What Went Down On Day Three Of The Democratic Convention

I don’t think he would have done well. He would have had little support from party elites, and the progressive movement was squarely behind Sanders. Liberals would have been unlikely to fall for a former senator from Delaware, which has a lot of corporate loopholes.

If Joe Biden had run this year, challenging Clinton for the Democratic nomination, how do you think he would have done?

Sanders supporters were likely among those chanting “no more war.” A poll conducted last month by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs showed that just 12 percent of Sanders supporters favored a dominant role for the U.S. in the world, compared with 29 percent of Clinton supporters. And 15 percent of Sanders supporters said maintaining superior military power wasn’t important at all, compared with 8 percent of Clinton supporters. CORRECTION (July 28, 10:30 a.m.): An earlier version of this entry misstated the name of the group that conducted a poll of Clinton and Sanders supporters. It is the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, not Public Affairs.