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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 5 Key Constituencies of the Democratic Primary
January 10, 2019 at 7:20 am EST By Taegan Goddard
Nate Silver sees five key groups of Democratic voters that matter in the 2020 Democratic primary:
1. Party Loyalists
2. The Left
3. Millennials and Friends
4. Black voters
5. Hispanic voters (sometimes in combination with Asian voters)
Youll notice that these groups arent mutually exclusive So rather than thinking about lanes, were taking a more pluralistic approach with the Democrats. Candidates dont have to pick any one group; rather, their goal is to build a majority coalition from voters in (at least) three out of the five groups. There are a lot of ways to do this: If youre choosing any three from among the five groups, there are 10 possible combinations to pick from,2 and all of them plausibly form winning coalitions.
The other difference from how we handled the Republicans four years ago is that, with the exception of The Left, none of these groups are explicitly ideological in nature.
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The 5 Key Constituencies of the Democratic Primary (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2019
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those voters can be across the spectrum excluding "the left", who I classify as the extreme left
beachbum bob
Jan 2019
#2
I said excluding the "left", centrist are found in all demographics with in the democratic party
beachbum bob
Jan 2019
#4
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)1. Interesting
The seem to have suggested there's no real Blue Dog/Centrist/DLC constituency.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)2. those voters can be across the spectrum excluding "the left", who I classify as the extreme left
the ones who would vote for a nader or a stein
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)3. The left is centrist?
Sounds like a bit of rhetorical flourish here.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)4. I said excluding the "left", centrist are found in all demographics with in the democratic party
except the Left
David__77
(23,636 posts)5. The implication is that there's no left that voted for Clinton.
I think theres a large left that voted for Clinton.