MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS 'MORE LIKELY' TO VOTE FOR BERNIE SANDERS AFTER IOWA CAUCUSES: NEW POLL

[Hassin Bin Sober]

MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS 'MORE LIKELY' TO VOTE FOR BERNIE SANDERS AFTER IOWA CAUCUSES: NEW POLL

https://www.newsweek.com/majority-democratic-voters-more-likely-vote-bernie-sanders-after-iowa-caucuses-new-poll-1486148


The majority of Democratic voters nationwide are "more likely" to vote for Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in the aftermath of the Iowa caucuses, while significantly less said the same about former Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg, according to new polling data.

A full 52 percent of respondents to the Morning Consult survey, which was released Thursday, said they were leaning more toward backing Sanders for the Democratic nomination following Iowa's Monday caucuses. Of those, 29 percent said they were "much more likely," while 23 percent said they were "somewhat more likely."

Despite performing poorly in Iowa, former Vice President Joe Biden came in second in the polling, with 48 percent saying they were more likely to vote for him. Buttigieg, who prematurely declared he was "victorious" in Iowa, saw significantly less enthusiasm, with just 38 percent saying they were more likely to back him. Of those respondents, only 14 percent said they were "much more likely" to vote for the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor.

[Faux pas]

1. Kickin'

[highplainsdem]

2. 52% more likely to vote for Sanders, 48% for Biden, statistical tie within the MOE

[PatSeg]

11. Interesting

That's very close!

[highplainsdem]

16. Yep. Which is why I just posted an OP to correct this OP.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287482172

[PatSeg]

18. Love it!

[krissey]

3. I have been seeing these Sanders headlines for a while now. What Iowa told us,

is they do not play out. IF he won Iowa, a place he should have gotten a landslide, he only squeaked it out. I am not buying your headline. It doesn't prove out.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

25. In what world should he have gotten a landslide? Who said that? Who even predicted that?

Let’s time it was Within .2%

Who says it should be a landslide? I mean except for people trying to diminish this victory and make up expectations that were never there?

[Amimnoch]

49. That and Jason Lemon, the author is a major BS supporter and shill for him. nt

[krissey]

50. Ah, thanks.

[mysteryowl]

74. I felt it personally after Iowa and donated to Bernie.

[msongs]

4. how odd, 75% of the Iowa voters just told him they don't want him nt

[Peacetrain]

6. Ahhhh yep

[Hassin Bin Sober]

26. Joe Biden came in fourth and received zero delegates. Zero.

[Codeine]

53. I thought he got two?

[doc03]

5. Nationwide polls mean nothing. nt

[Gothmog]

7. I doubt that sanders will be getting any significant increase in African American support

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[Hassin Bin Sober]

27. Bernie crushed it in the people of color column. Joe didn't.

[Gothmog]

42. LOL

Where are the POC in Iowa?? Thank you for the laughs. You do know that Iowa is 93% +white?

Here are some facts to be ignored

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[Hassin Bin Sober]

62. It's always neat to see white dudes erasing and dismissing people of color

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[Gothmog]

65. In the real world, Iown is 93+% white

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[InAbLuEsTaTe]

61. No surprise there... Joe's poll numbers are declining among ALL demographics.

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!!

[ahoysrcsm]

69. We're number two!!! We're number two!!! We're number two!!!

[katmondoo]

8. Not all, I will vote for him only if he becomes the Candidate and I have no option

[BlueJac]

9. Honestly, with Trump branding a socialist,

Independents and never Trumpers will not vote for him. I am getting spooked that Trump wants that match up. Think this through, WE MUST WIN THIS YEAR, or we are done!

[polichick]

14. "socialist," "gay guy," "corrupt Joe," "Pocahontas,"...

Trump brands (slimes) everyone

[emmaverybo]

19. But what sticks? Depends on how much there there is and what scares off voters the most.

Sweeping economic reform—that may result in raising taxes on the middle class and losing good and affordable healthcare coverage for the unknown, particularly with an economy many perceive as doing well enough—could spell doom.

If the standard-bearer for vast reform and revolution is Bernie, we are in real trouble once the novelty wears off and he has to beat Trump in battleground states.

Respect for the movement Bernie, but yours as the face of the Dem party in the GE, no.

Not only will our so-called liberal media harp day in and out on your affinity for communists and socialists, the 60 trillion dollar price tag for your goodies bag, but it will expose your impoverished record of accomplishment, depict you as a beat away from a heart-attack, magnify your abrasive personality, reduce your AA support even further using your own words, and frankly, make of you a caricature, unpalatable to the majority moderates who make up this nation.

The upside? None. Bernie does not have a universally likable personality, communication gifts, great
accomplishments, terrific endorsements, ability to build coalitions among diverse groups and across the political spectrum. Bernie fits the broad American political landscape as an effective outside agitator for economic reform. End of. He will not ever be seen as presidential because, well, he’s not.

[OliverQ]

22. Biden and Ukraine is going to stick

more than Socialist. Obama was called a Socialist too and he did great. Wisconsin has a long history of supporting Socialists and that's our weakest normally blue swing state.

The Treasury just handed Lindsey Graham Hunter Biden's tax returns. You think the attacks on Biden are going to go away?

[emmaverybo]

23. Biden and Ukraine, without proof, is an abstraction. Sure Obama got the socialist label, but he

wasn’t one and not even for a social democracy model.
Obama was everything Bernie is not—comparing them in any way, by any measure only makes Bernie look bad.

[JudyM]

29. I really wish that Joe would've testified instead of refusing.

I get that he wouldn’t want to be under all that glare and treacherous mudslinging but at least he could’ve presumably cleared his record of this cloud. As it is they’re still going after it. Benghazi 2.0. Cretins.

[emmaverybo]

35. Could make a difference in the GE. Announcing investigations and holding prolonged show-trials

sure can be better than actual proof. But testimony might also have become a bottomless pit. If Biden is the nominee they can use Burisma. If they can’t, they will use “a woman has come forward,” “ As VP, the Obama administration did X and Biden Y,” any number of moves to destroy his candidacy, no holds barred and lies can sell better than the truth.

Dem voters must weigh risks, a candidate’s vulnerability to Republican attack, and how their positives might offset, whether a particular line of attack would tend to gain more traction for one candidate versus another, but with the knowledge that no candidate will prove immune, not to
attack or cheating.

Republicans will fight this one to the death. Losing spells death to their party, thus to endless gravy at the trough.

[JudyM]

41. The trough. We need to starve their plundering of the country.

The Burisma sitch is a good faux news hook for them because it looks similar to what we’ve been critical of them for.

I’ve been watching bits and pieces of FauxNews the past few days and it’s a disgusting pit, but interesting to see propaganda right out in the open like that.

[emmaverybo]

43. If Biden is fatally weakened, they move on. Personally, I think issues that affect one's own little

life assume a bigger importance than state crimes that may have been committed or not.

So Warren talking kitchen table and how she will put more food on it is on to something. But I am going to make this country into a social democracy and you lose your health coverage may play very badly, worse than potential conflict of interest.

Hillary did not lose because Benghazi or email server. A confluence of factors were at work, chief among them Russia’s cyber attack on our election. We play into their hands viewing 2016 as a case study on how not to win an election.

[brutus smith]

31. Did repubs ever need proof for their labeling?

No!

[questionseverything]

40. they both won iowa, so there is that

[emmaverybo]

44. That Iowa and N.H. go first should not make all the other larger and more diverse states

irrelevant. Admittedly they won, but very few delegates and their relative liabilities for the GE still exist.

[OliverQ]

45. Half this country doesn't care about proof.

Look how much damage emails, Benghazi, Uranium 1, and Pizzagate did to Hillary. None of that was proven, in fact it was all disproved. It still destroyed her poll numbers.

[emmaverybo]

46. I believe election was stolen. We do too much soul-searching over the candidate's baggage as if

this had been a fair election. It wasn’t.

[polichick]

36. Sadly, it might have already stuck.

[emmaverybo]

15. Trump and gang are salivating and making plans for S.C. Trump worked hard for this turn of events.

He wasn’t going to drop the master plan because of a little thing like house impeachment.

[58Sunliner]

10. Where is a garbage can?

[TexasTowelie]

12. So this is the extent of the bounce that Bernie can capitalize on after Iowa?

Despite all of the spin about Biden's fourth place finish he is still within 4% of Bernie who dubiously "won" the Iowa caucus.

[emmaverybo]

13. Now that voters are paying attention and Biden, rightly, taking off the gloves, we will see how

viable a Sanders candidacy is. The media must finally get around to him now. You are only as good as your last movie. NH might be Bernie’s.

[Gothmog]

17. Bloomberg already outpolling Bernie, Buttigieg, and Warren with Black voters in North Carolina.

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[OliverQ]

21. It's amazing what a few $100 million can buy a candidate

nobody wants.

[emmaverybo]

37. Well done!

[OliverQ]

20. Biden seems to be crashing, while Bernie is surging.

I'm really curious who Bernie will pick as his VP.

[OneMoreCupOfCoffee]

30. Cornel West.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

32. .

[emmaverybo]

38. Hard to top. Usual suspects: Nina Turner, Susan Sarandon, David Sirota... Cornell West Secretary

of Defense.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

52. There's a shocker!! Hahaha!! As for Bernie's VP pick, I have my suspicions...

Bernie/Elizabeth or Elizabeth/Bernie 2020!!
Either way, they're stronger together & can't be bought!!
Jump on the Bernie Bandwagon & join The Revolution!!

[ahoysrcsm]

70. We're number two!!! We're number two!!!

Gotta SURGE!!!!

[Uncle Joe]

24. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread Hassin Bin Sober.

[dsc]

28. Why do you insist on all caps?

It is annoying.

[Bev54]

33. I agree

Like it is going to change our minds. Reminds me more of Trump.

[Codeine]

54. It may be how the original headline was formatted.

Not uncommon.

[octoberlib]

34. Were these voters in swing states we need to win the electoral college?

National polls are useless since the popular vote doesn't matter.

[myohmy2]

39. "MAJORITY OF DEMOCRATIC VOTERS 'MORE LIKELY' TO VOTE FOR BERNIE..."

...I guess the 'Red Scare' tactics aren't working as well as some might have liked...why?

...because most people realize that Bernie espouses policies and programs that most of the world has adopted and implemented and considers normal and acceptable...

...because Bernie espouses policies and programs that people want and need...

...it's only trump and his radical-right that have a problem with Bernie and his policies and programs...

...anything benefiting the 99% instead of the 1% must be opposed by the 1%...

...Bernie can do it!...

[Piratedog]

47. Nope.

[HarlanPepper]

48. The caucus Mayor Pete won?

[greatauntoftriplets]

55. I'm not one of them, unless he wins the nomination.

And then I can look forward to four more years of the apricot hellebeast.

[Sewa]

56. Who did a majority of republicans that showed up

at caucuses vote for? That’s what I’d like to know.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

59. You really think repigs come out in the middle of winter in Iowa to change results?

That’s about as ridiculous as in Person voter fraud conspiracies repigs have been peddling.

It’s hard enough to get actual voters out of their homes in February.

[Sewa]

63. They do show up, that's reality

Like it or not!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

64. Prove it

[Gothmog]

57. Meanwhile in the real world

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[Hassin Bin Sober]

58. Wow, how bad is Biden doing with that cohort if he only received half the votes as Sanders in Iowa?

[Gothmog]

66. LOL

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[Gothmog]

67. @JoeBiden Up by 18 in New South Carolina Primary Poll

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[Kentonio]

71. You know that was before Iowa, right?

[Gothmog]

72. Bernie Sanders Support with Black Voters Cratered by More Than Half in a Week

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Independent Vermont Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders saw his support among black voters crater by more than half in a national poll amid a roiling controversy over his decision to brag about an endorsement by comic Joe Rogan, and stand by it after the comic’s history of bigoted remarks emerged.

Sanders was enjoying a bit of a surge with black voters in the weekly Economist/YouGov poll, going from 12 percent three weeks ago to 17 percent the following week in a poll that was taken two days after Sanders tweeted a video of Rogan praising the candidate’s consistency and saying he would “probably” vote for Sanders.

But in the most recent poll, taken Sunday through Tuesday of this week, Sanders’ support among black voters has plunged to eight percent.

There’s no way of telling exactly what caused the swing, but the Rogan controversy began to erupt just before last week’s poll was taken, as past comments by Rogan — including a clip in which he compared a black neighborhood to the fictional Planet of the Apes — began circulating, and the Sanders campaign responded by standing by their embrace of the endorsement in spite of those comments.....

Elsewhere in the same poll, former Vice President Joe Biden maintained a massive lead among black voters, but his support did slip slightly, from 46 to 43 percent, while former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg — who has spent over a quarter of a billion dollars on ads so far — surged from three to 11 percent, and Mayor Pete ticked up three points with black voters — from one percent to four. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren was the only other candidate in double digits with black voters, maintaining 14 percent in both polls.

[stopbush]

60. Count me among the minority.

[trueblue2007]

68. oh bull........