How much of Bernie's support is coming from right wingers wanting an easier candidate to defeat?

[Yavin4]

Much of Bernie's support is coming from so-called Independents. How many of them are voting for Bernie because they think that he is the easier candidate to defeat in the general election? See Sen. McCaskill's strategy with Todd Aiken in the MO senate race of 2012.

[morningfog]

1. Nil.

They have a hotly contested primary are not wasting their vote.

[Scuba]

17. There's probably a few, and are they ever in for a surprise.

[lagomorph777]

26. If they can read polls, nil.

It's obvious from the polls that Bernie is by far the more difficult candidate to beat in the General Election.

[upaloopa]

2. I think we won't know until they write the history of this election years from now.

[ibegurpard]

3. lol

This is the stupidest notion out there. People really don't like Hillary and they really do like Bernie.

[salinsky]

15. If that is the case ...

... why does Hillary have a couple million more votes than Bernie?

Inquiring minds want to know ...

[Politicalboi]

22. That's going to change soon

And now we have the Panama Papers with the Clinton Foundation up to their assholes in it. Don't worry, Bernie will beat her.

[salinsky]

23. I'm not "worried" ...

... if Hillary loses for some reason (spoiler alert; she won't), I'll happily vote for Bernie.

I'm Democrat like that.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

31. because the dnc changed the rules so her strong states would vote first

After she lost in 2008 they rearranged the states so she would appear inevitable, but now it has begun to backfire.

[lastone]

38. ^^^^ Yes, they have been actively working to get Hillary elected with any/all means possible.

The "New Third Way Southern Strategy" was designed to provide her a comfortable delegate lead as early as possible and the south is the only place where this is more assured than not. I believe it was designed to push voters into the she's inevitable camp and discourage any other candidate or supporters of an other than HRC candidate as early in the primary as possible. Similar but not as nefarious as the republican redistricting crap they are repeatedly shot down in court for, similar but different in effect at having states "called" early in the day (night) for a candidate based on the small sample sizes we've see in some states. When one hears the election has been called and is still waiting in lice to vote, perhaps they head home as they do not think their votes will even be counted. When the D candidate acts like a lite R we should all be horrified, the DNC and HRC camp have been using the same tactics in this primary.

[grntuscarora]

4. How much of HRC's is from Independents

looking to her to be the Republican party unifier?

Probably not many, but it's as likely as your scenario.

[lagomorph777]

33. Some TV pundits say Obama's critiques of Trump...

...are intended to get Trump's base out, so he will be the nominee - and destroy the GOP.

[imagine2015]

5. If they wanted an easier candidate to defeat they would be voting for Hillary!

Bernie does much better than Hillary against all of the potential Republican candidates for President.

[riversedge]

6. I found many of them in WI while phone banking and canvassing.

[WDIM]

7. Zero Clinton would be easier to beat.

Voting against Clinton motivates the Repug base like no other and Democratic base will be unenthusiastic and low turn out for Clinton.

[awake]

8. A hell of a lot less than right wingers voting for Hillary

I am sure she is counting on all of her Republican friends on Wall Street to vote for her oh thats right NY is a closed Primary.

[GeorgiaPeanuts]

9. Is this the type of fanfic Hillarians are into?

How dare people like Bernie Sanders the candidate, it must be a big ruse to cheat democrats out of nominating the weathervane.

[Punkingal]

10. None.

[ViseGrip]

11. Oh dear gawd...Hillary is the easier one to beat by all numbers.

Honesty?
Trustworthiness?
Likability?
Dislike?

All her negatives are high. That is the easiest one to beat. Bernie's record is stellar!

[nichomachus]

14. Trump would make mincemeat out of Hillary

By the time he was finished with her, even Bill wouldn't vote for her.

Trump is a bareknuckles campaigner and all Hillary has is focus group doublespeak.

[Schema Thing]

12. A years worth of polling tells people with two or more brain cells that Bernie is much tougher

to beat than Hillary, for Republicans.

Common sense tells you that as well.

[earthside]

13. Probably about zero.

I know a lot of right-wingers and Tea Partiers.

Some might believe Sen. Sanders would be easier to beat than Clinton, but never in a million years would they vote for a socialist ... even for tactical purposes.

Besides, I'm not hearing from my right-wing acquaintances that they think Sanders will be easier to beat than Clinton. They can go on for hours about how corrupt, deceitful and dishonest is Hillary -- they are aching for a chance to vote against her.

Clinton will be easier for the Repuglicans to defeat, anyway -- she is crooked, in my opinion, and highly scandal prone; her arrogance and smugness makes her extraordinarily dislikable. If Democrats want a much better chance at keeping the White House, they will abandon this 'HER' mirage and nominate Sen. Sanders.

[Marr]

16. This is like right-wingers shouting about voter fraud.

It might make you feel better, but I don't think it's a factor.

[grossproffit]

20. Don't "think" doesn't disprove it. There's only one way to ever find out.

[Marr]

29. You're the one making the claim.

Your question assumes that Republican infiltrators are a factor. Unless there's some data that supports your claim, it's just a conspiracy theory.

[grossproffit]

18. Quite a bit considering some of the posts on this forum.

Many are directly from the right wings playbook.

[imagine2015]

19. Hillary might do as well as Barry Goldwater did in 1964. She can tell you all about that campaign!

LOL

[Politicalboi]

21. They would vote for Hillary

She speaks to them. She speaks MONEY. And she would be easier to defeat in November. We all know that.

[grossproffit]

24. Many of us know that Bernie would be like a deer caught in the headlights.

[PufPuf23]

25. Very little, likely none, from GOP or ultra / tea party right.

Support for Sanders is from the left wing / New Deal Democrats segment of the Democratic Party and from Independents that have left or at least favored the Democratic Party.

It is delusional to think otherwise.

Do you know in your personal life or in the public sphere a single right winger championing Sanders?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

27. none. they are too busy with their own circus

[basselope]

28. Zip. Zero. Zilch.

[MariaThinks]

30. do you think there are rightwingers pretending to be bernie supporters on political boards?

some of the arguments in favor of Bernie and against Hillary are not progressive at all.

[Kalidurga]

32. If this is all you got and it appears that this is all you got

Hillary's campaign is in deep trouble.

[Bluenorthwest]

34. How much of Hillary's support comes from Reagan loving reactionaries?

Hillary was pandering to someone with her bullshit lies about Reagan being an AIDS hero and LGBT not doing a thing to help themselves. Who was she reaching out to with that crap? You defended that horrific and hugely ignorant rhetoric.

[Jefferson23]

35. He's not easier to defeat and Hillary is not now nor has she ever been a progressive.

The hawk on foreign policy and her money from WS..woohoo.

Such an inspiring candidate who has trustworthy ratings so low
one has to wonder why anyone is voting for her in the primary.

[immoderate]

36. Bernie is attracting ex-patriot democrats back from the vast wasteland to the left...

of the Democratic Party. Anybody more liberal than Richard Nixon has no representation in our government. Now at least there's Bernie who at minimum is a New Dealer.

--imm

[Faux pas]

37. Scoffing

and lol and

[JackRiddler]

39. Approximately .03%

This is almost as much a myth as individual "voter fraud."

[Teamster Jeff]

40. 42

[ROFF]

41. The NRA

would like to see both candidates in the GE support them. Sure win.

[nadinbrzezinski]

42. Fits the "new" strategy

did you get that from Correct the Record, or just the TP fax?