The Loves of a Certain Kind of Left

[Joseph Tracy]

NOT A SERIOUS POLL OR A SERIOUS ISSUE  (below are the last paragraphs of the article. To me this just looks like dramatic tactical BS from college students pissed about DNC shenanigans against Sanders. Hardly “a certain kind of left”.


Brian Schaffner, a Newhouse professor of civic studies at Tufts University who worked on the Cooperative Congressional Election Study, cautioned that the sample size for the 26% figure in the Emerson poll is small.

Only about 103 people in the poll said they supported Sanders, and its margin of error is 5.2%. Other state-level Emerson polls showed single-digit percentages of Sanders supporters choosing Trump over Warren.

“I wouldn't take their claims that they would vote for Trump over Warren too seriously,” Schaffner told the Washington Examiner. “It is more likely just a way of them signaling to the pollsters who are asking them that they really want Bernie (and not somebody else) to win the nomination.”

> On Apr 28, 2019, at 3:44 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Umm. I thought I sent this earlier....?
> 
> https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bernie-or-bust-the-sanders-supporters-who-will-back-trump-if-their-man-isnt-democratic-nominee <https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/bernie-or-bust-the-sanders-supporters-who-will-back-trump-if-their-man-isnt-democratic-nominee>
> An Emerson College poll <https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/april-national-poll-bernie-takes-lead-for-democratic-nomination-mayor-pete-on-the-move> this month showed 26% of those who support Sanders in the Democratic primaries and caucuses would support Trump over Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., despite their overlapping policy positions.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 2:36 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
> I sent the reference. I can't make you see it.
> 
> David Morris 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 2:33 PM Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net <mailto:brook7 at sover.net>> wrote:
> Can’t find poll yet but in last election "Emerson College predicts <http://www.theecps.com/ <http://www.theecps.com/>> Clinton will win the Electoral College, 323 to 215.”  Not a great source of polling accuracy.
> > On Apr 27, 2019, at 12:50 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com <mailto:mark.kohut at gmail.com>> wrote:
> > 
> > Emerson College Poll is one. Might be another. I have argued w some that that percentage is just a way this early of saying I'm really really for Bernie and I'll prove it w this answer. Spec of course. 
> > And I don't know how the questions were asked. 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Sent from my iPhone
> > 
> >> On Apr 27, 2019, at 11:38 AM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net <mailto:brook7 at sover.net>> wrote:
> >> 
> >> Where is this poll? reference please?
> >>> On Apr 25, 2019, at 12:08 AM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com <mailto:fqmorris at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> A very recent poll of Sanders supporters had 26% saying they'd vote for
> >>> Trump if Bernie isn't the democratic nominee.  Those are the "blow it all
> >>> up" crazy crowd that elected Trump last time, just a different flavor.
> >>> 
> >>> In a related observation, Bernie Sanders is clearly the candidate loved by
> >>> Glenn Greenvalt and Matt Tabbi, elite media pundits who are blind to
> >>> Trump-Russia collusion.  Mueller never said there wasn't collusion. He
> >>> ruled that word-judgement out as legally irrelevant (but not practically
> >>> irrelevant).  Everyone with eyes can see collusion, and a compromised Trump.
> >>> 
> >>> The House needs to call contempt on all that defy House subpoenas. Lock
> >>> Them Up!
> >>> 
> >>> David Morris
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