I Keep Asking This Question. I Keep Not Getting Any Good Answers. You Will See In This Blog Posting That Even The Answer I Gave To Myself Is Not A Good Answer.

Read the article reproduced from the WSJ below, if you want to.

To me the important points are highlighted in bold by none other than me.

It begs the question, “How do they know all these numbers are true?”

I have included a short Blog Posting of mine from October 2009 at the bottom of this Blog Posting.

Way back then I was already asking the question, “How do they know all of this Specific, Exacting and Minutely Detailed Information?”

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

·         OPINION 

·          COMMENTARY

Young Voters Outgrow Bernie Sanders

Millennials in their 30s, four years older than in 2016, have been far less likely to support him.

By 

Allysia Finley

March 16, 2020 6:38 pm ET

Supporters of Bernie Sanders at a rally in St. Louis, March 9.

Photo: Sid Hastings/Shutterstock

Democrats started down the road to socialism, then took an abrupt U-turn in South Carolina and have been speeding away ever since. One reason is that young voters haven’t shown up for Bernie Sanders in the numbers he’d hoped.

True, Mr. Sanders won 74% of those under 30 in last week’s Michigan primary, according to exit polls. But that was down from 81% in 2016. Their share of the electorate also declined, to 15% from 19%. Voters over 45 made up 63% of the Michigan electorate this year, compared with 55% in 2016. They overwhelmingly favored Joe Biden.

Other states show similar patterns. Under-30 voters still heavily favor Mr. Sanders, but his support in this age group fell by 36 percentage points in New Hampshire, 17 in Nevada, 14 points in Massachusetts and Virginia, and 15 in North Carolina. These states all voted before the field narrowed to Messrs. Sanders and Biden, but that wasn’t enough for Mr. Sanders to carry Michigan, as he did in 2016.

Exit polls show voters under 30 made up a smaller share of the Democratic electorate this year than in 2016 in New Hampshire (6 percentage points), South Carolina (4), Alabama (4) North Carolina (4), Tennessee (4), Texas (5), and Virginia (3). Voters over 65 increased their share by 8 points in New Hampshire, 10 in South Carolina, and 7 in Massachusetts, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Young Democrats also appear to be aging out of their enthusiasm for Mr. Sanders as they mature and start making money. Wages for young workers are rising faster than for any other age group, which may have diminished the salience of his populist economic message. Mr. Sanders’s support this year among millennials in their 30s has been considerably lower than among those in their 20s. In Michigan, he won 53% of voters 30 to 39 compared with 74% of those under 30. In Iowa, 86% of voters under 25 in Iowa supported Mr. Sanders in 2016. This year only 55% of those 25 to 29 did.

It’s an old story. In 1972, when 18-year-olds voted for the first time, baby boomers were far likelier than older generations to support George McGovern. Today’s radical young voters are tomorrow’s cautious older ones.

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October 2012

Exit Polling

I could understand...

• 55% say they voted for this guy.
• 45% say they voted for that guy.

It is the Specific, Exacting and Minute Detail that I don't understand...

• 42% of the white voters, who went to two years of college, who were left-handed carpenters, voted for this guy.
• 63% of fallen-away Catholics, who have been married three times, where the first and third marriages were to the same person, voted for that guy.
• 54% of those who voted in the 1992 election, but did not vote in the 1996, nor the 2000 election, but returned to the voting booth in the 2004, 2008 & 2012 elections, voted for this guy.

Oh well, so much for Secret Balloting.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: Here is a Tongue-In-Cheek Answer I myself gave to this ongoing question back in November 2009…

How Do “They” Know That?

I have been told by my radio that the following is fact…

In The Last Year 82,000,000 Americans Contemplated Suicide

I ask you, How Do “They” Know That?

“They” would probably give me the standard response, “Researchers” told us.

Did “they” ask 82,000,000 people if they had contemplated suicide?

Ok, I know what “they” did. “They” asked a smaller number and extrapolated that smaller number into a larger number…

• If “they” asked 39 people and 10 said they had contemplated suicide, this would be 25.625%.
• There are about 320,000,000 people in the country at this time.
• 320,000,000 times 25.625% equals 82,000,000 suicide contemplating people.

That’s it! That is how “they” got to their number. I should have known that “they” would not give us a bum steer (whatever that means).

If this satisfies your curiosity, you can consider the matter closed and I encourage you to go do something constructive with your time.