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Originally posted by Radiance
1. Younger women who wouldn't mind voting for Clinton. You can't argue that the base is divided when most of the voters would vote for either candidate.
2. 2008 was amazing, but that doesn't change the fact that Bernie isn't bringing in the required turnouts to justify his 'political revolution'. Turn-out for voters under 25 was incredibly low in SC. His message is simply not resonating as much as you'd like.
3. Bernie is too far to the left to bring in MODERATE independents. Those are the ones that win elections.
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1. You are going off of assumption. A lot of younger voters HATE Hillary.
2. SC is a conservative state. Bernie was NEVER going to win there. Bernie's only been getting mainstream attention for about 5 months now, The fact he's managed to climb this much, this fast is incredible and shows that his message is resonating. Most of the black voters who voted today admitted they had no idea who Bernie was. Once most people figure him out, they tend to gravitate towards him. Even some people prefer his message over Hillary but vote for Hilary because they think she's more electable. Read exit polls. And not just the ones from South Carolina. That's an outlier so far.
3. The whole Wall Street discussion, etc has not helped her within her own base. Even she has admitted that she has a problem with her honest and trustworthy ratings as well as her problems with younger voters. This is not a made up rhetoric. And the whole thing about him not attracting moderate independents is going off of assumption as well.
