A January 2019 Pew Research Center survey showed that Democratic and Democratic-leaning registered voters say they want their party to move in a direction that’s more moderate (53 percent) than more liberal (40 percent). But these candidates have been ignoring what Democrats actually want. Over the last year, Democrats have increasingly lurched left, embracing expensive ideas like universal health care and free college for all, driven by a fervent progressive wing on social media. Just about the only places he didn’t win were heavily Latino or progressive hotbeds like college towns,” wrote The Cook Report’s Dave Wasserman in a tweet analyzing the Super Tuesday results. “The most impressive aspect of Biden’s performance was its breadth He won urban voters, upscale and middle-class suburban voters and rural/Appalachian voters.

That leaves a huge majority of Democrats out there who have voices that aren’t being heard - and votes that really matter. But just 22 percent of US adults use Twitter at all. In fact, a Pew Research Survey showed that Democrats on Twitter are 11 points less likely to name Biden as their first choice for the nomination than Democrats not on Twitter. Many Super Tuesday voters felt Sanders was too radical to defeat Donald Trump. “Journalists often confuse the Democrats on Twitter with Democrats generally, and they’re very different,” he added. “But we don’t have a Twitter primary, we have real primaries, where real people with real families and real issues go and cast real votes. “In the Twitter primary, there’s no question that Joe Biden was finishing third or fourth,” said McMahon, a longtime Democratic strategist based in Northern Virginia. And if you were just looking at Twitter, it was easy to see why. Never mind that African-American voters, a significant and moderating voting bloc within the Democratic electorate, had barely been represented in any of those early contests. Just one week earlier, the media had anointed Sanders the presumptive nominee after he scored a tie in Iowa, a marginal win in New Hampshire and a single big victory in Nevada. It was a resounding romp that proved social-media posts are no replacement for plain-old talking to real people if you want to know what’s actually going on.Īfter weeks of pundits declaring Biden’s presidential campaign dead, he is now the frontrunner with 664 delegates to Sanders’ 573. In fact, out of 14 states, former Vice President Biden won 10 - including upsets in Texas, Minnesota and even Elizabeth Warren’s home state of Massachusetts, despite having almost no TV or radio ad presence there. That’s how Democrat Steve McMahon sums up the Super Tuesday primary result in his home state of Virginia, which enthusiastically went for Joe Biden even after polls predicted Bernie Sanders would emerge the winner. And sometimes that evidence is right in front of you if you bother to look.” “Sometimes a good man beats a lot of money and a lot of followers on Twitter.

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