Biden Is Polling Better Than Clinton Was--and Has Five Times the Cash Too

[Demovictory9]

Biden Is Polling Better Than Clinton Was—and Has Five Times the Cash Too

Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton's campaigns were always going to be compared, with those who wrongly predicted a Donald Trump defeat in 2016 searching for patterns in their respective presidential bids.

In polling, Clinton was ahead right up to election day, while Biden finds himself similarly leading the president this time around.

Despite this sense of deja vu, there are differences this time out—Biden's lead in the polls is stronger than Clinton's ever was. He also has five times the cash on-hand she did at around the same point, according to his campaign.

In July 2016, the Clinton campaign reported it had around $44 million cash on-hand to fund her bid.

This pales in comparison to the amount Biden reportedly has at present, with the Democratic hopeful's campaign manager Jen O'Malley Dillon writing on Twitter there was $242 million cash on-hand.

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As well as this financial advantage to Clinton, Biden's polling lead is more solid than hers was.


According to FiveThirtyEight, Biden's lead is around 9.1 points as of July 15, calculated by assessing an average of national polls. At other points he has held a 9.6 point lead.

Clinton's advantage over Trump on the same date in 2016, according to FiveThirtyEight, was 3.6. Her advantage peaked at 8 points a month later in August 2016, the average showed.

A new national poll from CNBC/Change Research gave Biden a 10-point lead, with 1,258 likely voters across the U.S. polled from July 10 to 12.


https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-hillary-clinton-polling-fundraising-donald-trump-election-1518586

[jorgevlorgan]

1. The understatement of a lifetime

People seem to understand the stakes far better this time.

[Demovictory9]

2. yep. we can't survive another 4 years of lying, chaos, bigotry, corruption, nepotism, incompetence,

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. Trump has a record to run on.....and it is not a particularly good one.

And he didn't have a Lincoln Project and RVAT coalition leading the charge to get him out of office.

[Skittles]

4. Joe does not have to deal with misogyny

nope

[Phoenix61]

5. And years and years and years of being vilified. nt

[JI7]

6. And that was largely because of misogyny also

[Phoenix61]

7. Absolutely!!! A smart, strong woman was not to be appreciated,

she was to be put in her place. How dare she think she was equal to a man. I hope the young women appreciate the hard work those who came before them did.

[Skittles]

9. which was mostly due to....misogyny

[Demsrule86]

8. That is so true.

[SoonerPride]

10. This right here. The sexism was pathetic and maddening

Is she likable enough?
What did she wear today?
What about her hair?
Is she too weak to be president?


And on and on. It was just a steady stream of bullshit from the press which just fed off of and exacerbated the ever present misogyny and overt sexism in society.

Plus the several decade character assassination against her. And she still Won!

But in this time I’m glad we have a male candidate so we don’t have a replay of all that bullshit. Even though I’m the primaries I voted for Warren in retrospect I’m glad we have Biden so we can just focus on issues and take the right to trump on his record.

[Demovictory9]

12. She is younger than trump yet called "old hag"

It was maddening

[Demovictory9]

11. True