Bernie Sanders loses like a Republican

[RealAmericanDem]

By Evan Horowitz Globe Staff March 02, 2016

Tuesday’s Massachusetts Democratic primary revealed something surprising about Bernie Sanders: The self-proclaimed democratic socialist lost like a Republican.

Town-by-town, the map of yesterday’s contest looks like a Sanders blowout, a western sea of Bernie victories with a mid-sized archipelago left for Hillary Clinton. The trouble, for Sanders, is that most voters live on those Clinton-friendly eastern islands.

This “Greater Boston vs. everywhere else” breakdown resembles a general election more than a primary, with Sanders playing the part of a Republican candidate like Scott Brown. Exit polls reinforce the idea, showing that Sanders did well with the right wing of Democratic primary voters, including independents and moderates.

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[highprincipleswork]

1. If you think Bernie is more rightwing than Hillary, you have lost your mind.

[Armstead]

2. The writer doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground

He doesn't know jackshit about Massachusetts west of Worcester. It has its hard-ass strongholds, but it also has large swaths of the most progressive areas of the country. Including progressive ruiral areas and small towns.

He also contradicts himself, by comparing the map for Warren and Sanders....and the fact that Obama did well in western Mass in 08.

Rather than "losing like a Republican" he won or narrowly lost in areas where a lot of truly liberal people who either those like both or prefer Bernie but have the pragmatic "mixed feelings but she can win" or "we need a woman president" voters.

And people in western Mass often identify more with New York state than Boston.

[thesquanderer]

3. re: "people in western Mass often identify more with New York state than Boston. "

could bode well for how Sanders will do in NY...

[Armstead]

5. New York is like its own country

It's part New York and suburbs, part New England, part Montana, part Rust Belt and Midwest and little bit of Canada mixed in for good measure.

[Lizzie Poppet]

4. A great demonstration of how some correlations are absolutely meaningless.

So thanks for that.

Hillary is the "Republican" in this primary, in case you hadn't noticed.