***BREAKING PALMETTO STATE POLL** Biden 48% Sanders 12% Mayor Pete 5%

[DemocratSinceBirth]

http://firehousestrategies.com/may-2019-survey/

[highplainsdem]

1. Link to the poll results at that website:

http://firehousestrategies.com/may-2019-survey/

[njhoneybadger]

2. Wow

[ananda]

3. It looks like Biden with a commanding lead ..

.. with Sanders and Mayor Pete locked in second.

Warren is a close fourth.

[dsc]

6. Pete isn't in second

I prefer Pete to Sanders, by a lot, but 12 is 12 and 5 is 5. Sanders is beating Pete even with MOE.

[ucrdem]

4. Oh darn

I was so looking forward to my new monthly Medicare premium and college loan remission tax

[Beatleman]

5. This is

good news !! not surprised

[dsc]

7. SC is one of the, if not the, most anti gay state in the nation

for Pete to have any votes at all here is impressive. Biden must be loving this poll because not only does he have a huge lead but the other two candidates are likely not going to be able to overtake him even if he loses support. If Pete were to take 2nd in Iowa and either 2nd or a very close third in NH he would be considered the other candidate to Biden and Biden would have to love that for SC. I doubt Pete can climb much above 15 here even in a two candidate race. He might not love it in other states but the hard corps south SC, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee are going to be very hard for Buttigieg outside of the major cities.

[StevieM]

9. Pete Buttigieg is not nearly as popular among minority voters as he is with white voters.

At least that is what I have seen so far.

That is why he is doing worse in South Carolina than he is in Iowa and New Hampshire.

[dsc]

11. He clearly isn't doing well with black voters

and that is hurting him there but he also has a ceiling in SC regardless of his ability to get black voters due to the anti gay nature of the state.

[crazytown]

13. 2007 - Obama coopted Donnie McClurkin

At the SC event McClurkin declares: ‘God has saved me from homosexuality’.

[dsc]

15. that was good, even if demaguogic strategy for Obama

I live in a part of North Carolina that is rather similar to South Carolina and the anti marriage equality amendment carried over 80% of the vote in my county and that was in 2012. Being against gay rights good politics even in our primaries in much of the south. I don't think that would work this time.

[crazytown]

14. dsc - Warren line ball with Pete in IA, NH

and does no better than in S.C. See below.

[dsc]

16. she is closer to her normal vote in SC

so if she rises outside of SC she will also rise in SC. I don't think the same things is necessarily true of Pete. Also Warren should be killing him in NH and isn't. That is a huge problem for her.

[Laelth]

8. Being Barack Obama's V.P. means something ... obviously.

Being "electable" (whatever that means) has consistently been the principal attribute that Democrats are seeking in their 2020 nominee. Evidently, Joe Biden has that quality ... particularly in South Carolina.

Thank you for posting these poll results.

-Laelth

[Baclava]

10. Your Average American Joe....running away with it!

Go gettem Joe!

[crazytown]

12. Sanders x Buttigieg- IA 13.7 v 11.4 , NH 15.5 v 9.7

SC 11.9 v 5.2

Warren v Buttigieg IA 10.4 v 11.4 , NH 9.1 v 9.7
SC 4.9 v 5.2

[Gothmog]

17. These are great polling results