This opinion piece is well written and says a lot with which I agree. Hillary has a broad coalition of supporters. And from some vantage points, the Sanders leap appears just too risky.
Here’s the column in USA Today by John Stoehr.
www.usatoday.com/…
The working class is supporting Hillary..
...In Michigan 61% of voters with no college and 51% earning less than $30,000 a year favored Clinton over Sanders, according to exit polling data. A similar pattern occurred in Ohio (62% and 59%, respectively), Florida (68% and 66%) and North Carolina (65% and 55%).
Clinton and Sanders split the vote among those earning over $100,000.
...Clinton also gets plenty of support from affluent voters, but so does Sanders. In Michigan and Ohio, they split the support of those earning over $100,000.
Though Sanders wages a class warfare type of campaign, workers still see Democrats and Hillary as the champion of their issues.
...Thanks to Democrats, progressives and their allies, California, the world's eighth largest economy, is about to see the minimum wage rise to $15 an hour. Other states may soon follow. Given that 42% of Americans earn less than $15 a hour, according to the National Employment Law Project, that looks like a good deal. And it didn't require a revolution that might or might not work out in the end.
Clinton's policies, pragmatism and sheer endurance could explain her appeal. But more likely, it’s that she's a good bet. When you don't have much in life, your margin of error is thin. Why take a chance with a man whose intentions are fair, noble and decent, when you can vote for someone you know is a fighter? Especially for the non-white working class, the establishment isn't the problem, and revolution isn't the solution. The problem is the Republicans. The solution is beating them.
The working class knows who its champion is.
Yes, this is how I feel. Hillary is working for me.