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I'm pretty sure if there were

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 22:49:21 +0000

I'm pretty sure if there were a "ton of Kasich-to-Hillary crossover voters" Hillary would have won Ohio. She lost by 450,000 despite huge GOTV by Beyonce et al in Cleveland & elsewhere.

Comes to mind that Prof.

artappraiser — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 22:45:11 +0000

In reply to The Bernie voters who defected to Trump, explained by a political scientist

Comes to mind that Prof. Schaffner could have saved a lot of time and study by just coming to Dagblog to learn that they switched to Trump after Bernie lost because they were all racists.

There were also a ton of

artappraiser — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 22:42:55 +0000

In reply to The Bernie voters who defected to Trump, explained by a political scientist

There were also a ton of Kasich-to-Hillary crossover voters in 2016.

In general worrying that primary bitterness will hurt in the general election is totally reasonable; but there’s no particular reason to see that as a Bernie-specific worry.
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) February 9, 2020