Poll: Biden leads among millennial voters

[highplainsdem]

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/434639-poll-biden-leads-among-millennial-voters

Former Vice President Joe Biden leads a selection of Democratic presidential candidates and potential candidates among millennial voters, according to a survey released Monday.

According to CBS News, a poll organized by the University of Chicago's GenForward Project found that Biden has the support of 21 percent of voters between the ages of 18 and 34. Coming in second is Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is supported by 18 percent of millennials, according to the poll.

The poll also showed that young minority voters support Biden. Twenty-nine percent of Asian-American millennials, 28 percent of African-American millennials and 19 percent of Hispanic millennials said they plan to back Biden, the poll found.

The poll was based on interviews with 2,134 millennials from Feb. 8 to Feb. 25 and has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points, according to CBS News.

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From the CBS article:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-leads-2020-democrats-in-millennial-support-poll-finds/

Former Vice President Joe Biden, who is mulling a White House bid, leads declared and potential Democratic presidential candidates in support among millennial voters, according to a new poll of adults between the ages of 18 and 34.

The poll, organized by the University of Chicago's GenForward Survey Project, found that 21 percent of millennials back Biden over Democrats who have entered the crowded primary field, including Sens. Bernie Sanders, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. Sanders, whose insurgent 2016 campaign was fueled by ardent support among young progressive voters, is a close second at 18 percent.

According to the poll, Biden also enjoys strong support among young minority voters. With support from 29 percent of Asian American millennials, 28 percent of African American millennials and 19 percent of millennial whites, the former Delaware senator led in all surveyed voting blocs — except millennial Latinos. Twenty-six percent of Hispanics between the ages of 18 and 34 said they support Sanders. Among that group, Biden came in second with 19 percent support.

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[RandySF]

1. Understandable

Young people who grew up under Obama now see what happens when you put "inspiration" ahead of keeping madmen away from the Oval Office,

[onetexan]

2. I also think they've gotten over the 15 minutes of the Bern

[BlueWI]

17. Sanders was a close second.

Why put so much spin on the facts?

Oh yeah, it's Sanders.

[onetexan]

18. not spin, it's the truth. The I'm-No-Democrat after the fact comment shows his true color

and much of the pie in the sky he promises is nonsense

[BlueWI]

19. Polling data from the OP

Biden - 21 percent
Sanders - 18 percent

These are facts.

You added spin.

And it's ok to be honest about that. This board is full of spin. But spin is not facts.

[onetexan]

24. Whatever. U're entitled to yr views

Im entitled to mine

[BlueWI]

35. You're entitled to say that the moon is made of green cheese.

Doesn't make it a fact.

I quoted the survey data from the OP. These are facts.

[R B Garr]

30. Actually, the "spin" has been that Bern has the youth

vote, no questions asked. Now we see that’s not true. It certainly isn’t wrong to suggest that youth are not feeling the Bern anymore, based on the original spin about him.

Look at how Beto is such a threat now. He attracts youthful voters, too,

[onetexan]

36. so true. The young people can discern for themselves the differences between Bernie & Beto

whose a grumpy uncle and a dapper younger guy...go figure

[BannonsLiver]

33. Why do you care?

Aren’t you an Inslee supporter?

[BlueWI]

34. I care because the difference between facts and spin matters.

We're the voting base of the Democratic party here. Why can't we simply support who we believe are the best candidates, and criticize other candidates where it's called for, without denying facts or pretending spin = facts?

That's what Fox News does and much of the Republican party does, TBH, to the detriment of effective political discourse and to the detriment of our collective ability to make good political decisions. I want to be able to rely on this site as a place where facts and candidates are treated fairly, whether we support them or not. So, sometimes when there's egregious denial of plain facts, I speak up.

[Cha]

20. I've seen a lot of people have..

on Twitter and on this board.

Thankfully.

[R B Garr]

31. +1000, looks like these horrific two years under Trump

have shown them that stability and continuity of government is not such a bad thing after all. All the toxic populism has gotten them nothing. They saw Biden at Obama’s side.

