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Originally Posted by rubecube
I'm not saying he necessarily can, but he has a better chance of doing it than Biden does. The age gap between Biden and Bernie voters is a massive problem for the Democrats:
As to why youth vote in the primary might be down for Bernie? Could be he's not driving them out. Another factor might be the growing number of registered independents depleting the pool to draw from.
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I mentioned this already, but I think it's being lost that Bernie's white blue collar support, especially rural, was basically a 2016 or never proposition. With those voters gone, he needs to rely even more heavily on youth and that just always seems like a losing strategy.
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I think an even bigger problem for the Democrats to consider is, what are they going to do in the future now that the progressive wing of the party has woken up and realized their votes were being taken for granted all these years and that their concerns aren't really a priority for the party?
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But this is an existential problem of the current system. As long as the GOP can count on 40% of the vote, the progressives can't realistically split from the Dems and still be viable in a general. I know it sucks that it can't just all happen and has to be incremental change and small bits at a time, but the alternative is none at all, and more than likely a reversal of progress of the last 50+ years. It's a complicated problem to solve, to say the least.