ABC/WP poll finds Biden with 44% support from black voters, higher than in July

[highplainsdem]

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/warren-gains-harris-slips-room-movement-vast/story?id=65414558

Biden owes much of his advantage to blacks, with 44 percent support, about double his level among whites and Hispanics alike. (Results among blacks and Hispanics are from the last two ABC/Post polls combined for more robust sample sizes.)

Since they combined this poll with the one from July for a larger sample size, I looked up the older poll and found Biden was at 41% then:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/harris-scores-debate-performance-electability-biden-front/story?id=64092090

Notably among groups, while Harris challenged Biden on the subject of race in their debate, his support is especially strong among blacks, 41%, 12 points higher than it is overall. Harris’ support, by contrast, is not differentiated by race and ethnicity – 11% among blacks and an identical 11% among all leaned Democrats. Warren, for her part, has notably low support among nonwhites, 5%.

Unfortunately neither the ABC article nor the PDF for the new poll

https://www.langerresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/1207a12020Democrats.pdf

had an exact breakdown of Biden's support among black voters compared to their support for the other candidates.

But from this poll, it looks as if he''s gaining support among black voters, rather than losing support.

[Fiendish Thingy]

1. So a majority of Black voters prefer someone other than Biden?

Not exactly good news, especially as the field winnows...

[highplainsdem]

3. LOL! Biden still has more than a dozen rivals, two of them very strong.

So maintaining this much support among black voters is VERY good news.

[Joe941]

4. Not good news? Lol.

[Cha]

16. lol.. you wish?

[honest.abe]

7. This comment shows a complete lack of understanding of polling.

If this is not good news for Biden, it must be horrific news for the other candidates.

[yardwork]

13. That's an inaccurate way to summarize the data.

No other candidate has as much support among African Americans right now as Biden.

[BeyondGeography]

2. Up three points in a 5.5 MOE poll

Impressive.

[Scurrilous]

5. K&R

[BlueMississippi]

6. Must be heartbreaking to some

that David Sirota orchestrated "fossil fuel co-founder" manufactured brouhaha had zero effect.

[dalton99a]

10. What a ratfucking asshole

[Cha]

17. There

is THAT!

[DrFunkenstein]

8. Clinton Held a 24 Point Lead With AA Voters Until Iowa in 2008

If you base your candidacy on electability, then lose, it quickly deflates your rationale. Especially when the polls show Trump losing to just about anybody.

[Demsrule86]

9. Two people in the race and Iowa meant something then...no so much anymore.

I think Biden will do fine in Iowa but a small white state won't determine the nominee...GOP state at that.

[BlueMississippi]

11. Not a fair comparison

She was running against an extremely charismatic, intelligent and articulate African American -- a leader that appears once every half a century.

She was also the first female contender for the nomination who actually had a chance of winning.

Biden is, in fact, an Obama rerun because he served the greatest POTUS of this century for 8 years. People know that a Biden win is actually Obama's third term.

[emmaverybo]

12. Electability PLUS most job-specific qualified, experienced, and knowledgeable. A winning

combination. Only candidate with foreign policy cred. which is a significant asset for “the moment we are in.”

[peggysue2]

14. Yes!!

This exactly.

[Cha]

18. There's different degrees of "winning"

against trump right now.. and Biden has the strongest lead.

[Kahuna7]

19. You can't compare anyone to Obama. That man had charisma that

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I personally have not seen the likes of in my lifetime. His voice. I could listen to him read a phone book.

[Cha]

20. Yes we do miss

the Obama years!

[Cha]

15. So Grateful for POC who

don't pay attention to the m$$$$media crap..

Link to tweet

Mahalo, highplains !

[Cha]

21. KICK!