Just want to let Ebbie know that I think she's right about Sanders.

One think our UK friends may have missed hearing is that 43% of Iowa Democrats identify as Socialists. Iowa is a majority Republican state, many of them being very conservative, but the Democrats swing just as far the other way.

Food for thought, this bit clipped from the History of American Socialism entry at Wikipedia:

A June 2015 Gallup poll revealed that 47% of respondents would vote for a socialist president, while 50% would not. Willingness to vote for a socialist president was 59% among Democrats, 49% among independents and 26% among Republicans.[10] An October 2015 poll found that 49% of Democrats had a favorable view of socialism compared to 37% for capitalism.[11] According to a 2013 article in The Guardian, "Contrary to popular belief, Americans don't have an innate allergy to socialism. Milwaukee has had several socialist mayors (Frank Zeidler, Emil Seidel, and Daniel Hoan), and there's currently an independent socialist in the US Senate, Bernie Sanders of Vermont. In 1920, Socialist Party presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs won nearly 1m [million] votes".[12]