2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Dear Hillary: RED BAIT People Like Me and Lose My Vote In ANY Election [View all]Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Honestly, I just don't get it. Even being desperate doesn't account for this one.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/1/17/1471163/-Red-dawn-More-Iowa-Democratic-caucus-goers-identify-as-socialist-than-capitalist
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A little-noticed data point in the new Selzer & Co. Iowa poll, in fact, shows that 43 percent of likely voters in the Feb. 1 caucuses say they would use the word "socialist" to describe themselves.
And to be very clear, this question was not whether they would vote for a socialist or sympathize with socialism; it's whether they consider themselves socialist.
The 43 percent of likely Iowa Democratic caucus-goers who self-identify as socialist is actually more than the number who identify themselves as capitalist 38 percent.