Bernie Sanders.

[Beet]

I'm sensing he has the Big Mo'. He's getting tens of thousands of likes on FB, he has hundreds of thousands of donors, and his reddit sub already has 33,000 users. Except gun control (which doesn't matter enough) there's nothing Hillary can offer to the left that he doesn't offer. How far does he go?

[Beet]

Great bait mate, I rate eight out of eight, haters gon' hate.

Oh sh**t, Bernie Sanders has more likes than Hillary Clinton on Facebook...

1m vs. 807k

It says 410k for me. But given as he's only been in the race for 10 days, still impressive

[Gallium]

If we predicted success by Reddit popularity, Ron Paul would be in the 7th year of his presidency.

Bernie will get around 25-35% in Iowa and New Hampshire. He'll drop out after Super Tuesday when Hillary sweeps everywhere but Vermont.

[Beet]

Great bait mate, I rate eight out of eight, haters gon' hate.

Oh sh**t, Bernie Sanders has more likes than Hillary Clinton on Facebook...

1m vs. 807k

It says 410k for me. But given as he's only been in the race for 10 days, still impressive

Go to US Senator Bernie Sanders.

I don't think his Senate account is comparable because he's probably had it for years. The campaign accounts were launched with their campaigns. Also, liking the campaign account is a more clear endorsement. But it's true that his Senate account may be leeching some of his campaign account's likes.

[Skye]

If we predicted success by Reddit popularity, Ron Paul would be in the 7th year of his presidency.

Bernie will get around 25-35% in Iowa and New Hampshire. He'll drop out after Super Tuesday when Hillary sweeps everywhere but Vermont.

Bernie would win by popular acclaim. No need for an election.

[Beet]

If we predicted success by Reddit popularity, Ron Paul would be in the 7th year of his presidency.

In 2008, reddit as we know it today did not exist. In July 2012, reddit got 40 million unique visitors. In April 2015, it had 169 million unique visitors.

[Gallium]

If we predicted success by Reddit popularity, Ron Paul would be in the 7th year of his presidency.

In 2008, reddit as we know it today did not exist. In July 2012, reddit got 40 million unique visitors. In April 2015, it had 169 million unique visitors.

These are the demographic survey results for the Bernie Sanders subreddit. I doubt the makeup of 2012 Ron Paul supporters was that different.

The problem for Bernie is that young middle-class (white) men only get you so far in a primary.

And the fact that now there's mild acquiescence to Hillary on Reddit, and even quite a lot of support for her on Daily Kos show's how much stronger a position she is in than in 2008, when those sites viewed her as literally Satan incarnate.

[SingingAnalyst]

If we predicted success by Reddit popularity, Ron Paul would be in the 7th year of his presidency.

In 2008, reddit as we know it today did not exist. In July 2012, reddit got 40 million unique visitors. In April 2015, it had 169 million unique visitors.

These are the demographic survey results for the Bernie Sanders subreddit. I doubt the makeup of 2012 Ron Paul supporters was that different.

The problem for Bernie is that young middle-class (white) men only get you so far in a primary.

I'm sure it wasn't. Politics is decided by older, wealthy men with political or financial connections. There is a certain segment of the population which could be called "independent" or "idealistic" or "disaffected" depending on the context. And yes they are disproportionately young, somewhat more male, usually single, and rather poor (I notice nearly a quarter of Sanders supporters have an income under $10K). They are not so much drawn to a particular ideology as they are feeling alienated from the political process, and if they vote, will vote for someone who taps into their discontent, whether it's George Wallace in 1968 or Eugene McCarthy in 1976 or John Anderson in 1980 or Ron Paul in 1988 or Ross Perot in 1992 or the Green or Libertarian parties today.

[Beet]

If we predicted success by Reddit popularity, Ron Paul would be in the 7th year of his presidency.

In 2008, reddit as we know it today did not exist. In July 2012, reddit got 40 million unique visitors. In April 2015, it had 169 million unique visitors.

These are the demographic survey results for the Bernie Sanders subreddit. I doubt the makeup of 2012 Ron Paul supporters was that different.

The problem for Bernie is that young middle-class (white) men only get you so far in a primary.

I'm sure it wasn't. Politics is decided by older, wealthy men with political or financial connections. There is a certain segment of the population which could be called "independent" or "idealistic" or "disaffected" depending on the context. And yes they are disproportionately young, somewhat more male, usually single, and rather poor (I notice nearly a quarter of Sanders supporters have an income under $10K). They are not so much drawn to a particular ideology as they are feeling alienated from the political process, and if they vote, will vote for someone who taps into their discontent, whether it's George Wallace in 1968 or Eugene McCarthy in 1976 or John Anderson in 1980 or Ron Paul in 1988 or Ross Perot in 1992 or the Green or Libertarian parties today.

