Bad data

Turns out most of the narrative โ€” unsurprisingly โ€” presented by the mainstream media about who votes for Sanders is wrong or at least highly misleading.

If you look at race it seems Clinton owns the โ€œblack vote.โ€ But Jeff Stein writes, โ€œseveral polls have put Sanders ahead of Clinton among young African-Americans; in the Reuters polling data, for instance, Sanders beats Clinton by 25 points among black voters aged 18 to 29.โ€

I bolded that last line because Iโ€™m very tired of being told that Sanders is the candidate of privileged white people.

The media narrative was designed to mislead. Is it ever any other way? I expect there are things about Clinton that are similar, though not to the same extent since she is the establishmentโ€™s anointed candidate.

Ugh, why am I posting about this again? Trumpโ€™s got this one in the bag anyway, because of the undemocratic Electoral College and because misplaced 90s nostalgia wonโ€™t be able to put Clinton over the top.

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