Sanders Popularity Plummets

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Sanders Popularity Plummets

March 20, 2019 at 6:43 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 182 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/03/20/sanders-popularity-plummets/

"SNIP....

A new CNN poll puts Sen. Bernie Sanders favorable rating at 46% compared to an unfavorable rating of 45% among registered voters.

“This is only the latest poll to have Sanders at basically even in his net favorability rating (favorable-unfavorable). A Quinnipiac University poll from late December gave the Vermont senator a net favorability of just +2 points. An average of all recent polls put Sanders’ net favorability at about -1 points.”

“Compare that to where Sanders was at the end of his 2016 presidential bid. Sanders had a 59% favorable rating to 36% unfavorable rating among all voters.”

.....SNIP"

[Talking Tom]

1. Here's why

I assume the drop is mainly among Republicans and independents.

In 2016, Republicans were going easy on Bernie Sanders, even pretending to like him a little.

Now they don’t have to do that anymore.

[Cha]

4. Don't "assume" that. Lots of Dems

are walking away from BS.

[WeekiWater]

5. Not sure that's the case.

He is currently in second by a large margin, like he was. He still has major electability concerns looming over him.

“just 30% of Democratic voters believe the party has a better chance of winning the presidency with him than someone else as the nominee. The vast majority, 59%, think they have a better shot of winning with someone else.”

[R B Garr]

2. Yikes, net favorability -1 points.

Plummet is a great word for it.

[redstateblues]

3. CNN poll has Biden up 8 points on Bernie

with Harris and Beto gaining strength

[Mr Tibbs]

6. He's risen nine points since February

And just today tied Biden for first place

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/434895-poll-sanders-biden-tied-for-first-as-orourke-gains-among-dem-voters

[Bleacher Creature]

7. He didn't lose my support.

Because he never had it.