Quinnipiac Poll on the Democratic Primary

[brooklynite]

With days to go before the Iowa caucuses, former Vice President Joe Biden holds a modest lead in the Democratic primary for president. Biden gets 26 percent of the vote among Democratic voters and independent voters who lean Democratic, while Senator Bernie Sanders gets 21 percent and Senator Elizabeth Warren receives 15 percent. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg receives 8 percent, Senator Amy Klobuchar gets 7 percent, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg receives 6 percent, and businessman Andrew Yang gets 3 percent. No other candidate tops 2 percent.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=3654

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1. I'm starting to thing we all better get used to the idea of Bloomberg as the candidate.

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2. Because?

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3. Because he's got a respectable showing already, and he is putting absolutely NOTHING into these

earliest 4 primary states. Everyone else is doing a dogfight for those 4 states, but those 4 states really only offer up a tiny number of delegates.

Bloomberg is letting them rip each other apart, and he is flooding later states with ground game and ads, concentrating on states that offer huge numbers of delegates. Right now he's alone in those places. He's got great ads and tons of money.

I saw him do it in NYC. NO ONE thought he had a chance. EVERYONE thought he was a joke. But he figured out the mathematical method that worked. And he's doing it again.

I'm OK with it. I hate some of the things he did in NYC, some of which directly affected my pocketbook because he hates unions including mine. Others, like stop and frisk, disgusted me. But I think he is an astonishing administrator and a very canny guy.

My take on this election? We have one job. Only one. Nothing else matters. NOTHING. And I think Bloomberg can do it.

My current bumper sticker says, "Any Democrat 2020." I include Bloomberg in that. I'll happily vote for him if he's the guy.