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90% of Sanders Supporters Back Clinton: Pew Research
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Pew Research Center published some interesting polling results today to coincide with the Democratic National Convention illustrating “Clinton’s March to Nomination.” Their take away is 90 percent of “consistent” supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders now favor Sec. Hillary Clinton over her Republican rival.

But, through their random-digit-dial surveys conducted in English and Spanish, Pew found that 44 percent of Democrats changed their nominee preference during the course of the primaries.

Sanders supporters were almost as fickle in their support of the senator from Vermont. He did slightly better with loyalty from his supporters, but still just twenty percent of primary voters consistently named him as their first choice.

Pew also found the Democratic primary race support for the candidates divided along demographic lines including race, gender, education, and age. The only surprise to those following the news during the primaries is, I think, how evenly split support was in some of the demographic categories.

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