Jennifer Granholm: Voting for a Socialist Even Less Popular than Voting for an Atheist

‘That is why it’s an issue’

RADDATZ: "How about the charges he’s a socialist? The hammer and sickle, not quite the socialist..."
GRANHOLM: "Well, I would say, first of all, just one I don’t buy the premise that she is losing to Bernie Sanders in Iowa. If you look at the Godfather of all predictions, who is Nate Silver, the 538 blog, he gives her an 84 percent chance of winning Iowa. Sure, there are headwinds in New Hampshire. I would also say that the socialist label is something that he applies to himself, right. So, the question is how does that play across America? And what Jay Nixon who is the governor of Missouri, and Claire McCaskill, obviously a tough state, a middle of the road state, what they know is the same thing that the Republicans know when the last debate the Republicans kept cheering Bernie Sanders on on social media, is that the word socialist is a really hard word. Now, I love Bernie Sanders, really, I appreciate the fact that he’s bringing out young people, but when you look at that word socialist, the Gallup poll did an analysis of what are the characteristics that people would vote for in a president. Would you vote for a Mormon? Would you vote for a Jew? Would you vote for a Catholic? When they get to the question on would you vote for an atheist, it is — or, excuse me, a socialist, it is even less popular than voting for atheists. That is why it’s an issue."

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