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Aquaria

(1,076 posts)
15. Wrong
Wed Mar 18, 2020, 10:40 PM
Mar 2020

BS has an exceptional CAUCUS staff.

When it comes to primaries, not so much. Latinx did NOT increase their vote for BS to any significant degree in Texas, for instance. He barely got 800 more votes in Hidalgo county than he did in 2016, and that increase comes more from population growth than anything else. And Hidalgo county has been a monster of population growth, since the early 1990s.

To further emphasize that his Latinx vote "enthusiasm" is an illusion, BS won only two counties by an outright majority: Sterling and Hansford. Guess how many votes they cast in the D primary? Sterling: 24. Hansford: 23. That's it. In every other county he "won," he didn't get a majority, and in nearly all of them, the combination of Bloomberg + Biden votes swamped his numbers. I know there were a couple of instances where BS did win the county, even if he didn't win the majority. But they were few and far between.

In the vast majority of those he "won," he would have lost if Bloomberg hadn't been on the ballot. And not by a little. By a lot. Even in the fake liberal oasis of Austin, Biden + Bloomberg got more votes than BS: 102,465 to 83,803, and percentage-wise: 45.9% to 37.5%. And that's AUSTIN, where if BS could run away with a county, then Travis would have been it. But he didn't run away with it. He barely won it, thanks to vote splitting. San Antonio/Bexar? Same dang thing, only worse for this claim of a Latinx pivot to BS, because San Antonio/Bexar has a far--FAR--higher Hispanic population than Austin. Their numbers? Biden + Bloomberg: 74594, 43.8%, and BS: 56793, 33.2%

In every border or heavily Hispanic county that BS "won," this Biden + Bloomberg > BS plays out over and over and over again.

The Latinx being BS fans in 2020 is thus so much BULLSHIT.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden

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NV had more candidates. Sanders won 47% this means that more than 50% rejected him question everything Mar 2020 #1
Good analysis. brush Mar 2020 #2
It should be noted that only 34% of caucus goers supported Sanders in the initial vote. W_HAMILTON Mar 2020 #31
Agree. And that last week Sanders won only N. Dakota and Northern Mariana question everything Mar 2020 #32
Not all have been so ready to forgive and forget the pre DACA Obama border policy tirebiter Mar 2020 #3
CA and NV kurtcagle Mar 2020 #4
That's what I was thinking.. ".. before the bounce.." Cha Mar 2020 #8
Nevada was a caucus state. That makes a huge difference. StevieM Mar 2020 #5
Good break down. brush Mar 2020 #7
Bernie spent a great deal of time in Nevada...over the last four years. Demsrule86 Mar 2020 #6
Sanders had a superb Latinx NV campaign staff, Biden had next to nothing when it came to the same Celerity Mar 2020 #9
Wrong Aquaria Mar 2020 #15
I was only speaking of NV, so the Texas part is a non sequitur Celerity Mar 2020 #18
How is Austin a Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #24
+100000000 Celerity Mar 2020 #29
Thanks for the contribution. I'll be reading more and certainly Hortensis Mar 2020 #30
Why does Idaho vote so differently from Washington and Montana? Aquaria Mar 2020 #10
Thanks for this. brush Mar 2020 #12
Oh, and Latin voters haven't voted all that different Aquaria Mar 2020 #14
NV is a caucus state. If the last 4 years have taught us nothing else GulfCoast66 Mar 2020 #11
I some Sanders Turin_C3PO Mar 2020 #26
Ooh...ooh...I know BidenBacker Mar 2020 #13
Hispanics favoring BS is an illusion Aquaria Mar 2020 #16
Agreed BidenBacker Mar 2020 #17
They see the same news that we Anglos see every day. comradebillyboy Mar 2020 #19
I think this is a simple answer BGBD Mar 2020 #20
Data for Progress BidenBacker Mar 2020 #21
I'm sure BGBD Mar 2020 #23
Primary vs Caucus. Codeine Mar 2020 #22
AZ is the most conservative of the 3 states mikelgb Mar 2020 #25
An anecdotal story about my niece. Mike 03 Mar 2020 #27
Biden won Hispanic vote in fl by large amount FloridaBlues Mar 2020 #28
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