Federalist: After almost two weeks of critical media coverage of Joe Biden’s handsy history, poll after poll indicates most Democrats do not care. The latest Quinnipiac poll—of California, no less—has the yet-to-announce Biden easily leading Bernie Sanders and favorite daughter Kamala Harris. This poll also has Harris performing better among white liberals than nonwhite voters.
These findings are mostly news to the progressive elites at the top of Democratic politics and the establishment media. The data suggesting the Democratic Party is an upstairs/downstairs coalition in which a small faction of disproportionately white progressives dominate a more diverse rank-and-file has been piling up in studies by More in Common, Pew, and Gallup. In recent days, some in the media have finally begun to notice.
At The New York Times, resident propellerheads Nate Cohn and Kevin Quealy find that “[t]oday’s Democratic Party is increasingly perceived as dominated by its ‘woke’ left wing. But the views of Democrats on social media often bear little resemblance to those of the wider Democratic electorate.” They add: “The outspoken group of Democratic-leaning voters on social media is outnumbered, roughly 2 to 1, by the more moderate, more diverse and less educated group of Democrats who typically don’t post political content online.”
Cohn and Quealy report that approximately a quarter of Democrats are progressive ideologues; only a tenth might identify as democratic socialists. “The rest of the party is easy to miss,” they write. “Not only is it less active on social media, but it is also under-represented in the well-educated, urban enclaves where journalists roam.”
Similarly, Third Way—a group representing centrist Democrats—has released a poll finding a similar chasm between the woke mob on social media and other Democrats: “On the question of whether Democrats want a candidate who will appeal to a broad range of voters or move left to energize progressives and liberals, voters who do not post on Twitter prefer broad appeal by 57 points, while active Tweeters prefer broad appeal by a much narrower 27 points.”
CNN data guru Harry Enten observes, contra the conventional wisdom, moderates and conservatives still make up roughly half of Democratic voters, while only 19 to 25 percent consider themselves “very liberal.” Moreover, “Millennials and Generation Z voters (roughly those younger than 40)… made up just about 29% of all Democratic voters in the 2018 midterm, per Catalist [a firm that maintains a voter database for Democratic and progressive causes].” Voters over fifty constituted 56 percent of Democratic voters in 2018. more here
moderate and conservative Democrats better get their act together or they may not have a candidate for office who could win the majority of democrats let alone independents.
Hey man, the leader is Dr.Evil himself: george soros.
What’s he supposed to notice? He’s doing great!
Crazy is relevant. To the progressive base their politicians are what middle America should admire. They fit right in among their followers and are what the ambitious among them aspire to. You can thank the public education system for that.
Any political party that allows someone who isn’t even a member (Bernie Sanders) to run twice for the nomination while turning it away from its real supporters has a death wish. I hope it is fulfilled this time.
Not as long as they are called the, ‘Democratic’ Party.
‘Democratic’ makes the party sound pro-democracy.
Nothing about them is ‘democratic’.
They are; The Democrat Party or, more truthfully, The Socialist Democrat Party, or The Communist Democrat Party.
They’re nuttier than squirrel shit!!
HAVE YOU NOTICED THE RHETORIC FROM THE JUG-EARED SNAKE OIL DUDE LATELY?? HE WANTS OFF THE HOOK!!
HEY OBAMA, YOU LEFT US WITH AN 8 YEAR SHIT SANDWICH – YOU SHOULD REPENT AS THE LORD WILL DEAL YOU THE HAND OF SEVERE JUSTICE…YOUR MISSION AS THE DEVIL’S ADVOCATE IS FINISHED….
THE GOOD NEWS FOR US CONSERVATIVES IS THAT THE BLACK MESSIAH GAVE US TRUMP AND TORE DOWN THE DNC!!
When there is no connection between the various mental categories that compose life cognitive dissonance is self evident. Deeds and results of deeds can not be allowed to influence the information within any learned category.
The democrats gave bill a pass (having sex in the whitehouse with a subordinate), hell! even lionized the creep! The party has members who consider sex with minors okay. They embrace drug culture. embrace the sanctuary of illegal invaders in order to boost their representation as well as their federal largess……. and and and you are appalled that hands-on Joe is getting a pass??? Really?
“Speaking the truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act.” Geo. Orwell
Nuttier than squirrel poop and more confused than a mood ring on a paranoid, bi-polar, schizophrenic chameleon trapped in a bag of Skittles!
This may be why 1/3 of attendees at Trumps rally a few weeks ago in MI were Democrats. The parties are becoming irrelevant. I haven’t considered myself a republican since 2013 when it became obvious they do not support conservative values and were never going to defund let alone repeal Obamacare, Now Democrats are in the same boat realizing their party doesn’t support their values, Establishment globalists vs the rest of us and then you have the insane 30% of leftists loons. Hence enter the Trump era of nationalists/populists.
Idolatry.
Simple idolatry.
The “leader” (English word for Fuhrer) is above reproach.
Alexander, Caesar, Khan, Tamerlane, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Lincoln, Wilson, Roosevelt, Clinton, Obola – they replace God in the feverish frenzy of adulation.
He assumes a celestial presence over the vast unwashed multitude.
The ignorant worship him while the clever exploit him at the expense of the worshipful.
And now, at this point in time (or History) when ignorance is lauded, duplicity rewarded, perversion extolled, and fecklessness is perceived as strength – after a century of mal-education, there are many (a virtual pantheon) lying hypocrites to worship – and the ignorant will worship them all – until one rises above the others, as a great turd (or knot of grease) will rise to the top of the cesspool.
izlamo delenda est …
…well, in Biden’s case, it’s not exactly “news” that he’s handsy – we’ve ALL seen him publcly fondle other men’s wives in FRONT of them live on TV, along with enough children to make Michael Jackson’s ghost envious – so it’s no more surprising than a revelation that Bill cheated on Hillary would be. There’s no reason to expect it to move the needle NOW, when it didn’t THEN…
…and Dems are the party of pervs anyway. They promise to legitimize everyone’s sexual sins, so “like” is not gonna be bothered by “like”…
God I love you guys!
The comments here lock one into constant monitoring (lurking?) and looking for more like an addict seeking his next fix.
The whole will never be diminished by the comings and goings of single players who will be added or subtracted over time and Mr. Big and Mary Jane will rise to their tasks to herd the felines here.