Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumSanders says he'll slow down pace on campaign trail after heart attack
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said Tuesday that he plans to slow down his pace on the presidential campaign trail after suffering a heart attack last week.
Sanders spoke to reporters outside his home in Burlington, Vt., after going to see his cardiologist, saying he plans to do fewer events in the near future.
"I certainly intend to be actively campaigning," he said. "I think we can change the nature of the campaign a bit, make sure that I have the strength to do what I have to do."
Link to tweet
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/464928-sanders-says-hell-slow-down-on-campaign-trail-after-heart-attack
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ritapria
(1,812 posts)Biden 36% Warren 18% Bernie 15% What Country are they polling ?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Celerity
(43,382 posts)They poll the same self-selected group (some of them rewarded for participation) daily and overweight for mods and cons.. The Morning Consult is another flawed (far too pro Biden) outlier, as is the too-pro Warren Change Research poll. HarrisX also has Rump at a 49% approval rate, higher than even the discredited Rasmussen Reports.
HarrisX : Trump approval climbs to highest level of 2019 amid impeachment inquiry
https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/464072-trumps-approval-ticks-to-up-to-highest-level-since-december
President Trumps approval ticked up to 49 percent its highest mark this year, according to a new Hill-HarrisX survey released on Wednesday.
The figure marks a 2-point increase from a Sept. 11-12 poll, but a 2-point decrease from its previous peak of 51 percent in August 2018.
Trump's disapproval rating, meanwhile, dropped to 51 percent, which marks his lowest level so far this year.
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HarrisX is a large outlier overall (in both primary and POTUS aprroval polls). They skew too heavily to the mods and cons. They also poll the same people (who opted in) over and over, daily. Morning Consult does similar methodology.
https://scottrasmussen.com/methodology/
The respondents opt in to take our surveys and some of them are rewarded for their participation.
Biden at 36% with an 18 point is very much an outlier result. Morning Consult is the only other major poll that has him over 30 on a remotely consistent basis.
Also, this HarrisX had a wild swing from day to day in the last 2 days, with Biden's spread increasing by a highly unlikely 64% in ONE day.
This poll overall is as useful as the Change Research ones, which are just as bad in the anti-Biden bias.
And that CR poll is over a month old, so before Warren's true surge of the last couple weeks, I can but imagine what the next one will show (should be out very soon.) I will say the same thing (outlier) to Warren people who post that one too, as I am even-handed and try to be a fair arbiter.[/i
HarrisX/Havard Harris (same firm) and Morning Consult are clear outliers at national level, with flawed methodology.
clear trends that show this to be the case
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)They consistently show Chump with ~10% approval above what every other poll does (except for Rasmussen of course)
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)Here is hoping he gets well soon.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)Really?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
sheshe2
(83,770 posts)He plans two rallies a day, seven days a week? Not what the article says.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
HerbChestnut
(3,649 posts)May have been hyperbole, but he's not ending his campaign.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
TidalWave46
(2,061 posts)Does he have any scheduled?
I don't see in the article where he said he would start doing two per day. For his healths sake I sure hope he wouldn't do something like that. He won't last much longer.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BlueTsunami2018
(3,492 posts)The heartbeat away question becomes real with this news. But I hope he carries on, Ive always liked Bernie.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)but the main person is who voters will vote for.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
BannonsLiver
(16,387 posts)A lot of people seem to be in denial about the impact this is going to have. But I guess theyll figure it out eventually.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)And should drop out.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
PhoenixDem
(581 posts)One has to have questionable intellect to vote for a 78 year old with a heart attack and possibly unstable angina.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)Get well soon BS.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ehrnst
(32,640 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
That would be disqualifying.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)When needing to make statements like that, it's clearly time to exit the race. The truth is, Sanders was never going to be the nominee. Unless one thinks he can somehow do much, much better than he did in 2016 among POC, there's zero reason to believe he isn't essentially done by Super Tuesday.
And now that his health is an issue, dropping out makes even more sense. All that he's going to do by staying in the race is lock up a portion of the electorate that could potentially be the difference between who does and does not win the nomination. His following is substantial but he has a low ceiling, so all he does is essentially shrink the electorate. There are candidates who are polling worse than he is but have a potentially higher ceiling. If Sanders and a dozen others were to drop out and stop muddying the water, a race consisting of just 6-8 candidates would potentially change the dynamics of this race in a substantial way.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided