Talk:1983 Burlington mayoral election

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Did you know... that Bernie Sanders won Democratic voters in the 1983 Burlington mayoral election despite not being the Democratic nominee?

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The result was: promoted by Amkgp (talk) 19:06, 6 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that despite not being the Democratic nominee, Bernie Sanders won Democratic voters in the 1983 Burlington mayoral election? Rice, Tom (January 1, 1985). "Who Votes for a Socialist Mayor?: The Case of Burlington, Vermont". University of Chicago Press.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hearst Tower (Manhattan)

5x expanded by Jon698 (talk). Self-nominated at 21:30, 5 December 2020 (UTC).[reply]

5x expansion verified, hook is cited inline (I've made a minor formatting change to the hook). I'm not at my institution right now and I can't log in into my institution account so I can't access the JSTOR source, so assuming good faith here. No other DYK issues found. QPQ still pending. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 01:04, 6 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

@Narutolovehinata5: Just got done with the QPQ.

Okay, GTG. Narutolovehinata5 ^tccsdnew 04:53, 19 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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that Bernie Sanders won Democratic voters in the 1983 Burlington mayoral election despite not being the Democratic nominee? — "won Democratic voters"

maybe "won Democratic voters" is standard US pundit jargon, but it reads very unnaturally to me. Among several grammatically possible readings, the one that seems most pragmatically likely is "won a plurality of the votes cast by voters registered as Democrats".
The corresponding statement in the article has been deleted making it DYK-ineligible
the impugned source was a telephone survey (226 voters) carried out after the election whose reported results are self-confessedly inconsistent with the actual results. Of course the actual ballot was secret.
A valid hook might be that a survey after the 1983 Burlington mayoral election suggested far more Democrats voted for Bernie Sanders than the Democratic nominee?

jnestorius^(talk) 16:37, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Where does "75.4% of Democratic voters" figure come from? This is not referenced and there is no further discussion of this in the body of the article. Presumably this is an exit poll number, which would mean it is an estimate (which should therefore not be given to that level of precision) rather than a true number.--LukeSurl^{t c} 18:27, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I've re-added the removed reference and written this "fact" in terms of it being based on a survey and lowered the precision of the number.--LukeSurl^{t c} 18:34, 12 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]