I wonder why no news or polling agency has done a poll for a 3 way presidential race?

[tk2kewl]

[Florencenj2point0]

1. Three way with who?

[dlwickham]

2. they have

google is your friend

[tk2kewl]

3. I didn't see what I was looking for

[PoliticAverse]

4. Who is the 3rd in your 3-way? n/t

[tk2kewl]

8. Trump/Clinton/Sanders

[pnwmom]

11. Why would they waste money on a poll when Sanders has explicitly ruled out a run?

Gary Johnson, by contrast, actually is running.

[pnwmom]

5. They have, and RCP has been reporting them.

The 3rd party candidate is Gary Johnson, the Libertarian

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson-5949.html

[scscholar]

6. It would give Bernie hope...

so of course they refuse to do their job.

[pnwmom]

9. You're wrong. The polls are being done and being reported.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson-5949.html

[tk2kewl]

15. Given (1) Bernie's strength with indies

(2) His support by ~45% of dems

(3) Most everyone but the wingnut right hate Trump

and (4) the level of dislike for Hillary on the right and left

I think Bernie would win.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

23. Did you think he would win the primary? N.T.

[tk2kewl]

24. Originally, no

Then there were times I thought he might.

[Lord Magus]

35. You're delusional to believe that.

He has the support of about 43% of those who voted in the Dem primaries. Nowhere close to the same as 43% of all Dems since most people don't vote in primaries. He'd loose a lot that support if he ran 3rd party. The most he could do in a 3rd party run would be to act as another Ralph Nader.

[TwilightZone]

7. They've been running them for more than a month. Several have been posted on DU.

Start here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton_vs_johnson-5949.html

[tk2kewl]

10. not the one I'm interested in

[TwilightZone]

12. Sanders has already indicated he's not running as an Independent, so including him would be

a waste of time and resources.

[tk2kewl]

22. If 44% of Dems think he should run as an independent, I think it's newsworthy enough for a poll

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512192564

[TwilightZone]

25. One poll with little underlying information is not a basis for nationwide polling.

Particularly when Sanders himself has indicated that he's not running.

The Reuters poll included 455 recipients with an MOE over over 5%. They have not published any related data or how the questions were posed, which is usually standard when polls come out. Without that, it's just a number.

[tk2kewl]

32. So no less than 39% of Dems think he should run indie. Interesting.

[TwilightZone]

34. 39% of 455 people

[tk2kewl]

37. 44% of 455 people

I think the MOE corrects for sample size

[Andy823]

28. 44% out of 455 people

Thats like around 200 who want him to run, not really a great number. The vast majority of Democrats don't want him to run, they have already voted, it wasn't Bernie that they picked. These kind of BS polls are just being done to keep the division in the Democratic party. Sure Trump would love it, and the GOP would love it, but Bernie has said he won't run, so unless you think Bernie is a liar, you might as well forget about it.

[pnwmom]

13. Sanders has said he'll never do that. Do you think he is lying?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-independent_us_55ba86e7e4b06363d5a1742b

“

Sanders, an independent in the U.S. Senate who is seeking the 2016 presidency on the Democratic ticket, explained in a Q&A session with the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce that he feels a responsibility to stick to the two-party system in the presidential contest.

If it happens that I do not win that process, would I run outside of the system?” Sanders said in the interview broadcast by C-SPAN. “No, I made the promise that I would not and I will keep that promise.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/may/17/bernie-sanders-camp-sanders-isnt-going-launch-thir/

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Sen. Bernard Sanders’ campaign manager said Tuesday that Mr. Sanders is not going to launch a third-party bid for the White House — a possibility that presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has been openly encouraging.

“Bernie Sanders has said he will not run as a third-party candidate. He’s going to support the Democratic nominee, and that’s what he’s going to do,” Sanders campaign manager Jeff Weaver said on CNN’s “New Day.”

“Trump obviously would like a third-party candidate on the left so that he [could] try to divide the vote and win, but I think what you’re going to see is unity to defeat Trump,” Mr. Weaver said.

[Cali_Democrat]

19. You don't know what you're interested in. nt

[Nye Bevan]

14. Because Bernie has promised not to participate in such a race?

And if he breaks this promise, the disgust and disillusionment among those who thought that he was a "straight talker" would leave him with zero chance to win?

[tk2kewl]

16. while I know what has transpired, I disagree with your assessment of how he would be received

[Nye Bevan]

17. If he can't be trusted to keep this promise,

how can he be trusted with any other promise? How would people know that he wouldn't also abandon his plans to bring down the oligarchs and cozy up to them instead?

[tk2kewl]

18. His record demonstrates his trustworthiness

The other two, not so much.

I think Bernie could come up with a reasonable explanation for a change of heart.

Making an issue out of trustworthiness would likely still work to his advantage.

[Agnosticsherbet]

20. I've seen several polls with Libertarian and a few with the Green Party.

In those polls, the Libertarian has the largest effect and most of that being to hurt Trump even more. One with Green and Libertarian added, showed Trump winning, but it was before California. The other poll I saw reflected Trumps collapse in the polls, and Clintons margin of victory was cut.

There are other parties out there but, collectively, they will not amount to more than 1% of the vote.

[NCTraveler]

21. They have been. Nt

[MFM008]

26. They have been with and without

both Johnson and Stein.
Johnson pulls about 6%
Stein 2%

[w4rma]

27. Bernie is a man of his word and already said he wasn't running as an independent. (nt)

[Andy823]

29. Look to me like

You are just trying to keep things stirred up here on DU. That's not really a goo way to unite the party so we can beat Trump, now is it?

[Hekate]

30. They're counting the Libertarian in as we speak. What else did you have in mind?

[snot]

31. The media blackout has been THICK, apart from the occasional, more or less ridiculous attack.

[gollygee]

33. Sanders is not going to enter the race as a third party candidate

The Libertarian candidate might get a lot of votes though.

[Lord Magus]

36. Why on Earth would they waste their time polling that?

Bernie's not going to be on the ballot in November, get over it.

[DemocraticWing]

38. I think it was Bloomberg who did a poll with Bernie going Indy.

He had 18% and Trump went from 3 points down to 3 points up when Bernie was added.