OMG! Sanders' support among "real people" collapses!!!!!

[brooklynite]

Remember that lead in the Iowa State Fair poll?

Remember: "Presidential Poll 2016: Bernie Sanders Beats Clinton In Iowa State Fair"?

Well, let's update that headline...

Day Five Results from Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate’s State Fair 2016 Presidential Straw Poll

DES MOINES – Iowa Secretary of State Paul Pate is conducting a Presidential Straw Poll throughout the Iowa State Fair at his booth in the Varied Industries Building. Fairgoers can participate in the poll via iPads at the Secretary of State’s booth.

Below are the result totals from all votes cast through five days of polling. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are tied with 623 votes apiece There have been 1,315 votes cast for Democrats. 2,982 votes cast for Republicans. 82 for 'other':

DEMOCRATS

Lincoln Chafee-1%
Hillary Clinton-47.3%
Martin O’Malley-4%
Bernie Sanders-47.3%
Jim Webb-1%

This of course is meaningless, but then I haven't been putting bouncing emoticons in my tallies...

[SonderWoman]

1. I thought Bernie won?

WHO WILL BREAK THIS TIE?!

[still_one]

2. Poll unscientific. Lawrence o'donald brought this up yesterday on his show. It was an

informal poll not indicative of anything

[brooklynite]

4. Absolutely true...which didn't stop the Sanders' folks from trumpeting every daily lead...

...hence my tagline.

[still_one]

14. got it. Not surprising though

[cyberswede]

18. Only a couple..not "the Sanders' folks"

I, for one, pointed out repeatedly that the poll was just for fun.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251522120

[1StrongBlackMan]

8. I liked the DUer's comment ...

(I don't recall who) saying he/she puts as much faith in the straw poll as a poll outside of a grocery store or on DU.

[lovemydog]

17. A few hundred people hopped up on alcohol & wing dings.

And that's just DU.

[BainsBane]

11. That anyone has to even be told that

is sad.

[still_one]

15. ya just never know sometimes

[BooScout]

3. LOL!

[Bluenorthwest]

5. So being tied with the front runner is now 'collapsing'? Of course 'front runner' is not exactly

accurate to describe a candidate tied for first place with a largely unknown challenger, and an argument could be made that if your status goes from front runner to tied for first the collapse is your own but why bother?

[1StrongBlackMan]

9. Well ... Losing by less than 50 points, has been held out as a sign of encouragement ...

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(see the numerous "Bern Surge" threads) ... so why wouldn't being tied?

[Comrade Grumpy]

6. Try to find something productive to do with your time.

[Motown_Johnny]

7. wrong again, Bernie lost by ~23 votes.

https://sos.iowa.gov/statefair.html

^snip^

D Lincoln Chafee 11 0.78%
D Hillary Clinton 677 47.84%
D Martin O'Malley 67 4.73%
D Bernie Sanders 652 46.08%
D Jim Webb 8 0.57%



and I agree it is meaningless


sorry for edits, it looks like the count keeps changing

[Metric System]

13. YES Hillary won. Yes it's also meaningless unscientific poll.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Let's all step back and see the what where and why.

This is a wonderful campaign shaping up and early on. If one thinks this 2016 Democratic Campaign will be little gotcha's and canned sound bites. Well,it sure as hell is not going to be,hey gang,we are seeing for the first time in many election cycles,issues being discussed. What a novelty. And the Public is starting to wake from their mental slumber. Candidates talking real people issues all because one fellow sees it's importance and it appears he wants to talk issues till he prevails. Hubert Humphrey was the last candidate to run this type of campaign. Yes there might have been others but they soon switched to using their Media Consultants and that proved to be their undoing.

[Iliyah]

12. LOL

[PowerToThePeople]

16. I kind of figured this would happen

He got way ahead over the weekend when he spoke.

My assumption is that the people showing up during the week are ignorant of his message and positions.

It just proves that he does need to get out there and get to talking.