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islandmkl

(5,275 posts)
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 07:12 PM Mar 2016

instant meme from the Clinton campaign: "CROSSOVER VOTERS will be the reason

for a tighter race than expected...pretty much everywhere..."

it's always nice when every goddam channel somehow gets the same message...makes it so you don't have to channel surf so much...
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GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)
2. I noticed that. I guess if you perpetually sell wishful thinking as fact you need some excuse
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 07:16 PM
Mar 2016

handy for when you are exposed as a propagandizing bullshit artist.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
4. "how dare the people we drummed out of the party try to take it back: don't they
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 07:17 PM
Mar 2016

know they're mere VOTERS?!"

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
7. All day I have seen posts about Clinton voters crossing over.
Tue Mar 15, 2016, 08:31 PM
Mar 2016

Can you imagine if they wouldn't have?

islandmkl

(5,275 posts)
8. 'all day' in your time zone must differ slightly from mine...
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 06:51 AM
Mar 2016

supporters of both HRC and BS were interviewed about switching to vote against Trump...and, all things considered, how many of those interviews (of how many people) were there....

not exactly a valid statistical analysis by any measure...

pampango

(24,692 posts)
9. If Bernie were winning the Democratic vote and Hillary the crossover voters who
Wed Mar 16, 2016, 07:03 AM
Mar 2016

are declared republicans and independents, as a Bernie supporter I would point out that he was winning the party's liberal base while Hillary was winning the 'moderate' crossover vote.

I think Bernie's appeal to crossover voters is real and important but, if the shoe were on the other foot, my view of the significance of the party base voters vs crossover voters would probably be different.

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