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Democratic Primaries

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts) Sat May 18, 2019, 06:25 PM May 2019

Ceteris paribus which candidate do you think would garner more votes

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	A candidate who promises to try to bind up the nations's wounds
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If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden

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Ceteris paribus which candidate do you think would garner more votes (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2019 OP

Somewhere between these two choices might be nice Sucha NastyWoman May 2019 #1

I prefer a candidate who appeals to out better angels. DemocratSinceBirth May 2019 #2

Powerful!! Peacetrain May 2019 #8

Sounds like a Fox news poll. Pretty biased questions. vsrazdem May 2019 #3

There is no such thing as biased questions, only biased answers. DemocratSinceBirth May 2019 #4

From google. vsrazdem May 2019 #6

IMO, as of today's polls? saidsimplesimon May 2019 #5

So which of our candidates Andy823 May 2019 #7

Push-poll. Yawn. n/t Laelth May 2019 #9

"Thank you for your input." DemocratSinceBirth May 2019 #10

Sucha NastyWoman

(2,749 posts)

1. Somewhere between these two choices might be nice

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2019, 06:31 PM

May 2019

From the way you phrase the question, it seems obvious that you prefer the first one, which is made to sound moderate and healing, over the second one which sounds extreme and divisive

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

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

2. I prefer a candidate who appeals to out better angels.

Reply to Sucha NastyWoman (Reply #1)

Sat May 18, 2019, 06:34 PM

May 2019

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

Peacetrain

(22,877 posts)

8. Powerful!!

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #2)

Sat May 18, 2019, 09:13 PM

May 2019

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

vsrazdem

(2,177 posts)

3. Sounds like a Fox news poll. Pretty biased questions.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2019, 06:34 PM

May 2019

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

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)

4. There is no such thing as biased questions, only biased answers.

Reply to vsrazdem (Reply #3)

Sat May 18, 2019, 06:37 PM

May 2019

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

vsrazdem

(2,177 posts)

6. From google.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #4)

Sat May 18, 2019, 08:07 PM

May 2019

Survey questions are considered “biased” if they serve to prompt the respondent to answer in a specific way, preferentially answering in one direction rather than the other.

In this case, no one is going to pick the second answer, thus skewing results to the first.

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

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)

5. IMO, as of today's polls?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2019, 07:19 PM

May 2019

https://fivethirtyeight.com/politics/

"The game is on." From "Sherlock", lots of possibilities. imho

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

Andy823

(11,495 posts)

7. So which of our candidates

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat May 18, 2019, 09:11 PM

May 2019

do you think want to pour salt in our nations wounds? I for one think we have some damned good candidates and the majority of them "will" help heal the wounds, not pour salt in them.

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