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In another poll from a crucial state, California, conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, 39% of Latinos in California said they prefer Sanders, compared to 21% for Biden and 5% for Warren. (Photo: Mark Makela / Stringer/ Getty Images)
Bernie Sanders Has More Diverse Support Than You Think
"While there’s no one candidate that’s won the hearts and minds of all women voters, it’s Bernie Sanders who has made the most progress."
Nov 11, 2019
Suburban women, as Nicole Goodkind writes in Fortune, "[were] crucial to President Donald Trump's election in 2016 and will be equally crucial to his reelection campaign next year." Recent polling and actual election results, however, show Trump cannot take them for granted, and the same can be said for more centrist Democrats.
Goodkind is referring to data released from the Federal Election Commission and analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics that reveals women are getting involved in elections earlier than in previous cycles. Fortune reports, "More than 1 million [women] have already donated $131 million itemized to presidential candidates."
And while there's no one candidate that's won the hearts and minds of all women voters, it's Bernie Sanders who has made the most progress.
"Of all the potential 2020 candidates," Goodkind writes, "Sanders has taken in the most money from women, raising about $17.1 million in itemized contributions, or 40% of his total funds."
Many of those women are from the suburbs, the same ones Trump needs to win. Sanders received "over $13 million in small-dollar donations from nearly 280,000 suburban women. Combining small- and large-dollar donations, Sanders earned more than any other presidential candidate amongst suburban women with a total of $15 million from small and large donors alike."
These numbers challenge the prevailing wisdom that Democrats must be aggressively moderate to win elections, a position that gained traction last week following Democratic state-level wins in Kentucky, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., told The Hill on Friday that candidates in his state won because they "ran on more moderate issues."
He added that candidates "had very much followed in the traditional Virginia Democratic model of we're going to give you responsible government, it's going to be fiscally responsible."
"I happen to believe that America is a center-right country and that people want us to work across the aisle, and what they're most interested in is problem solving rather than rhetoric," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who endorsed Joe Biden, explained to The Hill.
Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist and consultant, isn't so sure. "This is bad news for Biden, it shows he's got a problem with the female vote," he told Fortune, regarding the new data about suburban women. "And when you look at the polls, women are significantly more likely to be voting for [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren or Sanders than Biden."
Suburban women aren't the only counterintuitive demographic for a candidate whose supporters are often referred to as "Bernie Bros" and assumed to be young, leftist white men. In addition to Fortune's reporting, Foreign Policy examined political contributions from U.S. national security agency staff, also using data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Per Foreign Policy:
When combining contribution amounts together, Sanders is the biggest beneficiary of national security support, followed by [Mayor Pete] Buttigieg and Warren. Democratic front-runner Biden and President Donald Trump trail behind those candidates, ranking no higher than third for any one department.
When broken down by sector of government, Buttigieg had the highest support from the State Department and Sanders from the military.
Sanders, The New York Times reported this weekend, "has collected more money from Latino voters than any other candidate in the Democratic field, raising three times as much from the group as Barack Obama did in 2008."
According to a set of new surveys from The New York Times and Siena College, the Vermont senator is attracting "28% of the Democratic primary vote in six swing states."
In another poll from a crucial state, California, conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, 39% of Latinos in California said they prefer Sanders, compared to 21% for Biden and 5% for Warren.
Anthony Mercado, a 48-year-old maintenance worker, explained Sanders' appeal to Latinos to The New York Times: "We're a community of struggle, and this is a man who knows struggle.. .. Latinos have been promised things and then the winds change. But he's been saying the same things ever since he started."
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Ilana Novick
Ilana Novick is a contributing writer to the PolicyShop blog at Demos,a progressive think tank based in New York City.
Suburban women, as Nicole Goodkind writes in Fortune, "[were] crucial to President Donald Trump's election in 2016 and will be equally crucial to his reelection campaign next year." Recent polling and actual election results, however, show Trump cannot take them for granted, and the same can be said for more centrist Democrats.
Goodkind is referring to data released from the Federal Election Commission and analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics that reveals women are getting involved in elections earlier than in previous cycles. Fortune reports, "More than 1 million [women] have already donated $131 million itemized to presidential candidates."
And while there's no one candidate that's won the hearts and minds of all women voters, it's Bernie Sanders who has made the most progress.
"Of all the potential 2020 candidates," Goodkind writes, "Sanders has taken in the most money from women, raising about $17.1 million in itemized contributions, or 40% of his total funds."
Many of those women are from the suburbs, the same ones Trump needs to win. Sanders received "over $13 million in small-dollar donations from nearly 280,000 suburban women. Combining small- and large-dollar donations, Sanders earned more than any other presidential candidate amongst suburban women with a total of $15 million from small and large donors alike."
These numbers challenge the prevailing wisdom that Democrats must be aggressively moderate to win elections, a position that gained traction last week following Democratic state-level wins in Kentucky, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., told The Hill on Friday that candidates in his state won because they "ran on more moderate issues."
He added that candidates "had very much followed in the traditional Virginia Democratic model of we're going to give you responsible government, it's going to be fiscally responsible."
