“Berners have gotten SO much mileage out of that 4 month old poll.”
Harris conducts that survey every month; the Sanders results are statistically unchanged from April. Every other pollster that has polled on the question over the course of the last few months has replicated the results as well. CNN/ORC, Public Policy Polling, Fox/ARR, etc. There aren’t any outliers here. Harvard/Harris hasn’t released their August poll yet but in their July one, Sanders’ numbers with those demographics haven’t statistically changed.
“Every man Jack of you (and you are mostly, though not all, men) bring it up at some point in order to inform those who know who and what Bernie Sanders actually is that we are only 8% of the party.”
That’s not accurate. It’s 8% of the party who say they have an unfavorable view of Sanders; it’s only 3% who, like the hate-obsessed clown who wrote the article to which we’re all replying here, say they have a very unfavorable view of him. It’s a margin-of-error faction.
“It’s sort of the Berner version of Godwin’s law because the poll is in no way a valid measure of the attitude of members of the Democratic Party towards Bernie Sanders.”
To the contrary, it asks respondents their view of Sanders and gets their results. There’s literally no other way to ascertain an answer to the question.
“considering that Berners were screaming about online, self selected polls being just as valid as scientifically designed polls a little over a year ago.”
No, they weren’t. At all.
“Hillary Clinton’s approval ratings were higher than that when she left the State Department.”
When Clinton left the State Department in February 2013, her Huffpost Pollster average was 55.7% favorable, 35.4% unfavorable; Sanders’ current average stands at 57% favorable, 32.9% unfavorable. A statistical tie. And, of course, your decision to look at this point in Clinton’s ratings is entirely arbitrary, not tied to anything relevant.
