DailyKos Straw Poll has Warren with MAJOR Lead of 42%

[berni_mccoy]

Currently > 10,000 respondents

Elizabeth Warren 42% (4447 votes)
Bernie Sanders 21% (2207 votes)
Pete Buttigieg 10% (1013 votes)
Kamala Harris 10% (1004 votes)
Joe Biden 8% (887 votes)

The rest are all under 3%.

See here:

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/6/11/1863974/-Daily-Kos-Democratic-Straw-Poll-It-s-hot-and-it-s-really-summer-edition

NOTE: the poll is relatively fresh and the respondents number is growing rapidly.

[Peacetrain]

1. Is that a internet poll???

Beware of it if it is...

[NurseJackie]

11. Yes it is! Clicky-clicky! Then click some more...

Vote-vote-vote-vote-vote-vote-vote-vote...

[crazytown]

13. I love that graphic

If the man in the moon were a baboon

[DesertRat]

22. lol

Perfect gif

[cwydro]

24. Lol!

Perfect gif!

[karynnj]

18. Daily Kos polls are polls where people with Daily Kos accounts choose to vote

This does prevent someone repeatedly voting as happens on many internet open polls. One problem is that the people who opt to vote are self selected. The bigger issue is that - like our DU primary results - it represents only the Daily Kos population. Note that in both the DU and Daily Kos polls, the numbers of people voting might be different than the people not voting.

That said, this is another in a series of things that suggest that Warren might be moving toward becoming the progressive alternative to Biden. At this point, even in the Iowa polls, that position is split between Sanders, Warren and Buttigieg. (Obviously, there are several not yet polling as high who could do/say something that moves them into becoming the main competitor to Biden. However, on DU, Warren has been moving up.

Given that DU leans to the left, the fact that Biden is still the strongest, might mostly reflect that the progressive side is split between multiple candidates. It is interesting that Daily Kos, which is not that different ideologically, is so heavily Warren. (Might be that that their format favors detailed, strongly defended, diaries rather that our posts, which either share an article or self written commentary. )

[still_one]

25. It is a bullshit poll, but it makes some folks feel better

[George II]

2. Online, unregulated poll.....

"Please provide your email address to vote. By answering this poll, you will receive periodic updates on offers and activism opportunities from Daily Kos. You may unsubscribe at any time. Here's our privacy policy..."

I have five individual email addresses, and many people have more than one.

[MineralMan]

4. Hell, just use email addresses from your entire contact list!

Daily KOS doesn't care. It will send out mind-sucking spam to all comers. It's all about the clicks, doncha know?

[George II]

8. I never thought about that. I have the email addresses of people that I used to work with.....

....people with whom I'd like to get "even"

Dozens of them. Andrew Yang is about to get a jump in the poll!

[mtnsnake]

10. It might not accept more than one vote from the same computer ip address

[MineralMan]

17. Or it might.

I don't know.

[LibFarmer]

15. I know people who have over 15,000 yahoo addresses

and they can run a script to vote for all 15,000 with just a few clicks.

[MineralMan]

3. Daily KOS Data Collection Straw Poll

Vote Here so we can send you bunches of emails to bring to to Daily KOS to see ads you can click on!

Vote NOW!
Vote for YOUR FRIENDS TOO


All we need is your name and email address, which we won't share with anyone - WE PROMISE!

[R B Garr]

5. I love these where I can vote 10 times in a row!

Be right back...

[NurseJackie]

12. It's so EASY! Clicky-clicky! Then click some more...

Vote-vote-vote-vote-vote-vote-vote-vote...

[still_one]

26. Iambic pentameter

[R B Garr]

32. I love that gif! It's always hilarious and appropriate.

[customerserviceguy]

43. It is too funny! n/t

[Butterflylady]

6. Well, now we know

The candidates DK is pushing.

[BigOleDummy]

7. Sure , its probably not very accurate, but.......

…… Scared much?

[samplegirl]

9. Yes she's the woman

who’s got the knowledge and has always had a plan with the middle class in her vision! She’s got my vote!

[LibFarmer]

14. Dailykos? hahaha

[mtnsnake]

19. What exactly are you laughing at? Do you think Daily Kos is a right wing site or something?

You probably don't even have a clue what Daily Kos is. Here's a link to it:
https://www.dailykos.com/

[LibFarmer]

20. ...

Dailykos is a wacky ultra-left wing site that attacks mainstream Democrats like Clinton, Hillary and even President Obama in favor of the fringe candidates.

However, it is good that Senator Warren is an overwhelming favorite as of today -- she would make a great POTUS.

