Whose Supporters Like Cheap Flights, 'The Daily Show' and Fracking?

[portlander23]

Whose Supporters Like Cheap Flights, 'The Daily Show' and Fracking?
OCTOBER 19, 2015
NPR

People who want Sen. Bernie Sanders to be the Democratic presidential nominee are twice as likely to book travel reservations on Kayak or take that flight on budget carrier Spirit Airlines as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton supporters.

They're also twice as likely to tune into The Daily Show.

When it comes to policy, Clinton supporters are much more inclined to be satisfied with the current corporate tax rate. About 21 percent of Clinton backers say the current rate is appropriate, while only 1 percent of Sanders backers feel that way. About 33 percent of people who prefer Vice President Joe Biden, should he enter the race, as the Democratic nominee are fine with the current corporate tax rate.

Far more Sanders supporters — nearly 7 in 10 — are inclined to oppose the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline than Clinton or Biden backers.

Support for fracking isn't exactly rampant among Biden supporters — just 17 percent told Resonate they back the policy — but that's still a much higher figure than the 12 percent of Clinton supporters or 4 percent of Sanders backers who told the survey they support fracking.

In fact, while just 2 percent of Sanders supporters define themselves as "conservative" in the survey, almost 20 percent of Biden backers see themselves that way. "Blue dog Democrats — I think that's where you see a lot of support [for Biden] coming in," said Horn. "The industrial Democratic belt. These are people who are Democrats because they're pro-union, but otherwise could be social conservatives, could be fiscal conservatives. They're single issue voters sometimes, and that issue is labor politics."

I dunno what all this means, but it's fun collection of questions.

[marym625]

1. it means

Most of us Sanders supporters are broke, lost our jobs because of corporate politics, are sick of the oligarchy and oligarchs, and love John Stewart but are giving Trevor Noah a try.

And, evidently, we like to play with our mashed potatoes

[Motown_Johnny]

2. One thing I think it confirms, the "Volvo Driving" stereotype of Bernie supporters

is clearly bull shit.

Clinton supporters have been arguing that Sander's supporters can afford to support him because they won't get hurt as much if he loses and we get an (R).


The truth is that it is Clinton's supporters who can afford an (R) in the White House much more than those of us who support Sanders.

The donor numbers spell this out pretty clearly too. Hillary gets money from people who can throw $2,700 at her in one check. Bernie gets around thirty or thirty five bucks at a time because that is all most of his donors can spare.