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Bernie Sanders Won New Hampshire With Coalition Of Gun Owners, Liberals, and Millennials

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Last updated on September 25th, 2023 at 01:53 pm

After New Hampshire and Iowa, rough outline of a new Democratic coalition is becoming visible. Bernie Sanders is cobbling together a coalition of gun owners, liberals, and millennials that could power him to victory in 2016.

According to NBC News exit polling Sanders dominated with millennials:

Sanders won gun owners by a 2 to 1 margin:

Sanders also won with non-gun owners:

Clinton dominated with voters who want to continue with Obama’s policies, and Sanders crushed it with voters who want more liberal policies:

What is clear is that Bernie Sanders had a huge victory. The dismaying element for the Clinton campaign is that Bernie Sanders is building a coalition that includes two groups that some Democrats might assume are opposites, gun owners and liberals.

Sen. Sanders could be in the process of building a new Democratic coalition that is made up of Independents, Millennials, gun owners and liberals. It may come as a shock to most Republicans, but there are plenty of liberals who own guns. The Clinton campaign’s decision to treat guns as a dividing issue may come back to haunt them in other states like Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Bernie Sanders is not Barack Obama, but he may be building a different Democratic coalition. The Sanders coalition so far is white, young, gun owning, and Independent. Sanders is putting together a group of liberals who are frustrated with years of Republican obstruction.

The characteristic that the mainstream media is missing about Sanders is that he is a fighter. A large segment of the Democratic Party is looking for a fighter, and Bernie Sanders has been fighting for decades. Bernie Sanders is the the real deal.

After Iowa and New Hampshire, a rough outline of the Sanders coalition is beginning to become visible.

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