That’s a tie….
But it’s a warning to Joe Biden to make up his mind if he’s gonna run or not….
I’ve been saying the Beto IS the flavor of the month since his loss to Ted Cruz down in Texas….
The poll, IS somewhat early…
There still is a little more than a year out from the primaries …
But the process will begin to narrow down the large field of more than 30 vying for the 2020 Democratic Presidential nomination…
Candidates will have to get serious now….
The race, right now, IS between Biden and O’Rourke….
(Biden has been in the lead actually in every poll up to this one)
Things are bound to change….
But if O’Rourke and Biden declare ?
They will be the top tier….
It also appears that Sanders and Warren are NOT especially strong right now and Kamala Harris, who should do well in the early California primary , IS right below the top tier….
Outgoing Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) narrowly leads former Vice President Joe Biden as a potential 2020 contender among members of the progressive group MoveOn.org.
A straw poll released by the group on Tuesday put O’Rourke ahead of Biden by little more than half a percentage point — 15.6 percent to 14.95 percent. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) comes in after that at 13.15 percent.
A plurality of members surveyed — 17.89 percent — said they either didn’t know who they would choose in 2020 or that they preferred “someone else,” the survey found.
The straw poll results listed 33 potential Democratic hopefuls, although one of the would-be candidates on the survey, former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick, has said he will not seek the party’s presidential nomination in 2020.
The results bolster O’Rourke’s growing clout in the field of would-be Democratic challengers to President Trump, especially among progressive and liberal voters, who are seen as crucial to winning the party’s nomination…..
The link to the poll…..
image….The New Republic
Essentially meaningless, except as a very general indicator of the current feelings of a self-selected sample of self-consciously progressive activists.
Comparing fractions of 1.0% (whether twentieths or hundredths of 1%) is even more meaningless.
Agreed…..
A tie
But just for this poll
Every other has Biden up top
But Beto is second right now
Again?
Biden IS gonna have make his future known
As for the early view?
Well it’s not toooooo early
The sidebar says it….
A little more than a year has the primary and caucus votes coming
Money people are gonna be looking for the leader of the pack….
Most of the sweepstakes tickets holders are gonna be losers
Here’s the full list, directly from https://MoveOn.org [which to mind shows how silly it is to use hundredths of 1.00 %, instead of simple numbers; if A gets 67 votes and B gets 68, what’s the point of converting that to .01% margins?]
MoveOn itself says that the 18% who voted either for someone else or just plain “Don’t Know” is perhaps the most significant number.
“Here is the full list of results from our straw poll:
Someone Else / Don’t Know 17.89%
Beto O’Rourke 15.60%
Joe Biden 14.95%
Bernie Sanders 13.15%
Kamala Harris 10.02%
Elizabeth Warren 6.42%
Sherrod Brown 2.92%
Amy Klobuchar 2.75%
Michael Bloomberg 2.71%
Cory Booker 2.63%
[all others below ~ 10.95%]
Joseph Kennedy III 1.90%
Stacey Abrams 1.16%
Kirsten Gillibrand 1.09%
Tulsi Gabbard 0.78%
John Hickenlooper 0.71%
Eric Holder 0.59%
Eric Swalwell 0.54%
Julián Castro 0.48%
Jeff Merkley 0.42%
Jay Inslee 0.38%
Andrew Gillum 0.36%
Mitch Landrieu 0.35%
Chris Murphy 0.33%
Tom Steyer 0.28%
Marianne Williamson 0.26%
Deval Patrick 0.24%
Eric Garcetti 0.20%
Richard Ojeda 0.18%
Steve Bullock 0.17%
Pete Buttigieg 0.12%
John Delaney 0.11%
Bill de Blasio 0.10%
Howard Schultz 0.10%
Terry McAuliffe 0.10% ”
https://front.moveon.org/2020-straw-poll/
That’s a LONG darn list!
Wait!!!!????
No Hillary Clinton?