O'Rourke doubles support in CNN poll of Dem presidential race

[brooklynite]

Source: The Hill

Rep. Beto O'Rourke has doubled his support in a new CNN poll measuring the popularity of possible Democratic presidential candidates.

Nine percent of Democrats said they would likely support O'Rouke in the 2020 race, putting him second in the poll behind former Vice President Joe Biden, who won 30 percent, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who won 14 percent.

Both Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris (Ca.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) lost five percent support in the poll, with Harris falling from 9 percent to 4 percent, and Warren falling from 8 percent to three percent.

Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) finished fourth in the poll with 5 percent, the same level he won in October.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/421416-orourke-doubles-support-in-cnn-poll-of-dem-presidential-race

[efhmc]

1. Not a good choice.

Worked for him here in Texas. He is a great candidate and person but the gop will eat him alive.

[Crowman2009]

2. Yeah, I'd much rather have a Democratic candidate with experience.

Preferably a Governor.

[marylandblue]

5. Experience is a negative in today's environment.

It just gives Republicans more things to attack.

[Crowman2009]

7. Of course more people are catching on to the Rethug's game plan.

And aren't falling for it. Especially young people who don't watch political TV ads.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. I agree!

The Clinton's are a good example of what a concerted long term "vast right wing conspiracy" can do. It makes no difference if 3 million more Americans did trust her, enough others were convinced either she was a dirty criminal, and possible murderer, who put the country in danger with her email server use, and was negligent on her job as SoS to the point of refusing even to aid the Americans at the Benghazi government building, and maybe even involved in a child sex trafficking gang. At the very least....where there's smoke there's fire. And there was a ton of smoke. All they heard on monopolized RW radio in middle America at least, was 24/7 fake news lies about her, for decades!

That type of propaganda and brain washing takes time to develop. I'm sure they can do a lot of damage against Beto in the time left, but maybe not as much as they need to.

I can't believe I'm saying this because I'm a Bernie guy, but a Biden / O'Rourke ticket might go over well. Biden I think is too old, but he remains popular. if there was a young buck backing him up as VP like O'Rourke, I'd be ok with it. But regardless, Beto should at least be the VP pick. It would rally new voters, younger voters, and introduce him, give him the experience to eventually take the big job.

[diva77]

19. Only in the eyes of rethugs and rethug controlled media. Experience is a positive and necessary

factor for competent governing, IMHO.

[marylandblue]

20. I agree in general, but this is the world we live in today.

[diva77]

21. And we have the power to make the correction. We suffered in CA with a celebrity, inexperienced

"governor" who was a media darling and he ran us into the ground. We followed that up by electing the most experienced politician I know of -- Jerry Brown, despite all of the ridicule he suffered (most likely conjured up by rethugs). He was exactly what CA needed to clean up after pathetic arnold.

[marylandblue]

22. You didn't have to worry about beating a Republican

You had the luxury of knowing that whatever Democrat won the primary would be almost certain to win the general.

[diva77]

25. we never took anything for granted in that election

[marylandblue]

26. I lived there at the time, CA was already overwhelmingly Democratic

Whitman was an idiot, and who was the other Republican? Insurance commissioner or something?

Brown had a successful run as Oakland Mayor and Attorney General. No more Governor Moonbeam.

Schwarzenegger was part of the dying gasp of the Republican Party in CA, and nobody was happy with him at the end.

It really wasn't the same as the country is now. Now whoever runs will have to deal with a viscious, desperate Trump, right wing media, manufactured scandals, Russian interference, probably some illegal campaign activities again. Whoever runs need to be a champion campaigner and impregnable. And it isn't about experience because Hillary had plenty of that.

[diva77]

24. whoever ends up being the Dem candidate, I trust that they will appoint a competent and experienced

cabinet!!

[marylandblue]

3. Why would they eat him alive more so than anyone else?

[patricia92243]

4. Took the words out of my mouth. Obama didn't have a lot of experience, Other than

that - what is the problem.

[dsc]

13. and look at what happened his first few years

He spent so much time trying to get the GOP to work with him fruitlessly.

[DownriverDem]

18. Gee

That is what Presidents do with the exception of trump.

[dsc]

23. trying once, OK

but look at health care. He wasted months of time trying to work with Grassley. The stimulus had ridiculous crap in it to try to get GOP votes (he got like 2). The GOP, early on, showed they were unwilling and/or unable to work with him in any way at all.

[DownriverDem]

17. Maybe no problem

except if trump is running we do need someone who is seasoned. Just being young is not a good reason to support someone.

[question everything]

9. He will have to pick a good V.P. and stuff the Oval Office

with seasoned personnel.

[OnlinePoker]

11. Better seasoned people than the clown car we're seeing now. n/t

[msongs]

6. fake news nt

[George II]

14. "Fake news"?

[ananda]

8. Kewl! And support will only keep building for Beto!

He's that kind of candidate: energetic, charismatic,
and a great builder of alliances!!!!

[DownriverDem]

16. Just want to win

I don't really care who our candidate is except that they will beat the repubs. It's too early. The Debates will tell us a lot more about who would be the best.

[louis c]

12. All I want is to beat Trump...

...and Trump is running 15 points behind a generic Democrat.

You can not be any more of a generic Democrat than Biden.

I'm for Biden

[DownriverDem]

15. Way early

Personally, I just want someone who will beat trump or whoever is running as a repub. I really don't have a favorite at this point. I just hope it doesn't end of being a debate circus.

[Honeycombe8]

27. Maybe we'll have some new choices enter the fray.

I like Beto the most. But I am concerned he won't be as tough and ruthless with the Republicans that our new President would need to be.

I think Biden will be too conciliatory with the Republicans. He's very polite, by-the-book. He hearkens back to a time when the two parties could be friends. I'm not sure he gets how corrupt the opposition is now, and how much the Russians have infiltrated our government. But maybe he gets it. And it would be hard to put anything past him because of his decades of experience.

I don't want to go thru the Bernie thing again.

Not crazy about the others.

So maybe Biden? Maybe a new choice will enter the fray. I'm looking for someone tough. These Republicans nowadays are crooked; we need someone tough to deal with that. And someone who can't be easily fooled, because the Republicans will pull everything out of the hat to get past him/her.

[Gothmog]

28. Yeah for Beto

[Linda Ed]

29. What about a

Biden/O'Rourke ticket? I hear tell that was a good possibility also.