Big Brother
Posted on 11/07/2025 2:59:07 PM PST by bitt
Democrats still don’t have a leader to guide them out of the wilderness.
Seismic victories in a series of off-cycle elections on Tuesday showed the power of an energized liberal base all across the country — and teased at the potential for the Democratic Party to storm back to power. But those wins did not immediately crown a singular leader who can harness that energy.
There are still dozens of competitors for the throne.
The POLITICO Poll, conducted by Public First in the closing weeks of the election, found a complete lack of consensus among 2024 Kamala Harris voters on an open-ended question: Who do you consider to be the leader of the Democratic Party?
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The top response was “I don’t know,” or some similar variation. It made up over one-fifth (21 percent) of responses. “Nobody” garnered an additional 11 percent.
Harris, the former vice president, was the highest person on the list and the only one in double-digits. But she was still named as the party leader by only 16 percent of the people who voted for her last year — a relatively small number given she is the party’s most recent presidential nominee, has made headlines with her book promotion and is considered a potential 2028 contender.
The rest of the top choices spanned an array of party stalwarts, including congressional leaders and former presidents. Few of them are widely considered to be among the 2028 contenders except Harris and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, who was named by just 6 percent of Harris 2024 voters as the current party leader.
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Harris in a debate would be hoot.
Democrats don’t know who leads their party
Answers given by 2024 Kamala Harris voters to the question, “Who do you consider to be the leader of the Democratic Party?”
Table with 2 columns and 29 rows. (column headers with buttons are sortable)
Democratic Leader
Don’t know 21.0%
21.0%
Kamala Harris 16.1%
16.1%
Nobody 10.5%
10.5%
Chuck Schumer 7.7%
7.7%
Hakeem Jeffries 7.4%
7.4%
Barack Obama 7.4%
7.4%
Gavin Newsom 6.2%
6.2%
Joe Biden 4.4%
4.4%
General answer 2.9%
2.9%
Ken Martin 2.2%
2.2%
Other name or unclear name 2.1%
2.1%
Bernie Sanders 1.9%
1.9%
Hillary Clinton 1.2%
1.2%
AOC 1.1%
1.1%
Jasmine Crockett 0.8%
0.8%
Donald Trump 0.8%
0.8%
Nancy Pelosi 0.5%
0.5%
Corey Booker 0.5%
0.5%
Tim Walz 0.4%
0.4%
Josh Shapiro 0.4%
0.4%
Pete Buttigieg 0.3%
0.3%
Zohran Mamdani 0.3%
0.3%
JB Pritzker 0.1%
0.1%
Mitch McConnell 0.1%
0.1%
Seth Moulton 0.1%
0.1%
Elizabeth Warren 0.1%
0.1%
Mike Johnson 0.1%
0.1%
Michelle Obama 0.1%
0.1%
Wes Moore 0.1%
0.1%
Note: A small number of answers, such as jokes, were removed. People named by fewer than 0.1 percent of respondents are not shown. The poll surveyed 2,051 U.S. adults from Oct. 18 to 21 and has an overall margin of error of ±2.2 percentage points. Subgroups have larger margins of error.
Just if the debate was between the 2 top runners:
Don’t know 21.0%
21.0%
Kamala Harris 16.1%
😂😂
Don’t Know leads at 21%. That sums up the dims pretty well.
😂😂. Little Joshy at 4 percent
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Harris isn’t a leader, she’s a person who benefited from being a woman & a non white right up until the 45th President defeated her on November 5, 2024.
She won’t run in 2028 because she’ll get crushed in the primary.
The day drinker will stick with California politics, where she can win elections.
Let me guess, Pete Buttlicker hit 69 percents. >D
LOL, Hillary is number 13. Oh, how the cankled have fallen.
“Don’t know” is obviously Justice Kunte Kinte Brown-Jackson.
Don’t know wins.
Gruesome is ranked just above Joe Zombie....hahhahah/
Gavin/AOC ticket
Not even Democrats want a multiple loser as their leader.
You always come up with the best graphics.
As Brewster would say “none of the above”
iykyk
some new democrat wonder savior will emerge from under a rock in a few years...
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