Under 10,000   112   15.1%
100,000 and above   170   22.9%

[SingingAnalyst]

OK, so my percentages were a bit off. What jumps out at me is that less than a quarter have incomes over $100K. I wonder what percentage of donors to Clinton or Bush have incomes over $100K or over $1M for that matter? Plus users of this particular site (reddit?) may not be representative of the general population or even of registered voters.

[NeverAgain]

If we predicted success by Reddit popularity, Ron Paul would be in the 7th year of his presidency.

In 2008, reddit as we know it today did not exist. In July 2012, reddit got 40 million unique visitors. In April 2015, it had 169 million unique visitors.

These are the demographic survey results for the Bernie Sanders subreddit. I doubt the makeup of 2012 Ron Paul supporters was that different.

The problem for Bernie is that young middle-class (white) men only get you so far in a primary.

We young middle-class white men are very offended by your stereotyping.

[King]

Hillary better use all her CPs to spin, then.

[King]

Great bait mate, I rate eight out of eight, haters gon' hate.

Oh sh**t, Bernie Sanders has more likes than Hillary Clinton on Facebook...

1m vs. 807k

Hillary has 3.48 million followers on Twitter, however, while Sanders has only 348k.

[Nyvin]

Kinda weird that Sanders is pro-gun rights though

[Beet]

The New York Times is starting to notice Sanders' Big Mo, now that it's moved from online to offline.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/politics/challenging-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-gains-momentum-in-iowa.html?_r=0&referrer=

Never mind that I called it three weeks ago, right? "But Beet predicted Palin would be nominated in 2012 so we can discount his anti-conventional wisdom predictions!"

[King]

The New York Times is starting to notice Sanders' Big Mo, now that it's moved from online to offline.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/06/01/us/politics/challenging-hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-gains-momentum-in-iowa.html?_r=0&referrer=

Never mind that I called it three weeks ago, right? "But Beet predicted Palin would be nominated in 2012 so we can discount his anti-conventional wisdom predictions!"

Is this really surprising? Sanders is Democratic Ron Paul. His % of supporters who are vocal is much higher than other candidates, and if one doesn't understand that, it may give the appearance that there are more of them.

[Knives]

Ready For Hillary has like 2.2 million like tho.

[HAnnA MArin County]

If we predicted success by Reddit popularity, Ron Paul would be in the 7th year of his presidency.

In 2008, reddit as we know it today did not exist. In July 2012, reddit got 40 million unique visitors. In April 2015, it had 169 million unique visitors.

These are the demographic survey results for the Bernie Sanders subreddit. I doubt the makeup of 2012 Ron Paul supporters was that different.

The problem for Bernie is that young middle-class (white) men only get you so far in a primary.

We young middle-class white men are very offended by your stereotyping.

Indeed. This young middle-class white man is voting for the neoliberal neoconservative corporatist plutocratic warmongering hawkish polarizing calculating old racist shedevil George W. Bush rubberstamp bitch with cankles over the cantankerous old socialist from Vermont.

[Beet]

Hey guys, have you seen that poster Beet? His predictions and freak outs are always wrong. He's totally irrational!

[°Leprechaun]

He goes all the way to the Convention (I hope). Keep hope alive.

[RightBehind]

If we predicted success by Reddit popularity, Ron Paul would be in the 7th year of his presidency.

Bernie will get around 25-35% in Iowa and New Hampshire. He'll drop out after Super Tuesday when Hillary sweeps everywhere but Vermont.

Little did you know.

[Boston Bread]

I gotta applaud Beet's consistency. It's almost on par with Bernie Sanders.

[Shadows]

I'm sensing he has the Big Mo'. He's getting tens of thousands of likes on FB, he has hundreds of thousands of donors, and his reddit sub already has 33,000 users. Except gun control (which doesn't matter enough) there's nothing Hillary can offer to the left that he doesn't offer. How far does he go?

His reddit page has around 250,000 odd people - 33,000 maybe active at 1 point. We had a Communications Director posting there often - We've had Bernie & Jeff posting once.

At this rate we'll reach half a million soon - It's huge!

[Shadows]

Hey guys, have you seen that poster Beet? His predictions and freak outs are always wrong. He's totally irrational!

Beet you are a visionary like Sanders was about the Iraq War n everything. That was a great call. You should probably be on the Bernie train & feel the passion & the fight for a cause - You can vote for Hillary in Nov anyways!

[catographer]

I'm sensing he has the Big Mo'. He's getting tens of thousands of likes on FB, he has hundreds of thousands of donors, and his reddit sub already has 33,000 users. Except gun control (which doesn't matter enough) there's nothing Hillary can offer to the left that he doesn't offer. How far does he go?

No no, his supporters are just more populous on the internet. It gives the false impression that he's more popular than he actually is. He's losing the primaries in vote and delegate totals, yet FB trends have BirdieSanders and his win in Dems Abroad but Clinton's 5 state March 15 sweep didn't trend.