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Turns out people really like a candidate who clearly stands up for the middle class and who isn't afraid to say others should pay more taxes and the press should quit replaying the superficial over covering the substantive.
Seems like Bernie attracts an older crowd of latter-day hippies, with grand kids in tow. To what demographic groups does he appeal ?
You pretty much nailed the demo.
The reality based community.
Well hell, that pretty much rules out nearly all party-affiliated voters . . .
Don't punch the hippie – he/she is probably your boss now. Or retired / approaching retirement, with union benefits, time on the hands, faithful to the ideals of the 60s and 70s, and very savvy and experienced in political organizing, having learned from the mistakes of the past. Every progressive group I've been involved in since 2008 has plenty of gray heads volunteering.
As far as what demographics Bernie appeals to:
Older voters, yes. (25% of the crowd according to the author of linked article). Doesn't say who the other 75% were.
But his message echoing Obama's call for two years of free college is resounding with millenials and younger voters.
This Sanders town hall meeting has plenty of oldsters in the audience, but most of the questioners are younger folks.
And Sanders is still polling higher than every Republican candidate, according to Kos blogger gjohnsit, referencing this Q poll.
This more recent PPP poll, with 39% of its respondents under age 34, had Sanders at 20% favorable, 28% unfavorable, and 51% unknown. It isn't that younger people aren't following Sanders – like the rest of the country, they don't know him well.
I'm guessing he doesn't appeal to the top .01% of income earners.
Dismissive, snide, and cynical remarks most welcome…….especially how the top bracket is around $400,000, and all the millionaires/billionaires above that have the best kind of tax surety right now: very few will ask them to pay more for the wealth they are accumulating at record pace.
Here's a shocker — six major European Oil & Gas companies calling for a plan to tax greenhouse emissions:
But of course the Devolutionists (and major GOP members and investors) in the US are not a part of this:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/02/european-oil-carbon-pricing_n_7497016.html?utm_hp_ref=politics