[BlueWI]

37. Does disagreement always equal attack?

Wacky and ultra left... these are right wing talking points, are they not!

[womanofthehills]

39. Hello, DailyKos was a huge supporter of Hillary over Bernie

Where are you getting your false info? Kos supported Hillary. In fact, my significant other, who is a huge Bernie supporter, had to leave DailyKos, because it was so pro Hillary.

[Clash City Rocker]

28. I think we all know it's a fringe left-wing site

The kind that typically endorses someone like Jill Stein, and thinks that anyone who could actually get elected is too conservative. I don’t think anyone thinks it’s a right-wing site.

[shanny]

31. Now, that's funny.

Thank you for the laugh.

[womanofthehills]

40. Do your research people - Kos supported Hillary

It's a site with people similar to the people at DU.

[George II]

16. Some of the comments are funny:

I think all the organizational brigades for everybody but Warren will be getting tweets or emails or whatever.

Because why do the hard work of campaigning and building a coalition when you can freep an online poll?

A Gravel road to the Presidency would not go thru Daily Kos, even if it were a Gravel superhighway. That is a concrete fact!

You know it will change but Kos crowd will only count the 1st hour.

Good thing the Kos crowd is the only bunch who will be voting in the primaries this year

It usually takes a couple hours between the call going out on facebook and reddit and the results starting to change.

[LibFarmer]

21. hahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Codeine]

23. Ah, the internet poll.

How’d those work out last time?

[calguy]

27. OMG!!!!! Biden 8% !?!?!!

He better withdraw right away!! He doesn't have a chance.
*NOT!*

[YOHABLO]

29. Well obviously the poll is biased, but then very telling.

The left of the Party is liking Warren's tenacity and moving away from Bernie. I know one poll by Kos doesn't tell all.

[karynnj]

45. The DU poll has done the same to a lesser degree

Warren has moved to a close second with Trump, while Sanders has faded substantially. The one difference is that here, you not only vote your one user name, but your choice becomes part of all your posts.

In neither case would the poll be relevant for all voters. Both can at best project where their population sees itself now. Ours is better as freeping is not possible. From our poll, I think that Biden has been and still is number one shows how strong he is because there is no doubt that DU overrepresents the left. However, one FUTURE sign of potential trouble for him, if it happens, would be if the non Biden supporters start to converge between one opponent.

However, consider that both in 1976 and 1992, pundits dreamed of one ABC (Anybody but Carter or Clinton) -- and the opposition remained fractured. In 2008, where we did get essentially a 2 person race, is as close as we have come to that and, in that case, Edwards imploded (even before his scandal) and no one else ever gained traction.

There's still a lot of time and there is still movement poll to poll, but I think Biden still has the best shot at the nomination - almost to the degree that it is his to lose.

[nolabear]

30. Reminds me of the old "DU this poll!" days.

Ah, memories...

[Peacetrain]

35. rofl...

that is going back a ways

[highplainsdem]

33. LOL!

[DCofVA]

34. Warren supporters are not cheaters.

Daily Kos is not fringe. They endorsed Hillary during the primaries in 2016.
This poll has been one ray of hope in what has been a very bleak news day. Lets just leave it at that.

[womanofthehills]

41. Agreed, definitely not fringe - and Warren's numbers are going up each day....

All the women I know are for Warren or Harris. I love them both

Ryan Struyk
‏

New 2020 head-to-heads in national Quinnipiac poll just out:

Biden 53%, Trump 40%
Sanders 51%, Trump 42%
Harris 49%, Trump 41%
Warren 49%, Trump 42%
Buttigieg 47%, Trump 42%
Booker 47%, Trump 42%

[GulfCoast66]

36. Somehow I'm thinking that the DU poll...

Where every member has one vote tied to his or her name, is a much better reflection of where the Democratic hard-core Base is now.

[mtnsnake]

38. The Daily Kos poll spells trouble for Biden because it's a better reflection of who actually votes

in the Primaries than any general public media poll out there. So I don't blame all the Biden worriers for being so up in arms over this poll. I'm not surprised that Elizabeth Warren is topping their poll. It will most likely be either her or Buttigieg winning the nomination. Maybe Biden or Harris, but I don't think so.

[womanofthehills]

42. Good point - Warren has been amazing and people are paying attention

She keeps climbing up in national polls.

[ecstatic]

44. I wonder if the polls are fully capturing her surge

She got my attention when she spoke clearly and forcefully on impeachment. From there, I was able to really see her (Avatar style) and what she brings to the table. I'm firmly in her camp now--and I'm someone who was not a fan 6 months ago.