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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton unloading: [View all]AZProgressive
(29,711 posts)About 12% of Bernie Sanders primary voters voted for Trump but those disproportionately were self described moderates & conservatives. Most of the liberal voters for Sanders silently voted for Sanders in the primary and later silently voted for Hillary Clinton in the general election -- I was one of those 74% (a similar rate of Hillary Clinton voters that voted for Obama in the general election in 2008)
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-was-helped-by-the-neverhillary-vote-what-does-that-mean-for-his-chances-now/
Then there are the Obama-Trump voters who made up between 6.7 million and 9.2 million of the 2016 electorate.
Vox
A new study reveals the real reason Obama voters switched to Trump
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Clinton suffered her biggest losses in the places where Obama was strongest among white voters. Its not a simple racism story, the New York Timess Nate Cohn wrote on the night of the election. This typically segues into an argument that Trump won by tapping into economic, rather than racial, anxiety anger about trade and the decline of manufacturing, or the fallout from the 2008 Great Recession.
A new study shows that this response isnt as powerful as it may seem. The study, from three political scientists from around the country, takes a statistical look at a large sample of Obama-Trump switchers. It finds that these voters tended to score highly on measures of racial hostility and xenophobia and were not especially likely to be suffering economically.
White voters with racially conservative or anti-immigrant attitudes switched votes to Trump at a higher rate than those with more liberal views on these issues, the papers authors write. We find little evidence that economic dislocation and marginality were significantly related to vote switching in 2016.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/16/17980820/trump-obama-2016-race-racism-class-economy-2018-midterm
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