I don’t trust the credibility of those who continue to say that support from blacks and other people of color is low for Sanders. First of all, let’s take a look at Nate Silver (that’s linked above).
He also made this following bold claim earlier this month back on August 11th with his headline:
The Bernie Sanders Surge Appears To Be Over - link
Oh, really?
Um, this is all national polls as of literally yesterday:
Does this look like the death of Sanders’ steady climb and Hillary’s steady decline to you? Me neither. Also, please see below my response in this post to @lgoldberg where 5 days later a major, mainstream, national poll also shows that Sanders is continuing to make a steady, dramatic climb as of August 16th.
So, what else are the corporate media, pundits and establishment bean counters like Nate Silver getting drastically wrong?
Yeah, Nate Silver’s credibility surge appears to be over. This mainstream, national poll came about 5 days later after he made that bold claim.
Now, here’s my chart that shows where Sanders can be in that poll in a little over a month later IF the trend continues:
https://cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/boingboing/optimized/3X/f/0/f0debd66feac206ca134a8836413d5b0915e8d4e_1_644x500.jpg
(Let’s also keep in mind that these polls results are skewed against Sanders due to the preponderance of cell phone users within his demographic among other factors)
And, here’s why I think some people react so weirdly to my chart even after reading my disclaimer at the bottom of it. That is, aside from some of Hillary’s minions who are simply terrified of that chart (and the hope it should give to Sanders’ supporters) and are driving trollies me on other parts of the Internet. What are these Hillary trollies afraid of, anyway? They keep saying Sanders has no chance of beating Hillary. You’d really, really think they’d have better things to do if that was the case.
