The polling firm asked: "Do you wish the candidates who run for Congress this year will be more or less like Bernie Sanders?"
A full 57 percent of Democratic respondents said "more like Bernie Sanders" in response. Sixteen percent said less while 27 percent responded "not sure." Not surprisingly, Sanders was less popular with conservatives. Only 13 percent of Republicans said they wanted candidates to be more like Sanders, while 74 percent said less. Independents were split. Twenty-seven percent said more like Sanders, while 35 percent said less, and 38 percent said "not sure." — www.newsweek.com/...
Yes, the margin among Democrats is 57 to 16 in favor of candidates “more like Bernie Sanders”.
A detailed demographic breakdown of the results is in the image below:
Economist/YouGov surveyed 1500 US adults with a demographic, ideological makeup that is rougly representative of the US electorate.
Women overall preferred candidates like Bernie by a narrow margin of 1% (that’s across all party affiliations).
Men on the other hand, appear to want candidates less like Bernie Sanders, by a margin of 8%. Some of this is explained by the fact that male US voters tend to be more conservative.
Among racial groups, White voters wanted candidates “less like Bernie”, by a 15% margin. Black voters preferred “candidates like Bernie” by the largest margin 45-14. Hispanic voters were about even, “Other” groups strongly preferred “candidates like Bernie”, 42-26.
Among Clinton voters, support for “candidates like Bernie” ran 62-19, higher than for registered Democrats. 80% of Trump voters wanted “candidates less like Bernie”.
About a third of people in every income bracket want candidates like Bernie, but opposition rises with income (as expected). Liberal voters prefer candidates like Bernie 64-17. The results are flipped among “conservatives”, 70% of whom want candidates less like Bernie. “Moderates” are evenly divided. The survey had more self-described “conservatives” than liberals, and more Democrats than Republicans, though Independents were larger than both party IDs.
The survey (link to PDF) did not clarify what “more like Bernie” meant. Respondents may have understood “more like” to mean policy, gender or race.
The survey also asked respondents whether they wanted candidates more like Donald Trump:
|
Donald Trump |
Bernie Sanders |
Candidates More Like |
30% |
33% |
Candidates Less Like |
48% |
38% |
Not Sure |
23% |
29% |
I’m as confused as you are about the 23% of voters who “aren’t sure” about Donald Trump.
By the way, this poll question about “candidates more like” Bernie underperforms his favorability rating, which is charted below by HuffPo (net favorability +24):
Obama’s favorability rating is higher (59.8%), though his negatives are higher as well, at 36.5%, (net favorability +23).
Trump has a negative favorability rating, 39.8% favorable to 53.4% unfavorable, (net favorability -14).
The Democratic Party’s favorability rating (as tracked by HuffPo) is negative by a smaller margin than Trump’s, 49.7% unfavorable, to 38.1% favorable, (net favorability -12).
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