Miscellaneous
Washington Post 4 Op-Eds since Tuesday attacking Bernie – owned by Jeff BezosAmazon - $11B in earnings, $0 in taxes https://www.vox.com/2019/2/20/18231742/amazon-federal-taxes-zero-corporate-income528 – “Never Hillary” Article claims 25% of Bernie’s voters merely voted against Hillary.Notes that these voted against her twice in primary and general (or didn’t vote in gen) https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/bernie-sanders-was-helped-by-the-neverhillary-vote-what-does-that-mean-for-his-chances-now/“Roughly one-quarter of Sanders’s support in Democratic primaries and caucuses in 2016 came from #NeverHillary voters: people who didn’t vote for Clinton in the 2016 general election and who had no intention of doing so. (The #NeverHillary label is a little snarky, but it’s also quite literal: These are people who never voted for Clinton despite being given two opportunities to do so, in the primary and the general election.)”Let me explain why that happened: Debbie Wasserman ShultzHillary’s racism assault on Bernie (despite his pacificism towards her “damn emails”)Hillary’s “Bernie Bros” assault on Bernie (Russian Bots) https://www.vox.com/2019/2/20/18231742/amazon-federal-taxes-zero-corporate-incomeChris Cilliza’s argumentsDemocrat field is getting fullCrowded fields favor outlier candidates https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/everyones-running-and-that-could-be-dangerous-for-the-democrats/Democrat Demographics are Changing According to Quinnipiac in December: https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2591African Americans (55-26) and Latinos (52-26) like Bernie, Young people really like Sanders (57-29), Women like Bernie (46-38) Democrats like Sanders (74-13) but he’s slightly underwater (43-45) with whites, faring especially poorly with white men (40-51) and working-class whites (38-44).QOTD – Chuck Todd on Meet The Press tells it like it is