[redstateblues]

3. So far Joe is the only contender that I think can beat Trump

I like quite a few of our candidates but don't feel confident about how they would stand up to Trump's hate machine

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

4. There's very few who couldn't beat a novice like tRump...it'll be a cakewalk.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[redstateblues]

6. Just like last time.With that attitude it could a repeat

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

8. No candidate in this field would allow "a repeat," as you say.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[berksdem]

27. +1000

i think we know where that got us last time.

all this "cakewalk" is complete garbage. it is all about the GOTV!

[Kahuna7]

28. That's not true. The last head to head poll I saw had Bernie ahead by 2 pts.

And that before being vetted with the numerous videos where he proclaims his love of socialism and support for communist regimes. And out of his own mouth: "I'm not a capitalist."

[R B Garr]

37. Very true! Biden has way more skills and experience

to beat Trump. His knowledge base is formidable and he won’t get dragged down with socialism.

[msongs]

5. poll shows 79% of voters polled prefer someone other than biden nt

[redstateblues]

7. what poll? The last poll I saw had Biden ahead of the the whole pack

[namahage]

23. Subtraction.

In other news, 82% of millennials did not "feel the Bern."

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

9. Wow!! Little surprised by that.

Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!!

[Blue_true]

11. An unrelated question to the OP, since you are in this thread.

Many DU posters pick their handle based upon something meaningful to them. I have tried to figure out how you chose your interesting username. How did you come upon it?

[crazycatlady]

10. I wonder what they will think when they learn about the 2005 bankruptcy bill

The one that made it impossible to discharge student loan debt.

I also think this early in the game, it is name ID.

[Blue_true]

12. I also wonder how performance in debates will move them.

Beto and Pete Buttigieg are impressive at explaining policy in a riveting way, will that pull them forward after the first debate?

[CrossingTheRubicon]

13. Not all young people are so gullible as to believe everything is going to be free.

The politics of freeloading has a limited fan base.

[WeekiWater]

14. It's such an empty and old play that most are aware. NT

[crazycatlady]

25. I wouldn't call a solution for crippling debt freeloading

But to each their own.

[BannonsLiver]

16. A boutique issue

The vast majority of Americans never declare bankruptcy. They will care more about his ideas for jobs and healthcare.

[Gothmog]

21. Opinion: The myth of ideology, and why Democrats' energy isn't all on the left

Link to tweet

The vast majority of Democratic primary voters then and now do not identify as democratic socialists. Perhaps Sanders capitalized on unaffiliated anti-establishment types and Democrats who preferred him despite his ideology and not because of it. Move forward to the 2020 contests. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is providing the most substantive, interesting agenda that committed progressives could hope to see. Yet she is lagging in the polls. If this was all about progressive ideology and policy plans, she’d be running rings around the rest of the field.

As for Sanders, he benefits this time around from 100 percent name identification. However, the flip side of 100 percent name ID is that he’s no longer new, no longer saying things no one else will. He’s just as much of a democratic socialist as he was in 2016, but in the space of a few days we’ve seen that the “energy” isn’t all on the left; it’s drifting toward a centrist, young, optimistic candidate. Voters follow the energy and the ethos. They don’t carry around a thermometer gauging where on the scale of ideological purity each candidate rates.....

All you need to be is progressive enough to win a Democratic primary. Seeming more moderate than the Sanders clan is an advantage in the general election.

Why are pundits, the media and party insiders so convinced that ideological extremism equals energy/success? Part of it may be wishful thinking for progressives. However, part of the difficulty is linguistic. "Moderate” sounds to many ears to mean mild-mannered, prone to compromise and wishy-washy in beliefs. Nonsense. If ever there was a radical moderate, a fervent centrist Democrat, it’s O’Rourke. And gosh, he’s showing that can be exciting.

Biden being a sane moderate is a good thing

[CrossingTheRubicon]

22. I think America is longing for "sane."

We tried the other. It isn't working out so well.

In SoCal we swept of all five of the Republican House members from Orange County and the Republican from Simi Valley. All replaced by fantastic "sane" liberal Democrats.

That's where the party is getting its energy. It is a future we can build on.

[Blues Heron]

26. What about Gen Z

I really dislike this "naming the generations" thing. Is everybody under 40 a Millennial? Obviously the Millennial period is either over or soon to be - so what about the Gen z'ers?

[Peacetrain]

32. I just read this

[Talking Tom]

39. New PPP poll from Iowa

https://iowastartingline.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/PPP-Poll-Toplines-March-2019.pdf