44% of Sanders voters in WV are Trump supporters

[TwilightZone]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1251&pid=1936282

Remind me again why we're supposed to think that conservatives choosing our nominee is a good idea?

Plus another 31% who are going to stay home, vote for a third party or write someone in.

[Rose Siding]

1. Crossover votes in an open primary after gop has a nominee

Open primaries allow for this.

[Mz Pip]

2. It's pretty obvious

The GOP would rather face Sanders than Clinton.

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I hope Bernie is very proud of his win.

[savalez]

4. That's why the whole argument that

open primaries favor bernie is bullsh#t. Especially now that the GOP has their nominee.

[sarae]

9. good point

It seems like open primaries are largely a way for voters to screw up the other party.

[savalez]

10. Can you imagine?

If the GOP had only one person running in their Primary. With Open Primaries they would be able to pick the weakest Democratic candidate. They'd do that every single election.

[TwilightZone]

11. In 2012, 41% of voters in the WV Dem primary voted for a guy who was in jail

Hmm, almost the same percentage!

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/prison-inmate-wins-more-than-40-of-democratic-vote-over-president-obama-in-wv-primary/

Edit: he got almost as many votes as Romney did in the GOP primary. Too funny.

[savalez]

12. Oh brother....

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. See

Bernie has crossover appeal.

[TwilightZone]

8. Yeah, they didn't tell us that the voters would cross over and back again in November.

They kinda left that detail out.

[Walk away]

6. Ratfucking! Trump supporters are going to try to make Hillary lose....

because they know how weak Bernie is. That's inevitable since Trump has already won his nomination.

[still_one]

16. That is the problem with open primaries. However, CNN said one-third of the WV Democrats would

vote for trump

[TwilightZone]

7. So, basically, Trump won both primaries.

Or so it would seem.

[still_one]

17. Actually, that sums it up perfectly

[LisaM]

19. Exactly.

And the sad thing is that Trump probably cares less about WV jobs than anyone running.

[fleabiscuit]

13. I'll repeat this here too. :-)

BFD, WV voted almost 2 to 1 for Romney in the 2014 general.

[TwilightZone]

14. States we won't win in the GE only matter if Sanders wins them in the primaries...

or something like that.

[fleabiscuit]

15. BINGO! LOL

[Legends303]

18. Gosh can you imagine Sanders representing us in GE

he would get crushed under foot in most states since most of his support came from Trump voters