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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 4028597" data-attributes="member: 48469">Was catching up on the latest Bill Maher episode this morning and he mentioned this NYT interactive piece that points out that I&#039;m not alone in my moderation. Just here on BC and on social media. Will head on over to /r/politics and see how many hard left folks the NYT&#039;s having pointed this out has triggered. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/08/upshot/democratic-electorate-twitter-real-life.html" target="_blank">The Democratic Electorate on Twitter Is Not the Actual Democratic Electorate</a>Part of the conclusion at the end of the piece: &quot;Of course, the Democratic Party has moved to the left in recent years. It has moved far enough left that there’s plenty of room for a progressive candidate to win the nomination. It would be a mistake to dismiss Mr. Sanders’s chances of winning the nomination just because white progressives have generally fallen short in the past. The name recognition he earned in 2016 will be an asset that prior outsider candidates haven’t been able to count on, and so will his impressive small-donor fund-raising.But it would also be a mistake to assume that outrage on social media means outrage throughout the broader electorate. And it would be a mistake to assume that more moderate Democrats are out of step with the party’s electorate.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 4028597, member: 48469"] Was catching up on the latest Bill Maher episode this morning and he mentioned this NYT interactive piece that points out that I'm not alone in my moderation. Just here on BC and on social media. Will head on over to /r/politics and see how many hard left folks the NYT's having pointed this out has triggered. [URL="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/08/upshot/democratic-electorate-twitter-real-life.html"]The Democratic Electorate on Twitter Is Not the Actual Democratic Electorate[/URL] Part of the conclusion at the end of the piece: "Of course, the Democratic Party has moved to the left in recent years. It has moved far enough left that there’s plenty of room for a progressive candidate to win the nomination. It would be a mistake to dismiss Mr. Sanders’s chances of winning the nomination just because white progressives have generally fallen short in the past. The name recognition he earned in 2016 will be an asset that prior outsider candidates haven’t been able to count on, and so will his impressive small-donor fund-raising. [B]But it would also be a mistake to assume that outrage on social media means outrage throughout the broader electorate. And it would be a mistake to assume that more moderate Democrats are out of step with the party’s electorate."[/B] [/QUOTE]

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