A Fascinating Look at the Democratic Primary Electorate

[leftcoastmountains]

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-fascinating-look-at-the-democratic-primary-electorate

[hedda_foil]

1. Wow! Take a look at these pie charts..

This deserves more eyeballs.

As I said, this is not the public at large but TPM readers. The samples of Sanders, Clinton, and Biden each have at least 2300 qualified respondents. The number of respondents for President Obama is 1459. All were taken in the second half of this week. And again, what interests me about these numbers is that it is not the population at large or even Democrats at large: it's a center-left demographics which rates very high on 'influence' markers. They follow news closely; they converse with people in their social sets about politics frequently, online and off; and they're disproportionately in professional positions of influence.

Now, there are various things you can draw from these numbers. But the big thing that just jumps right out at me at least is how basically similar attitudes are toward Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders and how different they are from Clinton and Biden.

Overall favorability ranges from a high of 84% for Obama to 68.4% for Clinton. Unsurprisingly these people are all thought pretty highly of by a generally center-left readership. But the difference in intensity of affinity is huge, as Donald Trump might say.