Biden still rules the roost, while Sanders's wings get clipped

[George II]

Skeptics of former vice president Joe Biden are quick to point out that it is nine months before the first votes are cast. Still, he continues to lead his closest rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) by a mile. Everyone else is in single digits.

The latest Morning Consult poll finds Biden at 39 percent (statistically the same as last week’s survey), Sanders at 19 percent (also the same) with Sens. Kamala D. Harris (D-Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) at 8 percent and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg at 6 percent.

While on one hand the race seems static, the pollsters note that Sanders has declined with his strongest age group (18 to 29) from 39 percent in February to 33 percent now. (Some of those have gone to Warren, who has improved with this age bracket.) Biden also is pummeling Sanders with over 65 voters (52 percent to 9 percent) and with other age groups as well. The race is 45 to 14 percent for voters ages 55 to 64, and 41 to 18 percent for those 45 to 54 years old.

In early primary states, presumably where voters are more plugged in, Biden leads by 20 points, but Warren is up 3 points from last week at 9 percent.

(more....but note, this is behind a pay wall, sorry)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/14/biden-ruling-roost-sanderss-wings-clipped/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.bfe5648e1b52

[calguy]

1. Bernie's going to have a hard time winning even one primary.

Exept for Vermont, where can he win?

[left-of-center2012]

2. Not to worry

The "Anyone but Biden" crowd will continue their attacks.

[Control-Z]

3. Yeah, but

they're a very small (yet obnoxiously loud) group.

This time around will be different. We didn't see them coming in 2016. Now we know how they operate. I see it already. No more coming into our house and messing with our nominees. Not this time. In fact, never again.

[NastyRiffraff]

8. Most of them don't really mean "anyone"

They mean one person only.

[Eric J in MN]

4. Jennifer Rubin is a conservative Republican. NT

NT

[Cha]

5. She's a never trump and she's talking

about the polls.. where BS is losing steam.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. There's always an excuse why facts don't really matter where Bernie is the subject,

isn't there Cha?

Numbers is numbers. It's like - math. And stuff. Heavy.

[Cha]

11. That's their go to for

Jennifer Rubin.. who makes some very excellent points sometimes!

Maru

[Gothmog]

6. Great article

Link to tweet

[highplainsdem]

7. Sanders' support among 18-29 year olds has slipped quite a bit in the last few months, but

the latest YouGov poll giving voters multiple choices when asked which candidates they're considering shows him gaining slightly in the last week in that age group, while Biden slipped slightly even though he gained several points with the 30-44 age group.

As I said in the thread I posted about that poll, taken May 12-14

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287119730

Sanders supporters who've been loudly saying the youngest voters are the most important might be having some effect on them, winning back some of them -- and once again dividing the party, weakening it.

The argument that the youngest voters are the most important, flattering as it is to the most gullible young voters (and older voters whose preference aligns with those youngest voters), is toxic to the Democratic Party.

[Scurrilous]

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