New Poll Shows Open Race In Iowa With Less Than A Month To Go

The Federalist ^ | Jan. 11, 2020 | Tristan Justice

[libstripper]

A new poll released Friday shows the race in Iowa is still anybody’s game with less than four weeks until the first-in-the-nation caucus.

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders narrowly leads the pack with 20 percent, according to the new poll conducted by CNN and the Des Moines Register. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren follows behind in a close second, having garnered 17 percent, with former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg earning 16 percent and former Vice President Joe Biden at 15. With a +/-3.7 percent margin of error, however, the race remains in a virtual dead heat without any clear leader.

[MNJohnnie]

Unbelievable we have come to this.

4 completely unqualified dangerously incompetent candidates. Is this really the best you got Dems? Are you not embarrassed by the circus clown level of your candidates?

[Zathras]

Biden and Bloomberg hardest hit

[pepsionice]

To some degree, I think Super-Tuesday will be the dividing point for the remainder of the election. If Mayor Pete hasn’t achieved a single win by this point, then he’s finished. If Warren hasn’t found new capital to put into her campaign...she’ll be finished.

From that Tuesday on, this is strictly Biden, Bernie, and Bloomberg. I don’t see any clear winner by the convention, and this will be some big enchanting week where anything is possible.

[eyeamok]

They are all running for Vice President though, the Nominee won’t be picked until the Brokered Convention coming up. I hear that Ayatolla Khomeni has a pretty good shot though

[Persevero]

Their bench is so bad.

I don’t mean their political positions. Of course they are atrocious.

I mean their charisma, their baggage, their age, their inelectability for various reasons. Their whiteness (fine with me but not with their base). Their obvious hypocrisy on several issues. They are just awful.

[ifinnegan]

“4 completely unqualified dangerously incompetent candidates.”

That’s why they’re all tied at such low numbers.

[dowcaet]

I think you’re right. Commie Bernie, Slow Joe and Doomberg are most likely the final three with Shrillary and Moochelle out there waiting for a brokered convention.

[neverevergiveup]

Herpes, small pox, dengue fever, leptospirosis, etc.
Who will win?

[Alberta's Child]

For all its hype, Iowa is one of the least consequential primary/caucus states of all. Over the last three or four decades, I believe the winners of contested caucuses in Iowa have gone on to win their party's nomination only about 50% of the time. Past winners in Iowa include such notable losers as:

1980 -- Geoorge H. W. Bush (R)
1988 -- Dick Gephardt (D)
1988 -- Bob Dole (R)
1992 -- Tom Harkin (D)
2008 -- Mike Huckabee (R)
2012 -- Rick Santorum (R)
2016 -- Ted Cruz (R)

[niteowl77]

For all its hype, Iowa is one of the least consequential primary/caucus states of all.

From your lips...

I would love to see both wings of the uniparty nuke the "first in the nation" crap. This year has been the worst ever for political ads; if you live in Iowa, they are inescapable and relentless. This cycle's crop of misfits turn any waiting room with a television into a torture chamber.