Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumDoes anybody remember undecideds being this high, this late?
Random polling question, but it strikes me. Roughly half of the electorate still has to break. Have we seen that before this late?
EDIT: Sorry, to clarify, I'm talking about Iowa polling.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
floppyboo
(2,461 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Sloumeau
(2,657 posts)I think, more and more, people are coming to the conclusion that who they choose really matters. That is a good thing.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PETRUS
(3,678 posts)My choice is between Sanders and Warren, and my vote will go to whomever has the higher delegate count when my state's primary occurs. (Of course, things could change, but that's my current thinking.) I wonder if there are others with tactically similar plans.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Let me clarify the OP
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
PETRUS
(3,678 posts)What do you think?
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
NYMinute
(3,256 posts)Is FOBO Paralyzing the Democratic Primary?
Iowa voters have a problem: They cant make up their minds.
Less than two weeks before the Iowa caucuses, there is still no breakout candidate in the Democratic primary. Instead, there are four frontrunnersJoe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigiegnone of whom poll over 25 percent in the state. Iowans, who are notoriously fickle to begin with, are outdoing themselves this year. Just 40 percent of voters have made up their minds on a candidate. Compare that to 2016, when nearly 60 percent had already made a definitive choice at this point in the race.
Even the New York Times cant commit. Over the weekend, Americas paper of record proved itself incapable of endorsing just one candidate in the Democratic primary. Instead, it endorsed two. If the Gray Lady cant make a decision ahead of 2020, how will voters?
What is happening here? Its simple: The Democrats have FOBO, or Fear of a Better Option.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
ritapria
(1,812 posts)According to a new Survey USA Poll released tonight : Bernie 26% ...Biden 21% ...Warren 16% ...Bloomberg 12%...Buttigieg 8% ...Yang 4 % ...Go Bernie ! .35 % of African - Americans and 44% of Asian -Americans favor Bernie in Washington State ..Source : Latest Polls 538
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
judeling
(1,086 posts)But you need a pretty large field to get to this level of undecided.
2004 was not far behind and so was the 2012 Republican.
But it is not uncommon in Iowa for a candidate to have a 8 point or more swing from the final polls.
Even Trump underperformed his polls by 7%.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
TheRealNorth
(9,481 posts)Its kind of a wash between Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren, and Buttigieg. There are things I like about each one, but I see weaknesses in each one too.
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Skittles
(153,169 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
pnwmom
(108,980 posts)(After I gave to them.) I'd rather see who's still standing by the time my primary happens.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden