YouGov Poll: Biden voters prefer Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren as vice-presidential nominees
Interesting polling and analysis at the link.
“If Joe Biden were to ask his supporters to choose a running mate from his short list of potential vice-presidents, there would be no clear front runner. Four months away from the presidential election, Senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren currently lead the pack, according to recent Economist/YouGov polling. If Biden were to ask the same question of his least enthusiastic supporters, on the other hand, Warren would have an edge.
Of course, the choice of a running-mate is up to only one voter – Joe Biden – and public opinion of the contenders is just one of many factors Biden is likely weighing. Nonetheless, our survey data provides a window into the potential for some of the better known VP prospects to help Biden unify and energize his support.“
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“ Consider enthusiasm: The Economist/YouGov poll has been tracking reported enthusiasm for both Biden and Trump, and Biden’s supporters have consistently expressed less enthusiasm about him than Trump voters express about their candidate.
The vice-presidential selection gives Biden an opportunity to address that deficit, so we looked more closely at how Biden’s least enthusiastic supporters assess the potential running mates.”
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“ Note, however, that the gap in favorable ratings between enthusiastic and unenthusiastic Biden voters is far narrower for Warren than for Harris. The two senators earn essentially identical ratings among Biden’s most enthusiastic voters, with Harris (83%) two points higher than Warren (81%). However, among the least enthusiastic Biden voters, Warren’s rating (63%) is eight points higher than Harris’ (55%).
The difference is more pronounced on the question about preferred VP choice. Among the most enthusiastic Biden voters, Harris (at 32%) holds a significant lead over Warren (17%) and Abrams (7%). Among the least enthusiastic Biden voters, however, the order is reversed: Warren (at 31%) is the clear choice over both Abrams (11%) and Harris (10%).
The preference for Warren among the least enthusiastic Biden supporters has a clear explanation: Nearly three out of four say they voted in the Democratic primaries, and those that did preferred Bernie Sanders to Biden by a whopping 50-point margin (72% to 22%; in contrast to enthusiastic Biden voters, who preferred him to Sanders by similarly overwhelming margins). The least enthusiastic Biden voters are also more liberal (63%), younger (55% under the age of 45),more likely to be a woman (64%) than other Biden supporters.”
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2020/07/02/biden-voters-prefer-harris-and-warren-as-Biden-VP
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...sounds like this poll is among people who are already going to vote for Biden. I'd like to see him reach or a running mate that will expand his reach even further. Personally, I like Val Demmings....and, of course, I'll vote blue even if he picks a pastrami on rye as his VP.
I'd go with whoever can carry floriida. If trump loses Florida I don't think he can make it up anywhere else. I hope and pray he can carry ohio...a lot of my friends up in the Butler/Warren county area that were die hard trumpers in 16 are either silent today or pissed and ready for normalcy. Usually, ya think of those counties as hard red but I think it's that they're more hard patriotic and Trump's getting blasted in that group by the virus response and his lack of outrage at the possibility that Russia paid bounty for US heads in Afghanistan.
i want to see biden win enough states that all this BS about republican legislatures throwing the election to the House is a moot point.
