Who Americans want Biden to choose as his Vice President

Vice President Joe Biden, the current frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for president, said he’s going to pick a female running mate. It’s a popular idea. Four in five (80%) Democratic voters approve of his commitment – 74 percent of male and 84 percent of female Democratic voters, according to […] Read more »

Democrats named Biden, Sanders and Warren as their top picks 18 months ago. What did the primaries change?

Former vice president Joe Biden is now the presumptive Democratic nominee for president — after a primary involving months of campaigning, 28 Democratic candidates and over $1 billion in ads. Did any of that affect the result? Not much, our research suggests — but they weren’t meaningless. We’ll explain below. […] Read more »

The Sanders Coalition Is Not Quite What We Thought It Was

… A crucial bloc of Sanders’s 2016 voters is no longer a part of the Democratic primary electorate. The remnant of the conservative wing of the Democratic Party that in 2016 voiced its hostility to Clinton by voting for Sanders has now turned to President Trump. Many of these former […] Read more »

CNN poll: Biden has double-digit lead over Sanders for Democratic nomination

Former Vice President Joe Biden has a double-digit lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for the Democratic presidential nomination, a new CNN poll of Democratic voters nationwide conducted by SSRS shows. … The poll finds 52% of registered voters who are Democrats or Democratic-leaning independents say they want to see […] Read more »

Inside the 3 days that remade the Democratic primary

At Mike Bloomberg’s midtown Manhattan campaign headquarters, a team of pollsters and analysts churned out multiple tranches of data each day on the state of the Democratic race. The sophisticated data operation was supposed to be the candidate’s not-so-secret weapon, giving Bloomberg an almost real-time look at voters’ preferences in […] Read more »