Why do people consistently rate Sanders's policies as better or say he won a debate even when they said they supported another candidate?


That is not an opinion. That is an observed fact. (on which this opinion is based)

There's nothing wrong with an opinion if it fits the facts.

.....of this focus group, is that in those previous cases the nominees were already determined by the parties. We still are about two months away from our first state caucus and have 10-15 candidates. It's not a matter of choosing between one Democratic candidate and one republican candidate.

The focus group also consisted of only 25 people who had to choose among 10-15 people. From reading it, it looks like they went on until some were "worn down", which is not how elections work.

Problem is we don't' have to rely on Luntz's focus group
People trust sanders on these issues more than other candidates, even when they plan on voting for other candidates. This is consistent with what was said in the focus group.

And it's funny how you use opinion to make your case.

And that last part was a genetic fallacy.

But hey, thanks for trying to make an actual argument with some kind of substance.

So anyway I think this is the focus group being reffered to. I don't' post it for you since you apparently "rested your case" but for anyone else if they want too see if the people were swaying like palm trees or were "worn down"

I don't understand how so much credence is put in a focus group conducted by a right winger who helped Newt Gingrich with his "Contract for America" and who appears frequently on Fox News.

As a matter of fact, we probably should NOT rely on this focus group.

He's an expert manipulator of opinion and may have been working to pull Trump's perceived strongest opponent's ranking down and the Republicans' perceived weakest Dem candidate up. I've seen him do the same thing with other Dem candidates in the past.

Luntz was both Pat Buchanan's pollster and Newt Gingrich's pollster. He worked on the language for the "Contract With America". I have never seen him work for a Democrat. Luntz is the very definition of a sneaky political operative.

I also know that Trump would much rather go against Bernie than Biden, and he'd much rather go against Bernie than Warren. Warren scares the Republicans because they worry about how many Independent and Republican women might go for her. Biden scares Republcans because they think he can get votes from Indepedents and people in the Rust Belt.

I am not a fan of Luntz either but he does know what he is doing.

And his MO is to get an accurate idea of how people feel so that he can better manipulate them later. So it's not as if he can't do an honest focus group. (Historically it just wasn't always in his financial interest to do so)

I don't' think he's doing that last part here. I watched the focus group he did. Didn't' see any manipulative questions of framing. And I haven't' seen anything to indicate Luntz wants Sanders to be the nominee.

Still, it is Luntz. However the polls also back this up. People trust Sanders on the issues, even when they plan on voting for another candidate. So I don't think we have to trust Luntz on this anyway.

Frank Luntz is an example of the latter.

Bernie didn't win, but the focus group overwhelmingly believed that Sanders did prevail.