Exit Polling Shows Democratic Primary Voters With Favorable Views of Socialism
Exit polling seems to suggest that Democratic primary voters are not, on the whole, as opposed to the idea of a socialist nominee as some have supposed.
NBC News conducted exit polling in the four Super Tuesday states of Texas, California, North Carolina, and Tennessee and found that, in each of them, more Democratic primary voters said they had favorable views of socialism than unfavorable views.
Socialism enjoyed wide margins of Democratic voter support in Texas and California, the surveys found, with favorable/unfavorable breakdowns of 57% to 37% in the Lone Star State and 53% to 33% in the Golden State. However, its support among primary voters in the two southern states was considerably slimmer, seeing a 48% to 42% favorable/unfavorable breakdown in North Carolina and a 47% to 44% disparity in Tennessee.
Meanwhile exit polling reported by the Washington Post found that, among Democratic primary voters in Maine, “favorable views of socialism outnumbered unfavorable roughly 2 to 1.”
However, it’s important to take exit polling with a grain of salt. Case in point: Despite socialism’s purported net-favorability among North Carolina Democratic voters, it wasn’t enough to give Sanders a Super Tuesday win in the Tarheel State, which multiple outlets called for former Vice President Joe Biden shortly after the polls closed at 7:30. (Read more from “Exit Polling Shows Democratic Primary Voters With Favorable Views of Socialism” HERE)
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