The Atlantic has published an article that ostensibly explains “Why Soviet Refugees Aren’t Buying Sanders’s Socialism.” On the merits, it never gets off the ground; as so often happens with demographic arguments against Sanders, the author never bothers to factually establish the underlying claim.

Olga Khazan does not even attempt to survey a significant number of Russian immigrants, nor does she cite anyone else’s polling on the matter. Instead, the piece relies entirely on two points of anecdote and conjecture:

1. Khazan conducts “Interviews with more than a dozen immigrants . . . in the bay area . . . part of a small circle — indeed, they know each other.”

2. Khazan notes that “some researchers have found that Russian Jews tend to be both less religious than their American counterparts and more conservative,” and cites a potential 30-40 point swing in their vote towards Republicans since 2012.