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George II

(67,782 posts)
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 12:39 PM Jan 2020

Politico: Biden pulls ahead in new Iowa poll

Joe Biden leads the Democratic field in Iowa, according to a new poll out Monday, two weeks before the Feb. 3 caucuses.

The Focus on Rural America poll shows the former vice president with 24 percent and the next three top-tier candidates bunched behind him, with Elizabeth Warren at 18 percent, Pete Buttigieg at 16 percent and Bernie Sanders at 14 percent. Amy Klobuchar clocked in at 11 percent.

The survey of 500 likely 2020 caucus goers, conducted January 15-18, and had a margin of error of 4.4 percentage points.

There’s some indication that Warren and Sanders suffered fallout from their recent spat — including during and after last week's debate — over whether a woman could beat President Donald Trump. Warren contended Sanders told her in a private 2018 conversation that he did not believe a woman could win, which Sanders denied.


https://www.politico.com/amp/news/2020/01/20/joe-biden-iowa-poll-101192

1. Joe Biden 24 percent
2. Elizabeth Warren 18 percent
3. Pete Buttigieg 16 percent
4. Bernie Sanders 14 percent
5. Amy Klobuchar 11 percent.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Politico: Biden pulls ahead in new Iowa poll (Original Post) George II Jan 2020 OP
If Biden wins evertonfc Jan 2020 #1
..the South, J_William_Ryan Jan 2020 #4
Yes, if he wins Iowa, game over. VarryOn Jan 2020 #14
Not quite that easy. I knocked wood for all of us, though. Hortensis Jan 2020 #20
Clinton had essentially wrapped it up after the first Super Tuesday in 2016 NewJeffCT Jan 2020 #30
They kept trying as in LYING that it was. Even after Hortensis Jan 2020 #31
and don't forget NewJeffCT Jan 2020 #32
Yup! That's the RW conspiracy excuse none admit to. Hortensis Jan 2020 #33
"...whether a woman could beat donald trump..." A woman DID beat donald trump. calimary Jan 2020 #2
a woman also beat bernie sanders..... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #3
Absolutely true! NurseJackie Jan 2020 #17
Even with the big help he got from RW/Russia. Hortensis Jan 2020 #21
I refuse to focus on her popular vote win because we shouldn't forget that she also StevieM Jan 2020 #12
Also the NYT, AP, MSNBC, CNN, and on and on. Hortensis Jan 2020 #22
Good point. calimary Jan 2020 #28
Well, we don't have that long to wait until the actual MineralMan Jan 2020 #5
The only way Iowa and New Hampshire would really matter calimary Jan 2020 #29
Great news for Joe!! Thekaspervote Jan 2020 #6
George II, thank you very much for posting this! :) Sloumeau Jan 2020 #7
As I said in an earlier thread . . . peggysue2 Jan 2020 #8
I suspect some campaigns had internal polling telling them that Biden is doing better than expected. George II Jan 2020 #10
Exactly, George peggysue2 Jan 2020 #18
Looks like the "Attacks" on Joe Biden & Dems BACKFIRED! Cha Jan 2020 #27
Oooooooo FeEl ThE BErN!!! Zeus69 Jan 2020 #9
bwahahahahaha!!!! George II Jan 2020 #11
Now this is a surge! R B Garr Jan 2020 #13
Even in some of the other polls released in the last few days Biden has gained 4-5 points on Sanders George II Jan 2020 #15
Excellent. Sanders is in 4th place in another R B Garr Jan 2020 #19
High time to get serious and vote for the candidate with the broadest appeal by the widest margin UniteFightBack Jan 2020 #16
I hope he wins Iowa...not that it matters that much for him...but because then we could turn our Demsrule86 Jan 2020 #23
Not only boomer_wv Jan 2020 #24
Excellent poll with a sound methodology NYMinute Jan 2020 #25
Go Joe !! KnR NCProgressive Jan 2020 #26
K&R Tarheel_Dem Jan 2020 #34
 

evertonfc

(1,713 posts)
1. If Biden wins
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 12:41 PM
Jan 2020

in Iowa or NH....this race is over. Those are not places he should do well. He will crush the south. I'm seeing this race start to move toward Biden

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J_William_Ryan

(1,736 posts)
4. ..the South,
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 12:51 PM
Jan 2020

the industrial Midwest, and the Mountain West.

