Even with The Donald supposedly energizing voters, Biden still does quite well against Trump, and he hasn't even announced yet. Multiple polls have even shown Sanders beating Trump!
But, as we can see here, people get worked up over the polls they like and then they turn around later and call those same polling outfits (ABC News, WaPo, Reuters, PPP, NBC News, WSJ, etcetera, etcetera) liberal, untrustworthy and so on. Go figure.
The GOP may have picked the wrong person (Hillary) to go after (although she does need to gone after to get to the heart of servergate, and they have done a somewhat good job so far of going after her.)
But Joe Biden may not enter the running, so they may have picked the right person after all...
That is because Crazy Uncle Joe hasn’t opened his yap as an announced candidate yet.
Biden will last until the first debate. Actually with Joe as the nominee, I expect the DNC to move heaven and earth to keep debates from even happening
RUN JOE RUN!!!!! I back Joe Biden 1000% over Hillary!! I am his biggest fan!!
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Oh oh, Joe getting in Hitlerys way. He better up the secret service protection.
What word do they most associate with Uncle Joe?
How about “plagiarism?”
anyone remember that? It’s what finished his candidacy in ‘88.
Doesn’t Biden have a health problem (brain aneurism)? Will that be off limits for debate if he enters the race?
If Hillary gets the nod, the first thing I would start talking about was her stroke. I would ask her to release her medical records.
He’s gonna make her an offer he can’t refuse.
The internals of this poll are truly frightening.
It looks like so far with the 2016 election, ideology reigns as #1, with popularity #2, with specific competencies and trustworthiness far behind. In 2008, popularity was king.
Look at the 18-34 year old, 35-49 year old, and college educated vote. All Democrat candidates have the strongest support in these three cohorts. The age groups have shifted from In 2008, younger people supported Obama first and foremost because he was charismatic, young, hip, and cool (popular). Clinton, Biden, and Sanders have none of Obama’s charisma, youth, or hipness, but all are ideologically left.
Even among the college educated, Bush fares poorly against all three. So the supposedly nuanced, educated voters, when faced with a totally untrustworthy Clinton, or a socialist flake Sanders, prefer them to a GOPe Bush.
The Republicans, conservatives, and the populists have lost the future.
How damaged is the Republican brand at this point? How much damage did George W. Bush, Iraq, and Katrina do to the Republican party? The answer is enough to insulate the Stuttering Clusterf—k or a Miserable Failure that is Obama from any repercussions of his failures, and the ossified Democrat party.
Is this a vote for liberal policies, or is this a vote against Republicans? I think it is both. Republicans were still a tarnished brand in 1980, but Reagan was able to win against a failed Democrat president by selling conservatism as the answer.
We have a problem. Rubio’s youth, charisma, and optimism cannot move the scale with the under 50 and the college educated. Bush’s supposed broad appeal cannot move the scale with the under 50 and the college educated. Trump’s populism and brashness cannot move the scale with the under 50 and the college educated.
Everyone in the political class is worried about the Hispanic vote, but Bush or Rubio getting 35% of the Hispanic vote is not going to be enough to win the election. But I think the under 50 vote is far more important, as is the college educated.