"In Nearly Every Blue, Purple, and Light-Red State, Bernie Sanders Polls Better Against Trump..."

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6. i suspect, by now, "the public at large" thinks they know at least something about who he is

really, you'd have to be intentionally not paying attention to not know a little by now.

i've seen rightwingers openly calling him a communist, so they clearly have at least some ideas about him; they're probably still skittish about opening up on him for being a Jew.

initially, the Sanders supporters were claiming his super-low numbers (back in the 3-5% days) were due to people not knowing about him or his positions, and they predicted his numbers would rise when people figured it out. well, they've risen. significantly.

he's not polling 3-5% anymore. i haven't seen any recent name recognition polling (there was plenty of it, back about 3-4 months), and my takeaway from that is it's a settled issue -- people basically know who he is and what he's doing. he's not "Candidate X" anymore.

you'd be correct to say Hillary is a known quantity to voters -- and based on the polls i've seen of "the public at large", they don't like her much and they don't trust her. going by the numbers i've seen, there is a simpler explanation for the preliminary ge poll numbers being as they are: general election voters would rather vote for Sanders than Clinton.

the "the public doesn't know about Bernie yet" line becomes less plausible every day.