7/22 Morning Consult poll, EARLY PRIMARY STATES: Biden 33%, Sanders 21%, Harris 11%, Warren 11%

[highplainsdem]

https://morningconsult.com/2020-democratic-primary/


Buttigieg 6%, Booker 3%, everyone else 2% or less.

Steyer is at 2%, listed between O'Rourke and Yang.

[Tiggeroshii]

1. Sanders doing even better in early primary states. Good to see!

He is creeping up to Joe!

[Vegas Roller]

4. ...

[Tiggeroshii]

7. GO BERNIE!!!!

[NNadir]

11. Yes, Go Bernie...

...away.

[Tiggeroshii]

12. ...

YOu mean, way* into the lead!

[NNadir]

17. No, I mean away. He won't. He considers coming in second or third proof that the whole world...

...is just dying to have his exalted brilliance at the top of everything.

There's something wrong with everyone who's not Bernie.

I have a vague feeling, not vague really, that we have all be experiencing this sort of thing, on a tragic scale.

I'm not into dogma and slogans, repeating tired old 1960's rhetoric (that was silly even then) in 2019.

I'm an old man and I've lived too long to be a reactionary.

I like people who think. In the primaries I'm ABB, anyone but Bernie. In the bizarre and awful case, and we've seen some bizarre elections in recent years with Putin's "help," that Bernie became the nominee, I'd vote for him, but weep for my country in doing so, a lesser case of a worse thing.

[Tiggeroshii]

33. GO BERNIE

And GO WARREN! She is doing great as well

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

31. You know it!! Those footsteps Joe hears are Bernie's gainin on him everyday!!

Just a matter of time now. Go Bernie is right!! Woohoo!!


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[Tiggeroshii]

32. Agreed!

Slow and steady wins the race. Im cool with them thinking Joe has nothing to worry about, honestly. GO BERNIE!!

[onetexan]

13. LOL, sums up how alot of us feel

[highplainsdem]

5. No, he isn't. Sanders has lost a point since last week's poll:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287202729

[Tiggeroshii]

6. Easily within the margin of error.

He's going steady!

[highplainsdem]

8. What's steady is Biden's lead.

[Tiggeroshii]

9. Not quite

One attack had him capitulating in the polls for a short period, which means any other candiddate getting more recognition will crater that lead in minutes. The center is divided more than it has ever been, with two progressive candidates staying strong.

[George II]

16. How does one "capitulate in the polls"?

[Tiggeroshii]

18. By giving up.

Which he has all but done at this point.

[highplainsdem]

19. You must have a very unusual source of news...

[Tiggeroshii]

23. It's obvious.

Some of the hardest things to accept are the things happening right in front of you. Let's talk again early next year and see how it goes. I'm willing to accept I could be completely wrong. But a year away from the last primary is probably not the time to call it.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

35. It IS obvious... the handwriting's on the wall. Not that Joe can't still recover...

but, it's not lookin good if you consider the number of candidates splitting the progressive vote. As that consolidates, it's pretty much over for Biden.


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!

[Tiggeroshii]

36. Agreed!

I'm quite optimistic

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

43. It's Bernie's time to shine... the sooner some learn to accept that fact, the better!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!

[George II]

27. Candidates don't participate in the polls. Debates? Maybe. Primaries? Definitely. Polls? Never.

[Tiggeroshii]

29. If they aren't trying to win, their support in the polls will obviously reflect that.

[highplainsdem]

30. Well, then, judging by the polls and what you just posted. Biden is trying hardest to win.

[emmaverybo]

41. LOL. Point to you. And yes, Biden's lead is steady. NT

[pnwmom]

22. How will "going steady" win him the nomination? He maxed out in 2016.

The millions of Hillary voters who chose her over him aren't going to prefer him to one of the many other qualified candidates.

[Tiggeroshii]

24. How many candidates have raised more than 10 million dollars?

And how many of those candidates are progressive, likely to take votes from Bernie? It is far more likely they will take votes away from other centrists like :cough: (Biden):cough:.

[highplainsdem]

25. Warren is taking supporters away from Sanders, and beating him in fundraising:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/16/politics/elizabeth-warren-2nd-quarter-fundraising-takeaways/index.html

Her total haul is particularly noteworthy given that the Massachusetts Democrat has declined to hold any high-dollar fundraisers or solicit wealthy donors this year. She outraised -- by about $1 million -- Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, the other candidate in the 2020 field who is currently pursuing a grassroots-only fundraising strategy.

[Tiggeroshii]

37. She is not taking away from Sanders.

She is taking away from a bunch of centrist candidates with voters who would likely never consider Sanders in a primary.

[highplainsdem]

38. Mother Jones: 4 Years Ago They Were Feeling the Bern. Now They're Backing Elizabeth Warren.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/06/elizabeth-warren-bernie-sanders-south-carolina/

[Tiggeroshii]

39. Because mother Jones totally decided the 2016 election for us, right?

[pnwmom]

26. Doesn't matter. Supporters of other candidates will eventually coalesce around

another candidate, and so will their dollars.

Elizabeth Warren, for example, is just as strong a progressive as Bernie, without the burden of his record on guns or environmental issues (wanting to send Vermont's waste to Texas.) She is someone who is drawing support from many Hillary voters.

[George II]

28. Don't forget race.

[George II]

15. C'mon man, don't deal in reality! "Sanders is doing even better in early primary states"....

If it was 65-20, it would be EaSiLy iN tHe MaRgIn oF ErRor!!



Remember, previously BS won New Hampshire by 23%, in 2020 he's in second place with Warren nipping at his heels.

[Tiggeroshii]

20. Remember, he was behind by 30% in these same polls you cite.

He won Michigan, and was behind by 30%. Do you remember that? selective memory is an incredible thing! HE also outperformed his polling averages in New Hampshire by 10%. My goodness... At that rate, he is indeed still set to win New Hampshire

You were laughing just as hard when Sanders was behind by 30% in the Michigan primary, I'll bet. Not so much after? You might want to save yourself some heartache and not put so much credence on early polling.

[George II]

21. Remember, that was when he was campaigning for a few months. In 2019....

he's been campaigning for 4+ years.

What we heard years ago was "nobody knows him". Now everybody knows him and it's being reflected in the polls.

[Blue_true]

40. The poll is an online poll.

Usually diehards are the only ones that reply to those polls. I know that Nate rates it B, but I personally would put more faith in poles that use landline and mobile phones, and randomly survey democratic voters.

[democratisphere]

2. Joe Biden continues STRONGLY in the lead.

[Cha]

3. Steady On Joe Biden.. we need you!

[Skya Rhen]

10. Joe's got this!

[onetexan]

14. In deed, great momentum

[redstateblues]

34. We need Joe more than ever. He's the one that can beat Trump

I like a lot of our other candidates but I'm just not confident any of them can beat Trump. I think Harris could come close but I don't want to take that chance.

[emmaverybo]

42. And Joe has the experience,knowledge, qualifications for the job more so than any other candidate.

[highplainsdem]

44. +1,000,000

[Kahuna7]

45. I suspect that with any candidate other than Biden...

it will come down to a Dem vs. the devil we know. I believe that with any candidate other than Biden, trump would win as the devil we know. Why? Biden is a known quantity.

I sincerely apologize if this offends the the supporters of the other candidates, however: