South Carolina debate watchers most impressed by Sanders (45%) & Biden (43%) -- CBS News poll

[highplainsdem]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/south-carolina-debate-watchers-most-impressed-by-sanders-and-biden-cbs-news-poll/


Warren was at 40%, Buttigieg at 38%, Klobuchar ay 31%, Bloomberg at 25%, Steyer at 24%.


With an MOE of 3.2%, the leaders in this poll are in a statistical tie.


Another finding:

Forty-seven percent of Democratic voters say the debate made them feel nervous about the group of candidates they have to choose from, though another 42% say it made them feel optimistic. Most white Democratic voters say they feel nervous, though most black Democratic voters say they are optimistic.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

1. They must have watched a different debate than I did

Joe was great

Warren had moments

Pete ehh semi ok

Bernie looked lost and flustered

[USALiberal]

3. LOL, ok! nt

[UncleNoel]

5. Agree on all counts!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. Disagree on all counts.

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

[Laelth]

10. I think Pete had his worst performance yet, honestly.

Far too often last night, Pete was trying to talk over others who were speaking. If you do that, you need to win the volume battle. You have to be the one who's still talking at the end of the exchange. Pete was NOT the one still talking after periods in which two candidates were talking at the same time. Not once.

It made him look weak, imo.

Edited to add: It appears he actually was weak. I just saw a report this morning saying that Pete was cancelling a number of Florida events due to illness.



-Laelth

[evertonfc]

2. I support Bloomberg or Biden but race is over

Unless one of the two are able to hurt Sanders on electability. His base is solid. These endless debates on policy issues are 100% meaningless at this time. It's an utter waste of time to debate policy with Sanders. He's good and it won't move needle. Warren, Amy and Pete are finished. Moderates are a much larger chunk in our party and nationally but we are splitting it. I thought Biden and Bloomberg failed miserably in attacking Bernie on electability even though they had decent debates. I'm not sending a nickel more to these guys. My guess is money runs out on Tuesday for all of them.

[UncleNoel]

6. I thought so, too. Was surprised he got good kudos from some commentators. I thought he was weak.

[LaurenOlimina]

7. That disaster raked in the money.

Nobody knocked him out. He made his points and showed he can stand up to the very questions we keep being told will disqualify him.

Bloomberg promised he had "disqualifying" information on Sanders. Where the fuck is it? It's the 11th hour and all that.

[USALiberal]

16. Getting worried I see! Nt

[peggysue2]

8. To me Sanders looked rattled and flustered

His face turned red and the wagging finger was all over the place. The unflappable Sanders turned noticeably flappable and annoyed.

All in the eye of the beholder, I guess.

[BlueWI]

11. Sanders comes across differently outside of the

DU echo chamber. This is clear from primary results so far and post-debate polling.

Democrats as a whole would benefit if we would all at least attempt to understand why Sanders has appeal. His coalition is more diverse than any other candidate in the race, and that's not by accident.

There are lessons here for any candidate that wants to build a strong base of support in 2020, based on the state of the electorate now.

[David__77]

12. I think that's right.

Should it happen that he become the nominee, I can imagine a huge sense on unreality setting in for some.

[BlueWI]

15. Yep.

Moderate and conservative Democrats are the biggest threat to a Sanders win in the GE too, if there's a lack of commitment to get a win because it's Sanders.

[OliverQ]

13. Yup, this forum is a massive Biden echo chamber.

Which isn't surprising since the overwhelming majority of people here are over 60 and still live with the Red scare mentality. Bernie has never appealed as well to older people as the young.

But he's winning most demographics in the country and has a massive coalition. So far, Bernie is who the people want. They just view Biden as another Clinton-type moderate and that tactic has failed every election this century.

[DanTex]

14. Exactly.

[HarlanPepper]

19. He had a terrible night.

[HarlanPepper]

18. Not one of the 12 person CNN focus group liked Bernie.