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primary today, I would vote for:
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VarryOn

(2,343 posts)
14. Yes, if he wins Iowa, game over.
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 02:42 PM
Jan 2020

I wouldn’t mind seeing the race determined as soon as soon as possible. The sooner the focus can get lasered on Trump, the better.

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primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
20. Not quite that easy. I knocked wood for all of us, though.
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 04:13 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

NewJeffCT

(56,827 posts)
30. Clinton had essentially wrapped it up after the first Super Tuesday in 2016
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 12:12 PM
Jan 2020

but, the media kept trying to make it into a horse race for another 3 months.

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Undecided
 

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
31. They kept trying as in LYING that it was. Even after
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 01:53 PM
Jan 2020

there weren't enough state delegates left to win (this was months after experts explained it would inevitably come to this), crooked press still pretended Sanders was a contender.

After all, maybe an airplane would fall on Hillary's head.

Or maybe all his fellow superdelegates would agree to Sanders' illicit request to overset the popular vote and give HIM the election. And goodness knows he'd been promising a bunch of times to do just that.

Maybe Repub-FBI-RWMSM-Russia's attempst to take her out afterward, while Sanders waited for a month before finally conceding, would have succeeded.

Wouldn't any one of these justify the press's claim that Sanders could still somehow win?

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Joe Biden
 

NewJeffCT

(56,827 posts)
32. and don't forget
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 02:36 PM
Jan 2020

she was going to be indicted "any day now" - like she has been for almost 30 years now.

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primary today, I would vote for:
Undecided
 

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
33. Yup! That's the RW conspiracy excuse none admit to.
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 03:07 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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calimary

(80,700 posts)
2. "...whether a woman could beat donald trump..." A woman DID beat donald trump.
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 12:44 PM
Jan 2020

Hillary Clinton. She got more votes. Period.

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getagrip_already

(14,254 posts)
3. a woman also beat bernie sanders.....
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 12:50 PM
Jan 2020

by a lot.

If I were to vote in a presidential
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Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
21. Even with the big help he got from RW/Russia.
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 04:19 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

StevieM

(10,499 posts)
12. I refuse to focus on her popular vote win because we shouldn't forget that she also
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 02:40 PM
Jan 2020

had a win in the electoral college coming, and it would have been by a very comfortable margin.

James Comey turned that entire election upside down. Repeatedly.

His actions were illegitimate. That whole election was illegitimate and it is terrifying that we act like it was perfectly normal.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
22. Also the NYT, AP, MSNBC, CNN, and on and on.
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 04:27 PM
Jan 2020

The battle for power is huge, and they had and have some extremely big hitters. The RW plutocrats, Facebook et al, Russia, China, Iran, and on and on.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

MineralMan

(146,192 posts)
5. Well, we don't have that long to wait until the actual
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 12:53 PM
Jan 2020

caucus results are in. Then, we'll find out what Iowans think - at least those who make it to the caucuses.

But, Iowa doesn't matter all that much, really. Candidates will divide up the tiny number of delegates that state sends to the Convention. And then, we move on. Iowa will be forgotten three days after its caucuses are held. That's as important as Iowa really is.

New Hampshire, too. Just watch the delegate count on March 4. Then, you'll see how the primary campaign is shaping up. Until then, it doesn't matter, really. Not much, anyhow.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

calimary

(80,700 posts)
29. The only way Iowa and New Hampshire would really matter
Tue Jan 21, 2020, 12:10 PM
Jan 2020

would be if one candidate did a “grand slam” - and took them both.

That candidate would then have momentum and a LOT of press mojo going into South Carolina where it starts to count a lot more because of the size of the voter base.

I’m gonna be interested to see how the addition of California to Super Tuesday changes the calculus. California has moved up to much earlier in primary season so its motherload of votes will give its winner a massive leg up. As it should, in my opinion (as someone who is not a Californian anymore). The state with the biggest population and thus the biggest pool of voters should have the most to say about this. It certainly has a pool of voters with the biggest stake in this, and the biggest pool of voters to be affected by whatever happens elsewhere.

Frankly, with apologies to the folks in Iowa and New Hampshire, I still think California should be first. I still think so, even while we’ve moved to a state that’s closer to the end of the line, in size of population,than it is to the front of the line.

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Sloumeau

(2,657 posts)
7. George II, thank you very much for posting this! :)
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 12:57 PM
Jan 2020


Those are some epically sweet numbers for Joe Biden!



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peggysue2

(10,811 posts)
8. As I said in an earlier thread . . .
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 02:29 PM
Jan 2020

If these numbers are accurate then it goes a long way in explaining the recent attacks on Biden, the need to turn him into the Grand Plunderer of Social Security. I suspect it's also an attempt to deflect from the ugly spat between Sanders and Warren which has done damage to Sanders specifically.

It's getting ugly!

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George II

(67,782 posts)
10. I suspect some campaigns had internal polling telling them that Biden is doing better than expected.
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 02:38 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

peggysue2

(10,811 posts)
18. Exactly, George
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 03:47 PM
Jan 2020

Things are getting very tense as we head for the first contest. I agree, there are probably internal polls that do not look good for Bernie. Consequently, the campaign is throwing everything at the wall hoping something sticks. The most recent attack is claiming that Joe Biden has a big corruption problem, making him unfit for the office of the presidency.

They're getting desperate.

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primary today, I would vote for:
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Cha

(295,929 posts)
27. Looks like the "Attacks" on Joe Biden & Dems BACKFIRED!
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 07:31 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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Zeus69

(391 posts)
9. Oooooooo FeEl ThE BErN!!!
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 02:38 PM
Jan 2020

oh wait ... sorry, wrong thread.

Good for Joe btw

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George II

(67,782 posts)
11. bwahahahahaha!!!!
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 02:39 PM
Jan 2020
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R B Garr

(16,920 posts)
13. Now this is a surge!
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 02:41 PM
Jan 2020

Not to be confused with a sUrGe...

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
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George II

(67,782 posts)
15. Even in some of the other polls released in the last few days Biden has gained 4-5 points on Sanders
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 02:44 PM
Jan 2020
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

R B Garr

(16,920 posts)
19. Excellent. Sanders is in 4th place in another
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 04:11 PM
Jan 2020

recent poll posted. Oops.

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UniteFightBack

(8,231 posts)
16. High time to get serious and vote for the candidate with the broadest appeal by the widest margin
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 02:44 PM
Jan 2020

in the swing states......and BEYOND!

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Demsrule86

(68,355 posts)
23. I hope he wins Iowa...not that it matters that much for him...but because then we could turn our
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 05:57 PM
Jan 2020

attention to beating Trump and the General instead of beating up fellow Democrats...Warren and Sanders need to do well in Iowa...Biden not so much as I said before, but if he wins, then it is game over for the others.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

boomer_wv

(673 posts)
24. Not only
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 06:14 PM
Jan 2020

Would it mean we get the best candidate to take on Trump...

It also means we get a bunch of Jason Sudeikis and Alec Baldwin skits on SNL leading up the the election.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
 

NYMinute

(3,256 posts)
25. Excellent poll with a sound methodology
Mon Jan 20, 2020, 07:17 PM
Jan 2020

BS in 4th place is the icing

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