YouGov poll: Elizabeth Warren is now among Democratic front runners

[earthshine]

Elizabeth Warren has made inroads among Democrats, especially liberals.

Just about as many Democratic primary voters in the latest Economist/YouGov Poll say they are considering the Massachusetts Senator for the Democratic presidential nomination as are considering Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Warren still lags behind former Vice President Joe Biden by just a few percentage points on this question.

The percentage considering Biden has dropped seven points in the last week, while the changes in other candidates’ percentages are small. Biden remains the clear leader among women and African-Americans, while Warren is considered by more liberals (who are a majority of all Democratic primary voters) than Biden or Sanders.

https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/05/29/elizabeth-warren-democratic-front-runner


Here's a video that supporters of Sanders and Warren will enjoy. Farron Cousins of Ring of Fire discusses this poll and why he likes these two candidates.

[tblue37]

1. Woohoo! nt

[appalachiablue]

2. K & R. She's working very hard, good for Warren.

[femmedem]

3. Omg. 52% say abortion should never or only in special circumstances be legal.

I've never seen a poll with numbers like that before.
I'm excited to see Elizabeth Warren moving up, but the abortion responses are so alarming.

https://d25d2506sfb94s.cloudfront.net/cumulus_uploads/document/bjppbczk32/econToplines.pdf

[peggysue2]

5. Find that poll hard to believe

I've seen other polls indicate that 68% of the public want Roe to remain untouched.

Republicans have pushed extreme abortion positions to the 2020 forefront. They'll regret that decision.

[earthshine]

7. Later in the poll, it says that abortion is the number one issue for only 5%.

Hopefully, that 52% will just bud out.

Anti-abortion folks are generally much louder than pro-life people. The "folks" need that in order to feel moral about themselves.

[PDittie]

4. I have thought she was

running third -- behind just Biden and Sanders -- for a couple of weeks now, pulling ahead of Kamala, Mayor Pete, and Beto.

[oasis]

6. When she began to fizzle, she adjusted. Expect her to shine in the debates.

[ecstatic]

8. I took a straw poll from ResistBot

after writing to my congressman/senators the other day. I had to type in my choice, so it wasn't a multiple choice situation. I voted for EW, then it showed that EW was in 1st place with 36% (2300 other people had been polled). That being said, Yang was in 2nd place with 34%, FWIW. lol.

[earthshine]

9. These are the two candidates that are clearly issues-first, and identity later.

Even Bernie can't keep up with Liz's plans.

Yang seems to put out interesting ideas every day.

But, I'm guessing that this poll is heavily slanted. Call it a hunch.