Talk:1983 Burlington mayoral election

Opinion poll
that Bernie Sanders won Democratic voters in the 1983 Burlington mayoral election despite not being the Democratic nominee? — "won Democratic voters" jnestorius(talk) 16:37, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
 * 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?


 * 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.--LukeSurlt c 18:27, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
 * 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.--LukeSurlt c 18:34, 12 January 2021 (UTC)