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bluewater

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Sun Jul 19, 2020, 12:27 PM Jul 2020

New polls show Joe Biden is winning suburbanites by a historic margin

The new ABC News/Washington Post poll is the latest to show former Vice President Joe Biden on a roll.

He leads President Donald Trump 55% to 40% among registered voters. (It's a slightly tighter 54% to 44% among likely voters). The poll comes on top of other surveys last week from Fox News, NBC News/Wall Street Journal and Quinnipiac University giving Biden anywhere from an 8 to 15 point advantage.

Biden's advantage in the polls is most evident in the suburbs, where he is earning a historic amount of support for a Democrat.

Biden is up by a 52% to 43% margin among suburban voters in the ABC News/Washington Post poll.


Other polls in the last month show Biden in as good or even better position among suburban voters. The latest Fox News poll has Biden with 49% to 38% lead. Quinnipiac University poll puts Biden ahead by a 56% to 34% margin with suburbanites. The NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist Poll has Biden beating Trump 60% to 35% among suburban voters.

Our early June CNN poll had Biden with a 14-point lead in the suburbs.

In the average of all the polls, Biden's ahead by more than 15 points with suburban voters. This is a historic margin, if it holds.
The fact that Biden is doing so well in the suburbs shouldn't be a surprise. The suburbs are a bellwether vote of sorts in our current political environment. That is, the suburban vote mirrors the national vote closer than the urban or rural vote.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/19/politics/joe-biden-donald-trump-suburban-voters-polling/index.html


Tuesday, November 3rd cannot come soon enough.

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New polls show Joe Biden is winning suburbanites by a historic margin (Original Post) bluewater Jul 2020 OP
Polls look good. rownesheck Jul 2020 #1
I don't know how to do the math, PoindexterOglethorpe Jul 2020 #2

PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,746 posts)
2. I don't know how to do the math,
Sun Jul 19, 2020, 12:51 PM
Jul 2020

but it looks like a slightly higher percentage of Trump voters plan to go to the polls in November. Of course, a somewhat higher percentage of them will be unable to do so if they keep on insisting on their god-given right to not wear a mask.

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