Morning Consult polled Dems' feelings about 2020 after Iowa: Worried 65%. Confident 40%. Happy 34%.

[highplainsdem]

In contrast to Republicans, whose response to the Iowa results was only 33% Worried, 69% Confident, and 61% Happy.


When 66% of Dems are unhappy with the Iowa results, that shows a lot of dissatisfaction with the front-runners in Iowa.

Which is reflected in only 40% of Dems behind confident about the GE after Iowa.


https://morningconsult.com/2020/02/06/buttigieg-and-sanders-move-up-biden-slides-after-bungled-iowa-caucuses/

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I'm the 65%

Thank God NH is a primary and NV has 'cancelled' the app for their Caucus

[Iliyah]

2. I'm with the 65% . . .

[Autumn]

3. They'll get over it. Their turn is coming up. So... Vote Blue no matter who. nt

[highplainsdem]

4. Don't bet on it.

[ibegurpard]

5. they better

the candidate is going to be someone that somebody else loathes. Everyone's going to have to figure out something to like that they can use to get their friends and neighbors out.

[highplainsdem]

8. Sanders is better than Trump. I won't pretend he's better than the other Democratic candidates.

But any Democrat is better than Trump.

And I think I can confidently assure potential voters worried about Sanders being too far left that Congress, even if Democrats control both houses (which I think would be less likely to happen if Sanders is the nominee), would keep Sanders from getting too-extreme proposals through Congress. So we'd be much more likely to get the public option the less leftwing candidates campaigned on than MFA.

[Autumn]

6. They better, Trump is a known entity now. They vote for the nominee or else he stays.

[highplainsdem]

12. Demcorats had better vote for our nominee, no matter who. But don't bet on the majority of them

being happy with the nominee if the nominee is Sanders.

[Autumn]

13. A lot of people won't be happy with the nominee if it's Biden, if it's Warren, if it's Pete.

[highplainsdem]

15. Sanders is second only to Gabbard in that regard:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287479885

And you're going to have a lot more Democrats disappointed that Sanders is our nominee after the GOP starts taking him apart.

A lot of Democrats, including a lot of Sanders supporters, know very little about his background.

[Autumn]

18. Trump has spent time in his whatever it was on Biden this morning. The US Treasury department

has already been sent "requests for highly sensitive and closely-held financial records about Hunter Biden and his associates and turned over “‘evidence’ of questionable origin” to them"

That bullshit worked once. That's why they want Biden

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212959085

By the way. I know a lot about Bernie's background, so do most of his supporters. But like other supporters of other candidates, the background of their choice won't matter to them. And Bernie's wont matter to us. It's to be expected when a candidate has been in office or the public eye a long time.

[jimfields33]

27. I really wonder about Bloomberg more then anyone else

Will democratic voters really get behind him?

[highplainsdem]

11. Btw, my "don't bet on it" reply above refers to not betting on voters unhappy with the Iowa

front-runners getting over it.

I'll vote blue no matter who, as I've always said here.

I'll encourage others to do the same. I always have.

But I wouldn't become a Sanders convert if he won every damn primary. I think he's the candidate the GOP wants to be the Democratic nominee.

[Autumn]

14. I understand that. You described exactly how I feel about Biden, all you need to do is change the

name Sanders in your post to Bidens name

But I wouldn't become a Sanders convert if he won every damn primary. I think he's the candidate the GOP wants to be the Democratic nominee.

[highplainsdem]

17. So you think they GOP and Trump have been attacking Biden all this time, with almost every GE poll

showing Biden doing better than other Dems against Trump, because they want Biden to be the nominee?

Interesting...

[Autumn]

19. They're going after any candidate. That's what they do, while Trump is attacking Biden he's

attacking "crazy Bernie" and gasp... socialism. You know that's what they do.

[highplainsdem]

20. They've spent millions on ads targeting Biden.

[Autumn]

21. Because Biden was the supposed front runner. Whoever the front runner is whether it's Biden,

Pete, Bernie or Liz there will be millions spent on ads targeting them.

[highplainsdem]

22. No, because the GE polls showed Biden doing best against Trump.

[Autumn]

23. Polls this early are meaningless and you know it. nt

[Skya Rhen]

7. They should be petrified. In all the past polls, Iowans said that the candidate that could best beat

Trump was Biden. Yet they actually voted for the two candidates polling low in that question. I wonder if our goal is to really get rid of Trump

I can't wait for more diverse states to vote - ones with people who don't have the luxury to take chances and have the most to lose, if Trump is reelected.

[highplainsdem]

9. Caucus-goers really aren't all that representative of the wider Democratic electorate.

Especially with a huge turnover, a third or more first-time caucus-goers every election.

[Cha]

10. It's only one non diverse caucus state.

[denem]

16. Ditto.

[OnDoutside]

24. Worried 65%. Confident 40%. Happy 34%. 139% ???

[highplainsdem]

28. It wasn't a multiple choice that would have added up to 100%.

These questions were asked separately.

[OnDoutside]

29. I know, it just looked funny.

[Tarheel_Dem]

25. Count me among the "worried". n/t

[njhoneybadger]

26. I've Switched from Biden to Mike Bloomberg

We need a winner and I'm convinced Bloomberg is the only one who can beat tRump.