Presidential Race Tightens in NC; Cunningham Expands Lead

[brooklynite]

Public Policy Polling

PPP’s newest North Carolina poll finds the Democratic Presidential race in the state the closest it’s been yet. Joe Biden leads with 25% to 16% for Bernie Sanders, 14% for Michael Bloomberg, 12% for Elizabeth Warren, 9% for Pete Buttigieg, 5% each for Amy Klobuchar and Andrew Yang, and 2% for Tom Steyer.

Bloomberg is the only one of the top four contenders who’s shown positive momentum over the last three weeks, seeing a six point growth in his support from 8% to 14%. By contrast Biden has dropped 6 points, Sanders has dropped 2 points, and Warren has dropped 3 points. The other candidates on a positive trajectory in the state are Buttigieg who’s gone up 3 points, and Klobuchar who’s gained 2 points.

African American voters continue to be the key to Biden’s advantage in the Tar Heel state. He’s at 39% with them to 12% for Bloomberg and 10% for Sanders. That allows him to break out of a logjam with white voters where he and Sanders are both at 18%, with Bloomberg and Warren each at 15% not far behind. There’s a huge generational divide- among seniors Biden gets 35% and Bloomberg 21% with no one else over 8%. But among young voters Sanders gets 27% with Biden and Warren and 16%, and Bloomberg actually running 5th at 9% behind Andrew Yang who gets 10% in that demographic.

In the crosstabs, Bloomberg getting 12% of African Americans vs 39 for Biden and 10 for Sanders

[Iliyah]

1. Bloomberg is the one to look out for . . .

He has the means, and he will use it. I'm fine with that. My first goal is to defeat shithole and his cult members.

[Mike 03]

2. A parenthetical question: I don't understand why Mayor Pete isn't getting more of the younger

voters.