Posted on 04/30/2019 7:00:26 AM PDT by Kaslin
Joe Biden has emerged as the frontrunner among Democrats, who overwhelmingly support the former vice president more than Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
According to a new CNN/SRSS poll released Tuesday morning, 39 percent of Democrats surveyed favor Biden while Sanders drew support of 15 percent of Democrats—a 24-point difference.
Biden and Sanders are the only two Democratic candidates whose support was in the double digits, the poll showed.
The next candidates to pull in the strongest numbers were Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 8 percent and South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 7 percent. Former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke had 6 percent support, followed by Sen. Kamala Harris at 5 percent. According to CNN, the other 17 Democratic candidates surveyed only received 2 percent support or less.
Biden's lead extends across most every major demographic or political group, though it shrinks some among younger voters (31% Biden to 19% Sanders among those under age 45), liberals (32% Biden to 19% Sanders) and whites (29% Biden to 15% Sanders among white voters).Still, only about a third of potential Democratic voters with a preference in the race (36%) say they will definitely back the candidate they currently support, 64% say they could still change their minds. Those who say they are locked in are more apt to back Biden: 50% in that group support him, 21% Sanders, 8% Warren.
Biden and Buttigieg were the only candidates to show significant gains from CNN's March survey, with the former receiving an 11-point surge in support and the latter posting a 6 percent increase.
The survey was conducted between April 25-28 and has a margin of error for Democratic-leaning voters of 5.9 percentage points.
IMO the field will be winnowed down quickly once the debates and primaries start. Too many candidates with too few donors.
I truly hope that you are 10000% right. And I’d absolutely love to see Blumenthal looking at some prison time. These two and everyone else involved have made a living out of destroying peoples lives for their own greed and amusement. But, I don’t trust her as far as I could kick her fat a$$.
She’s a snake in the grass and a quick perusal shows that Perkins Coie, DNC, Fusion GPS, her campaign, paid for the dossier. She’s survived decades of criminal activity with nothing. Not a scratch. And if I’m not mistaken, didn’t some Anti Trump, Republican-type have a hand in it, as well.
As I stated, she’s a snake in the grass. She’ll come up with some type of deniability. Will it work? I hope not. Time will tell. We’ll find out if/when they start picking off the low level folks and see if they start flipping. We’ll find out just who is loyal enough to fall on the sword for her.
I’m thinking, since she’s nothing but a fat old, incompetent drunk, her loyal fan base has been shrinking at a rapid rate. We shall see.
But, as I stated initially, I hope that you are as right as rain and that they’re all in a courtroom very soon.
Maybe 120 people at a Cedar Rapids community hall. Notably, no Amish. Zero.
Which States that Trump lost will flip? I bet that if Biden is the nominee, he wins PA, and that is 20 EVs that Trump won in 2016.
That debate was moderated by ABC FakeNews slug Martha Raddatz. What makes you think ABC didn't give Biden the questions in advance the way Donna Brazille did for Hillary?
That debate was moderated by ABC FakeNews slug Martha Raddatz. What makes you think ABC didn’t give Biden the questions in advance the way Donna Brazille did for Hillary?
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That’s true, but Ryan didn’t seem ready at all. It was like he just got off the boat from the Ukraine or something and had never thought about any of these issues once.
He might get so angry that he’ll try to go 3rd party, taking the liberal-hipster-socialist vote with him, thus splitting the party.
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My dream.
Well that certainly wasn't the impression at the time - Biden came across as an obnoxious jerk and a hyena with comparisons to The Shining or the Joker and several polls showed Ryan winning, though probably by default because Biden came across as so unlikeable.
Prediction:
Biden will take the lead, and will either be the first candidate to die of natural causes a month before the election or be the first candidate to run with brain cancer, Alzheimer’s or a massive stroke.
Trump will get 49 states and Biden will be drooling in a wheelchair, celebrating his victory of Delaware’s 3 electoral college votes.
The evil witch will never by president, though I do hope she gets the nomination. She has not gotten any more popular, and won’t.
Nope, but if anyone is asking her, she’s our savior and has been for the last30+ years. We’re all just too dumb to know it. Think about it. The whole Russian thing was a way for them to overturn the election because 60+million people were too stupid to vote for her. We’re all too ignorant to know that she walks on water and is the smartest person on the planet.
I truly hope she gets the nomination or at least plays some part in the game, later on, so she can destroy that party.
None of this matters. A certain number of voters will vote for whomever the Democrat nominee is - regardless of who it is.
The MSM will spend a year obsessing over it, but there is nobody on their current list, or even their imaginary list, who can change the fact that President Trump is a successful incumbent, with a strong economy, a world in relative peace, no serious blunders, coasting toward an easy re-election victory.
They could bring JFK back from the dead and still lose in 2020.
| alloysteel, beautifully said -- and worth re-FReeping. Has socialism ever inspired a great work of art? The only Soviet-era novelists we know were free men in spirit, chained by an oppressive State. * * * Bafflement wins every time. It is impossible to divine the thought processes of most people over on the left-of-center and WAY-left-of-center, as they are not strong on logic at arriving at their conclusions and forming their opinions. Socialism, the hallmark of the kind of mental gymnastics of those who aspire to the “comfort” of a command-and-control governance, is a Siren call to those who try to negotiate the narrow strait between Scylla, represented by the rocky shoal, and Charybdis, represented by the swift current and undertow of a whirlpool. With any form of socialism, you are stuck between a rock and a hard place, either to be ground to pieces in the chaos of unending and unresolved conflict, or to be drawn into a militaristic society. Those are the only two outcomes in a post-socialist regime. Emotionally, socialism seems to promise the end to want, conflict and onerous responsibilities, but it has NEVER delivered on any of these vague objectives. The magnetic allure of Gropin’ Joe? He does not offer to apply the socialist state all at once and immediately, preferring to heat the water that ends up boiling the frog but more slowly. Slow Joe, indeed. |
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