{"id":181953,"date":"2016-02-01T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/01\/interesting-factoid-about-sanders\/"},"modified":"2016-02-01T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T23:57:00","slug":"interesting-factoid-about-sanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/02\/01\/interesting-factoid-about-sanders\/","title":{"rendered":"Interesting Factoid about Sanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you take a look at at previous &#8220;insurgent&#8221; challengers, they tended to get a lot of support from more affluent Democrats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2016\/01\/bernie-sanders-demographics-base-liberals-moderates-iowa-new-hampshire\/\">Not for Sanders<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sanders\u2019s strength with voters making less than $50,000 a year\u200a \u2014\u200a and his relative lack of appeal among voters making above $100,000\u200a \u2014\u200a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2016\/01\/bernie-sanders-democratic-president-primary-new-hampshire-iowa-caucus\/\">sets him apart from Democratic primary challengers<\/a> in years past like Bill Bradley, Howard Dean, and Barack Obama. All these \u201cprogressive\u201d underdogs attracted their strongest support from wealthier voters, while struggling, in relative terms, to win lower-income support. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/31\/upshot\/bernie-sanders-is-making-surprising-gains-with-less-affluent-whites.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&amp;smid=nytcore-iphone-share&amp;_r=1\">Nate Cohn notices the same trend<\/a> in today\u2019s New York Times.)&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/01\/31\/upshot\/bernie-sanders-is-making-surprising-gains-with-less-affluent-whites.html\">this<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Bernie Sanders\u2019s coalition once looked very familiar: He had strong support among well-educated and affluent liberal white voters of the sort who backed Barack Obama, Bill Bradley and Jerry Brown. He struggled among less affluent voters.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">But his coalition has evolved over the last few months. He now fares much better among less affluent whites than Mr. Obama did eight years ago, suggesting he\u2019s attracting a group that traditionally supports more moderate establishment candidates, someone like Hillary Clinton. If confirmed in the voting, it would vindicate his hope of building a progressive coalition based more on class than the coalitions put together by liberal predecessors.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m not surprised that the Democratic establishment hates Sanders.<\/p>\n<p>There is an saying, &#8220;Republicans fear their base, and Democrats hate their base.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To the degree that Sanders talks to the base, and talks about the existential issues surrounding excessive (and undeserved) inequality in our society.<\/p>\n<p>He is talking directly to the base, and they hate him.<\/p>\n<p>It should make interesting time in South Carolina.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you take a look at at previous &#8220;insurgent&#8221; challengers, they tended to get a lot of support from more affluent Democrats. Not for Sanders: Sanders\u2019s strength with voters making less than $50,000 a year\u200a \u2014\u200a and his relative lack of appeal among voters making above $100,000\u200a \u2014\u200a sets him apart from Democratic primary challengers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1003,978,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-politics","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}