If the Rasmussen polls have any credibility, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Joe Biden, the geriatric face of the Democratic Party, are in trouble. That’s because 73 percent of Democrats, the polling organization reports, want a “fresh face.”
And they don’t mean an old one with a face lift.
Democrats wants new blood, perhaps a candidate such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old socialist who knocked off Representative Joe Crowley, yet another old white guy the party’s young Turks are trying to put out to pasture.
Which is exactly what Ocasio-Cortez did, with 57.5 percent of the vote against Crowley’s 42.5 in New York’s 14th congressional district. Ocasio-Cortez will not lose the general election.
Rasmussen’s numbers might just suggest Ocasio-Cortez and other young ideologues are the party’s future leadership. What that means for its electoral fortunes, however, are another question.
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