements on any policies).
- dragonwriter 9y ago> Don't you think that more moderate Democrats would vote for any Republican candidate if Bernie would the primaries? No, and while Clinton supporters in the primary frequently made this electability argument, head-to-head polling consistently showed Sanders better than Clinton against Trump. This, I know, contradicts the naive idea that candidate policy positions and voter policy preferences can be nearly reduced to a simple left-right spectrum (or even a multidimensional one) and voting maps to “which candidates policy position is closest to the voters preferred policy position”, but that model is, intuitively attractive as it might be, completely wrong. For one thing character issues like perceived trustworthiness make a big difference.
- s73ver_ 9y agoI can't really see that. Even a moderate Democrat, it would be a pretty big stretch to push them toward Trump, I believe. I could, however, see many people like that staying home.