"I happen to believe that America is a center-right country and that people want us to work across the aisle, and what they're most interested in is problem solving rather than rhetoric," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who endorsed Joe Biden, explained to The Hill.
Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist and consultant, isn't so sure. "This is bad news for Biden, it shows he's got a problem with the female vote," he told Fortune, regarding the new data about suburban women. "And when you look at the polls, women are significantly more likely to be voting for [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren or Sanders than Biden."
Suburban women aren't the only counterintuitive demographic for a candidate whose supporters are often referred to as "Bernie Bros" and assumed to be young, leftist white men. In addition to Fortune's reporting, Foreign Policy examined political contributions from U.S. national security agency staff, also using data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Per Foreign Policy:
When combining contribution amounts together, Sanders is the biggest beneficiary of national security support, followed by [Mayor Pete] Buttigieg and Warren. Democratic front-runner Biden and President Donald Trump trail behind those candidates, ranking no higher than third for any one department.
When broken down by sector of government, Buttigieg had the highest support from the State Department and Sanders from the military.
Sanders, The New York Times reported this weekend, "has collected more money from Latino voters than any other candidate in the Democratic field, raising three times as much from the group as Barack Obama did in 2008."
According to a set of new surveys from The New York Times and Siena College, the Vermont senator is attracting "28% of the Democratic primary vote in six swing states."
In another poll from a crucial state, California, conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, 39% of Latinos in California said they prefer Sanders, compared to 21% for Biden and 5% for Warren.
Anthony Mercado, a 48-year-old maintenance worker, explained Sanders' appeal to Latinos to The New York Times: "We're a community of struggle, and this is a man who knows struggle.. .. Latinos have been promised things and then the winds change. But he's been saying the same things ever since he started."
Ilana Novick
Ilana Novick is a contributing writer to the PolicyShop blog at Demos,a progressive think tank based in New York City.
Suburban women, as Nicole Goodkind writes in Fortune, "[were] crucial to President Donald Trump's election in 2016 and will be equally crucial to his reelection campaign next year." Recent polling and actual election results, however, show Trump cannot take them for granted, and the same can be said for more centrist Democrats.
Goodkind is referring to data released from the Federal Election Commission and analyzed by the Center for Responsive Politics that reveals women are getting involved in elections earlier than in previous cycles. Fortune reports, "More than 1 million [women] have already donated $131 million itemized to presidential candidates."
And while there's no one candidate that's won the hearts and minds of all women voters, it's Bernie Sanders who has made the most progress.
"Of all the potential 2020 candidates," Goodkind writes, "Sanders has taken in the most money from women, raising about $17.1 million in itemized contributions, or 40% of his total funds."
Many of those women are from the suburbs, the same ones Trump needs to win. Sanders received "over $13 million in small-dollar donations from nearly 280,000 suburban women. Combining small- and large-dollar donations, Sanders earned more than any other presidential candidate amongst suburban women with a total of $15 million from small and large donors alike."
These numbers challenge the prevailing wisdom that Democrats must be aggressively moderate to win elections, a position that gained traction last week following Democratic state-level wins in Kentucky, Virginia and Pennsylvania. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., told The Hill on Friday that candidates in his state won because they "ran on more moderate issues."
He added that candidates "had very much followed in the traditional Virginia Democratic model of we're going to give you responsible government, it's going to be fiscally responsible."
"I happen to believe that America is a center-right country and that people want us to work across the aisle, and what they're most interested in is problem solving rather than rhetoric," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who endorsed Joe Biden, explained to The Hill.
Brad Bannon, a Democratic strategist and consultant, isn't so sure. "This is bad news for Biden, it shows he's got a problem with the female vote," he told Fortune, regarding the new data about suburban women. "And when you look at the polls, women are significantly more likely to be voting for [Sen. Elizabeth] Warren or Sanders than Biden."
Suburban women aren't the only counterintuitive demographic for a candidate whose supporters are often referred to as "Bernie Bros" and assumed to be young, leftist white men. In addition to Fortune's reporting, Foreign Policy examined political contributions from U.S. national security agency staff, also using data from the Center for Responsive Politics. Per Foreign Policy:
When combining contribution amounts together, Sanders is the biggest beneficiary of national security support, followed by [Mayor Pete] Buttigieg and Warren. Democratic front-runner Biden and President Donald Trump trail behind those candidates, ranking no higher than third for any one department.
When broken down by sector of government, Buttigieg had the highest support from the State Department and Sanders from the military.
Sanders, The New York Times reported this weekend, "has collected more money from Latino voters than any other candidate in the Democratic field, raising three times as much from the group as Barack Obama did in 2008."
According to a set of new surveys from The New York Times and Siena College, the Vermont senator is attracting "28% of the Democratic primary vote in six swing states."
In another poll from a crucial state, California, conducted by the Public Policy Institute of California, 39% of Latinos in California said they prefer Sanders, compared to 21% for Biden and 5% for Warren.
Anthony Mercado, a 48-year-old maintenance worker, explained Sanders' appeal to Latinos to The New York Times: "We're a community of struggle, and this is a man who knows struggle.. .. Latinos have been promised things and then the winds change. But he's been saying the same things ever since he started."
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