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Biden Keeps Leads Over Democratic Pack
September 8, 2019 at 7:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 109 Comments
https://politicalwire.com/2019/09/08/biden-keeps-leads-over-democratic-pack/
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A new Washington Post/ABC News poll finds Joe Biden leading the Democratic presidential race with29%, followed by Bernie Sanders at 19%, Elizabeth Warren at 18%.
Kamala Harris is next at 7%, followed by Pete Buttigieg at 4%, Beto ORourke at 3% and Andrew Yang at 3%.
Key takeaway: Nearly 6 in 10 Democratic-leaning voters say they would consider switching to support another candidate for the partys nomination or that they still dont have a preference.
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primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
lunasun
(21,646 posts)In the past I always would have a favorite
I have no insight to my lack of one 2020
maybe because they are all good?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
applegrove
(118,600 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
LeftOfCenterVA
(3 posts)My preference.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
applegrove
(118,600 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Thekaspervote
(32,754 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)You go, Joe.
The world needs you.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,107 posts)Link to tweet
This is the grouchy-white-guy-in-the-diner problem all over again. Reporters are blinded by their own age, background, education and geography. Instead of going to West Virginia diners to find the Trump voter, reporters should go talk to the residents of The Villages in Florida, the African American churchgoing ladies and the buttoned-down professionals in the affluent suburbs (the Romney-Clinton voters). These people have endured a noisy, offensive and intrusive presence in the White House. They dont necessarily want a different noisy, intrusive presence even one they agree with on substance.
Part of the mystery of Bidens appeal would be solved if the moderators flipped their questions, as one smart Democrat not in the Biden camp put it. Instead of asking Biden or another moderate, Why arent you going with the big, bold idea of Medicare-for-all?, the moderators might consider asking Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) or Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Why blow up Obamacare, and why dont you trust people to choose Medicare if given the option? Instead of assuming that extreme proposals are the standard, requiring the moderates to explain why they are such wet blankets, the moderators should press the super-progressives on questions such as: What makes you think that voters want to go through another health-care makeover? Why should poorer people pay for richer peoples health care or subsidize their college debt?
Better yet, ask the candidates to relate the personal story from a voter who moved them the most, or the last voter whose phone number they took so that the candidate could call later, or the most insightful thing they have heard from a voter. It might reveal who is talking at voters and who is listening to them.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden