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Originally Posted by New Era
Do tell, do tell!!! What are these policy differences that makes either better than Biden? What are these policy differences that would drive Americans to vote either Sanders or Yang, and that would be deemed acceptable by the vast majority of Americans?
I think you're dead wrong, that neither candidate was any good, because they were not appealing to the majority of Americans. Sanders is a socialist. Just lost 55-60% of the electorate.
https://www.usnews.com/news/election...tial-candidate
"But the term ''socialist'' makes American voters squeamish, the poll found. More voters were willing to vote for a Muslim (66%) or an atheist (60%). And ''socialist'' was the only category of candidate for which the percentage of voters willing to cast a vote for such a contender actually went down from the previous survey, in June 2015."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...overcome-that/
"A January Gallup poll found less than half of Americans, 45 percent, said they would vote for a socialist for president, even if they were well qualified and from their own political party. Being a socialist was the least acceptable of 12 traits measured in the poll — 60 percent said they would vote for an atheist, 69 percent for someone who is over age 70, and 93 percent for a woman."
Yang didn't even carry the Asian vote, but he was going to get the whole party to coalesce around him? Come on.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features...ew-yangs-base/
"Morning Consult found Yang at 19 percent among them, behind only Biden (24 percent) and Sanders (22 percent)." |
The majority of democratic voters preferred Biden over Yang in the primaries, that is true.
However, in a hypothetical Yang vs Trump matchup, Yang would perform way better than you think he would. During the primaries, Yang was actually a stronger favourite against Trump than Biden was, according to most betting odds. His appeal to disaffected voters in swing states comes from the fact that his Freedom Dividend would have helped ease the pain of those who lost their jobs to automation in recent years.
Who says Yang wouldn't have brought the party together? Centrist democrats would look at the two choices and, even if they didn't like Yang's proposals, the choice to vote out Trump would be an easy one. Meanwhile, Yang would be stealing a chunk of Republican voters away from Trump, because he offers them something that Biden doesn't.