Issue polling just isn't very informative. It presents unconstrained choices, while elections present constrained choices.
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Incidentally, Democrats of all ideological stripes make a related error in analyzing general elections.
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Anyway, this is why Bernie's loss hasn't sunk in for the left. They start from a prior that their ideas are the popular ideas, and so when they lose it's a sign that the system failed. They do not view his loss as data showing their ideas were rejected.
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Which is ironic, because if you believe all the talking points about Biden being a weak-ass candidate, then his ability to mop the floor with Bernie should be an even more alarming signal about the popularity of leftist ideas.
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Isn't that kind of the right's problem, too? That's how we ended up with Trump.
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I'm not sure that's a "problem" for the right. Trump won.
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He’s not even a Democrat.
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