In the never ending war that is the 2016 primary, one number has floated around a great deal. It suggests that about 12% of Sanders supporters voted for Trump in the General Election.
Well, the data is online, and I have started to play around with it in preparation for writing about it.
There were 1,262 people in the file that voted for Sanders in the primary.
Of those 955 voted for Clinton.
Of these 896 voted for Obama
Of these 10 voted for Romney (ie Romney to Clinton)
Of these 24 voted for other (third party)
Of these 25 did not vote
147 voted for Trump
25 for Gary Johnson
73 for Stein
38 other
Of the 147 for Trump:
91 voted for Romney in 2012 (61%)
Of the 73 that voted for Stein
50 voted for Obama
4 Romney
19 voted for Stein
On number not talked about: 49 Sanders voters did not vote in 2012, or voted third party in 2012, but voted for Clinton in 2016.
My suspicion has been there was very little real Sanders to Trump vote, and this provides support for that.
One of my assumptions is that the Clinton v. Sanders race was about the establishment, and the sense that the system was rigged. So this REALLY surprised me. There was little difference between Clinton and Sanders voters on this score. Note as the primary fight went on BOTH sets of voters changed their views on this question.
To my surprise, there was little difference b/w Sanders and Clinton voters on ? of if system is rigged. Note CHANGE in both over primaries pic.twitter.com/bIrrIgOrJh
— dcg1114 (@dcg1114) September 11, 2017
