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2016 Postmortem

99th_Monkey

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5. Not necessarily. I know that is commonly assumed

Reply to TexasTowelie (Reply #2)

Thu Oct 1, 2015, 06:25 PM

Oct 2015

but part of the Biden numbers have to be "anyone but Hillary" .. so I suspect Biden numbers
are more or less evenly split between Clinton & Sanders, which would make it 43 Clinton / 32 Sanders,
with an 11 point spread.

What galls me is we are left to guess about this shit, rather than having pollsters that only list
ACTUAL candidates.

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Texas Lyceum Poll: Clinton 36%, Sanders 24%, Biden 15% [View all] TexasTowelie Oct 2015 OP

Why do polsters insist on including NON-candidate Biden? 99th_Monkey Oct 2015 #1

I suspect that most of the support will break towards Clinton rather than Sanders TexasTowelie Oct 2015 #2

Not necessarily. I know that is commonly assumed 99th_Monkey Oct 2015 #5

52% approval for Obama in Texas? BlueWaveDem Oct 2015 #3

That is actually stunningly good for Sanders in TX LondonReign2 Oct 2015 #4

He's been doing that in a lot of states :) nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #6

He made, what, two campaign stops in Texas? LondonReign2 Oct 2015 #7

The free brain slugs help too! ;) Erich Bloodaxe BSN Oct 2015 #9

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #8

Certainly with that small of a sample it does lead TexasTowelie Oct 2015 #10

Impressive that Obama has a 52% approval rating in Texas--higher than his national average book_worm Oct 2015 #11

Here is how that broke down: TexasTowelie Oct 2015 #12