… Biden has been the polling frontrunner throughout the early stages of the 2020 Democratic primary. Yet, as I’ve noted before, there are many reasons to believe his advantage won’t hold. …
The problem for Biden is obvious: the Democratic electorate is moving to the left. Whether you examine Gallup or the Pew Research Center’s trendline, Democrats have become a lot more liberal over the last 25 years. Gallup, for instance, showed that the percentage of Democrats who call themselves liberal has more than doubled from 25% in 1994 to 51% today.
But I would argue that looking at ideology through the normal left-right spectrum doesn’t get at Biden’s appeal. CONT.
Harry Enten, CNN