It’s Easter Sunday of 2019, but many political watchers are already looking ahead to 2020 and who will win the Democratic nomination to face off against President Donald Trump. Many of the polls are laying out a pretty clear pecking order nationally and some familiar names are leading the way. […] Read more »
USC Dornsife/L.A. Times poll shows Joe Biden leading the 2020 Democratic field
With months to go until the Iowa caucuses begin to winnow the field, former Vice President Joe Biden is leading by 10 points among Americans intending to vote in their state’s Democratic presidential primary or caucus at this time, according to the latest USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll. The probability-based […] Read more »
Why is Elizabeth Warren struggling? Democrats aren’t looking for policy.
… A new Quinnipiac University poll of California Democratic and Democratic leaning independents finds that former Vice President Joe Biden leads a potential primary with 26%, followed by Sen. Bernie Sanders at 18%, Sen. Kamala Harris at 17% and Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Elizabeth Warren at 7% each. … […] Read more »
Here’s why you can’t discount Joe Biden’s early polling lead
A big question surrounding Joe Biden’s likely candidacy is whether his polling lead is built upon merely being well known. If it is, then you can expect other candidates to pass him once voters become more familiar with them. After all, Biden is a former vice president, and most of […] Read more »
The Democratic electorate is older, more moderate and less educated than you think
Listening to Joe Biden, you might come away with the sense that he is out of touch with the Democratic Party’s electorate, which many believe is younger, further left and better educated than it used to be. Indeed, the party’s voters may be all of these things. But, as HuffPost’s […] Read more »
A Biden 2020 candidacy would confront Democratic Party with its past
The Democratic Party of 2020 will face a reckoning with the Democratic Party of 50 years ago if former Vice President Joe Biden seeks the presidency, as he’s expected to do. When Biden, who’s now 76, was first elected to the Senate from Delaware in 1972, Democrats relied on an […] Read more »