Joe Biden keeps his black support in the state that could give him the nomination clinch early…
This is AFTER the the debate that seems to have given Kamala Harris a ‘bounce’ in the polls that is fading away already….
South Carolina IS a black vote state that has picked the nominee in the last few elections….
South Carolina Democratic primary voters, more than half of whom are expected to be African American, say former Vice President Joe Biden is the best candidate to handle racial issues. Even among black voters, he bests California Sen. Kamala Harris, who pressed Biden on the issue during the first Democratic debate. Biden apologized for remarks he made about working with segregationist senators in the 1970s at a Saturday campaign event in Sumter, S.C.
A Fox News Poll released Thursday finds Biden leading on an array of other key issues as well.
Overall, Biden garners 35 percent among South Carolina Democratic primary voters in the race for the party’s nomination — over twice the support of any other candidate. Bernie Sanders receives 14 percent and Kamala Harris is close behind at 12 percent….
Note…
As in almost every other poll?
Electability is Joe Biden’s trump card among Democrats….
And THAT is by a wide margin of the rest of the candidates….
image…thestate.com
If Biden clinches Iowa, Nevada, SC and California ?
It’s his that early….
You DID see this Jack?
I did.
And ,if the primary were held today,Biden would probably win.
It’s not though.Indeed there is a long seven months before it happens.
All candidates ,including Biden, are still building their organizations.Harris,in particular, according to the local press, already has the largest staff of any of the candidates.
I know you hate hearing this ,but it is still early and much of Bidens support is more on name recognition than anything else.He does have a history here and a lot of support ,not only among party regulars ,but many prominent Black politicos.
He has a good chance right now,but right now doesn’t count.Show me some polls after Iowa and New Hampshire.This one?
Of some minor interest I suppose.It certainly got your attention.
There’s only been passing reference made so far of Sen. Biden’s votes for the use of force against Iraq in 2002, and for the omnibus Crime Bill in 1994.
As debates and campaigns progress, I can see absolutely no way that these votes (either forgotten or never known by the average Democratic voter) will not become very public issues, and (unlike how Biden describes his sometime-collaborators in the 1960’s) genuine issues.
it WILL be how he handles his past actions DSD….
Yep….
He, he, he….
i don’t hate to hear it….
i believe he IS the right guy for the job and have made no secret of my view….
Biden is my favorite candidate right now too,mainly because he appears,as of now, the best candidate to defeat Trump.
That’s what I’m looking for in a candidate.
I don’t get into all these “issues.”The proposals being made by the so called “progressive” candidates are going nowhere and everyone knows it.They are merely talking points to rally their supporters.I take all their sound and fury with a grain of salt.
My favorite candidates beside Biden are :Amy Klobuchar,Steve Bullock, Tim Ryan, John Hickenlooper, and Seth Moulton.
None of them ,besides Klobuchar ,has any chance and they will likely be gone before Iowa.
Klobuchar has some very minor chance in that she could emerge as the establishment choice if Biden were to collapse.She would,I think, be a strong General Election candidate too.
I’m also impressed by Amy Klobuchar, even if I incline to the more-progressive side, because she makes cogent and unemotional arguments for her more gradual and moderate approach,
Perhaps, being from Minnesota, she gained some of that skill dealing with all the trends, movements, constituencies and traditions within the Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
So I’m surprised by her relatively weak showing so far. Maybe it’s her low-key, Minnesota-nice style, competing for money and attention with more strident voices. How would Garrison Keillor do in a Democratic primary ? About as well as Harold Stassen in a Republican one ? On the other hand, Minnesota has punched far above her weight in offering presidential and vice-presidential timber: Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale and Eugene McCarthy.
Can’t be low-key
Ya don’t get media attention…
look at Trump….
Bull Shit has always served him well even if he ain’t whatever
Yeah it’s too bad Klobuchar hasn’t gotten more traction..
In my view,she would make better candidate in the General Election than either Harris or Warren and a Much better President.
However ,James is correct .Her qualities are not in vogue now.Shrillness and increasingly wild remarks predominate nowadays in the Age Of Trump.
Interestingly though, the same applies to Biden.He may become a victim of this new norm.
Of course,I would still support Harris or Warren over Trump(that’s not saying much, there are very few people I wouldn’t support over the demagogue) but with no particular enthusiasm.
You’re basically saying, James, that if Biden runs the table, with the exception of New Hampshire, then he’s clinched the nomination.
Of course, that would be true of any candidate running after California wrenched her presidential primary from nearly the end of the Democratic cycle to nearly the beginning.
Yea….
I say that because he’s AHEAD less than 7 months out from the first votes…
I say that because he has the most money…
I say that because he has the black and moderate vote across the board…
BUT?
If he don’t get his act together in the c coming debates?
I COULD BE WRONG….
Biden AND Sanders out poll Harris in California I believe right now….
By the numbers ?
With what I have said…
It would be almost impossible for the others to catch Biden, who would have the media wind at his back….