40% can not name a candidate.

From The Most Telling Impeachment Poll by James Freeman.

The latest University of New Hampshire Granite State poll finds that when likely Democratic voters in the state are asked an open-ended question about whom they will vote for in the 2020 primary, 40% can not name a candidate. The winner of the 2016 primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont is the choice of 18% of respondents, Mr. Biden is the choice of 12%, South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg receives 11%, Sen. Kamala Harris of California enjoys 4% support, and Sen. Warren from neighboring Massachusetts is tied with two other candidates at 3%.

New Hampshire is the first state to vote in the primaries. Likely voters are those most engaged in and/or those most likely to pay the most attention to politics.

And yet even among this select group of interested voters, likely voters, and voters in the first state to hold primaries, 40% can not name a candidate.

I have long claimed that one of the errors that the Mandarin Class, and the mainstream media in particular, routinely make is to radically overestimate how much regular people are interested in the things that interest the Mandarin Class. The intersection space on the Venn diagram is markedly small. I think.

Even so, I am surprised by that 40% number. People really aren't interested in the things that the Mandarin Class obsess about.

And we are a better country for that. We will be an even better country once the Mandarin Class finally get around to focusing on the issues of importance to Americans.