1. "tiny"? According to Real Clear Politics Aggregation: Warren + Sanders = 34.1%, Biden = 26.8. Or we could put together all Chait cited moderate candidates (Biden, Klobuchar, Bennet et) & get 29.5%https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1172880178273345537 …
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2. Of course, in the real world most people don't break down into consistent left/centrist binaries (Bernie is the 2nd choice of many Biden supporters). But if you add up all the candidates Chait thinks are too left you get a majority of the party!
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3. Seriously, if I add up all the candidates who Chait seems to think of as have gone too far to the left or being to fringe (Sanders, Warren, Harris[!], Buttigieg[!!], Yang, Gabbard, Castro) you get 47.7%. All the Chait-acceptable moderate candidates get 34.6%
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4. To be clear, I'm not saying Harris or Buttigieg are left candidates or have moved too far to the left -- but Chait seems to think so.
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I mean Chait literally starts the piece by saying that virus (twitter) has incapacitated everyone in Democratic leadership except Biden, so assumption is that everyone but Biden is under sway, to some degree, of left.
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