Democratic Primaries
Related: About this forumSanders' gains with black voters are a big deal heading into the race's next phase
A new NBC News/Wall Street Journal oversample of black voters finds that Sanders now essentially enjoys the same level of support as Biden among black Democratic primary voters, with each getting the backing of about a third, while no other Democratic candidate comes anywhere close to that.
In fact, the only other candidate demonstrating even a small sign of traction nationally among black primary voters appears to be former NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg, and well note that the poll was in the field before his pummeling over the stop-and-frisk policy on the debate stage Wednesday night.
Whats more, all registered black voters express about the same level of comfort about Sanders as they do about Biden.
A combined 65 percent are either enthusiastic (20 percent) or comfortable (45 percent) with Sanders, while a combined 30 percent express some discomfort. For Biden, its a combined 69 percent either enthusiastic (16 percent) or comfortable (53 percent), with 28 percent feeling more negative.
Much of Sanders strength here has to do with the same generational differences that weve seen among the electorate at large. The lions share of Sanders support among black primary voters comes from his standing with those under 50, while Biden gets by far the largest share of older African Americans.
SOURCE: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/sanders-gains-black-voters-are-big-deal-heading-race-s-n1140261
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
JudyM
(29,251 posts)Are you suggesting poll results are being manipulated?
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Demsrule86
(68,593 posts)now on with the Russian news...and you have GOP voting for him at Trump's behest.
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David__77
(23,423 posts)Or that the research firms are infiltrated/controlled by Russians?
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Renew Deal
(81,866 posts)And then things will get real.
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uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... giving up classified information.
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