Scher: Biden regained 88% of what he'd lost since 1st debate, Harris lost 51% of what she'd gained

[highplainsdem]

Tweet from Politico's Bill Scher:

Link to tweet

In the @RealClearNews poll average, since the first debate:

* Biden has regained 88% of what he had lost

* Harris has lost 51% of what she had gained

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html …

[democratisphere]

1. Joe Biden has resilience where others don't.

[Cha]

2. What!?! This is Brilliant!

Send it to Cory Booker and Gillibrand!

Mahalo, highplainsdem!

[Kahuna7]

3. Rosario Dawson is in Booker's ear. It's useless to think he

will deter from attacking Biden. I think he's all in.... But I sent it to him anyway.

[Cha]

9. That's exactly what I think about Rosario Dawson!

Thank You for sending him these stats, Kahuna!

Of course he won't care

[Gothmog]

18. I agree that this is brilliant and should be communicated to Booker and Harris

[Tarheel_Dem]

4. But what happened? I still don't understand why. The M$M harpies were all glorifying Harris...

and vilifying Joe. Something had to happen to wipe out her gains, and none of these articles is explaining that.

[Kahuna7]

5. They were back slapping and happy dancing and had announced

decrepit old, Biden DOA.

[Tarheel_Dem]

6. Exactly, and for a minute, it seemed the Democratic electorate had bought into it. But something...

wiped out Harris' gains, and that hasn't been explained yet.

[highplainsdem]

8. There were two main narratives afterward that weren't favorable to Harris.

One was about the calculated nature of her attack on Biden, which the stories said had been long planned. One story said she'd "settled" on the "that little girl was me" line during the rehearsals. And of course her campaign followed her saying those words within minutes with a tweet quoting them and a pic of her, and by the next day they had the t-shirt out. And a moment that had briefly seemed spontaneous and genuinely emotional suddenly looked calculated and theatrical. The t-shirt especially seemed to provoke a backlash.

The second narrative had to do with her backtracking on various positions she was taking. Lots of stories about that.

And besides those narratives, Biden's supporters in the black community weren't that easily swayed. As has been shown in the recent polls.

[Cha]

13. Excellently explained, highplains..

Thank You!

[Tarheel_Dem]

14. Good explanation, but she's dropped back to pre-debate levels, and I thought for a moment...

that she was going to pose the biggest threat to Biden, but I predicted the sugar high wouldn't be long lasting, but her dramatic drop has surprised even me.

[asiliveandbreathe]

7. Bring back the sanity Joe...we have a long list of what needs fixin' and Joe has the

experience, and a whole army of skillful people to bring along with him..this is not to diss any other candidate who have their own set of skills..and ideas..which I am sure Joe will task them with when he wins the presidency....IMHO..

[oasis]

10. +1

[SidDithers]

11. But I thought she was going to suffer a huge backlash...

I read that right here at DU.

You mean she actually gained support from the debates?


And if Biden only got back 88% of what he lost, he's still down from where he previously was.

Am I reading that right?




Sid

[Vegas Roller]

12. Dredging up issues from the 70'sand 90's won't sink Biden

when his being a VP to PBO is the lasting memory people have.

Insinuating that he is a racist causes massive cognitive dissonance with that background.

I think the real beneficiary of the Booker-Kamala attacks was Senator Warren.

Instead of going after the Biden vote, both Harris and Booker should look at BS's soft supporters and try to peel them away. They may prefer a completely unwinnable candidate to a slightly less unwinnable candidate.

[StarfishSaver]

15. Doesn't that mean that Biden had a 12% net loss while Harris had a 49% net gain?

[Skya Rhen]

16. Correct - she is doing very well. Biden? Not so much...

[highplainsdem]

17. Yes, he only has three times the support she has, after all the favorable media

attention she got this past month.

[Scurrilous]

19. K&R