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bluewater

(5,376 posts)
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 01:36 PM Jul 2019

Fox News SC Poll Looks Really Good for Joe Biden

Former Vice President Joe Biden remains indomitable in a new survey of Democratic voters in South Carolina, a state critical to capturing the party's 2020 presidential nomination.

In a new Fox News poll released Thursday, Biden towered above his Democratic challengers at 35 percent, more than the share of support received by the next four leading contenders combined. Fourteen percent of South Carolina Democratic primary voters indicated support for Senator Bernie Sanders and 12 percent chose Senator Kamala Harris.

Thursday's poll is the first major survey in South Carolina to be conducted after the first Democratic debates of the 2020 cycle. Biden was widely seen by political commentators to have been bruised by Harris during a tense exchange at the Miami debates over his opposition to federally mandated busing in the Civil Rights era.

Harris, accordingly, saw her fortunes rise after the debate performance in late June where she was lauded by Democratic pundits for sharing how she benefited as a child from busing-supported school desegregation.

But her breakout turn in Miami has not appeared to break through Biden's solid grasp of the Democratic primary base in South Carolina, where she ranks third in the Fox News survey and well below Biden's lead.

https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-fox-news-2020-poll-1449015

The polls are what the polls are.

People should take the good with the bad (polls for their candidates) without criticizing unfavorable poll results.

If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for:
Joe Biden
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Fox News SC Poll Looks Really Good for Joe Biden (Original Post) bluewater Jul 2019 OP
So many people don't understand polling and statistics. SouthernProgressive Jul 2019 #1
Thanks! Scurrilous Jul 2019 #2
Until tomorrow when the polls will not look so good, then the next day when Sneederbunk Jul 2019 #3
 

SouthernProgressive

(1,810 posts)
1. So many people don't understand polling and statistics.
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 02:40 PM
Jul 2019

So many polls deserve extreme criticism. To claim otherwise is absurd.

Biden is currently the unchallenged front runner. That is what an understanding of these polls brings one to know. I don't think that is going to last.

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

Sneederbunk

(14,291 posts)
3. Until tomorrow when the polls will not look so good, then the next day when
Fri Jul 12, 2019, 03:39 PM
Jul 2019

they look good, then the day after that when they don't, etc.,etc., until Iowa where if he wins, the margin will not be great enough, and if he loses, no matter how small the margin, he will be washed up.

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