FiveThirtyEight
Perry Bacon Jr.

There is buzz on the left (let’s say the Intercept as a good example) about how MSNBC, officially the “liberal” network, is too anti-Sanders. James Carville has been on air there several times recently attacking Sanders and saying he will be a disaster for the Democrats in the general election. That is not a unique opinion among Democrats, but he is saying it very confidently. In the days between now and Super Tuesday, it will be interesting to watch the discourse on MSNBC in particular. There is not quite a Stop Sanders movement among Democrats, but there are a lot of prominent anti-Sanders people. I will be curious if the Never Trump Republicans on MSNBC (Nicole Wallace, Jennifer Rubin, Joe Scarborough, Michael Steele) in particular get really loud and vocal AND direct Democrats to get behind one anti-Sanders alternative. Younger people (Sanders’s base) don’t watch a ton of cable news. But the majority of the electorate is over 45.


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