Decoding the polls: Sanders surging and more takeaways from the newest numbers

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Politico

The Vermont senator is enjoying possibly his best week of polling at just the right time in the 2020 race.

By STEVEN SHEPARD

01/23/2020 06:45 PM EST

Bernie Sanders has been in the middle of every spat and squabble in the past few weeks of the Democratic presidential primary — and it seems to be working for him.

Sanders has surged in the handful of public polls out this week, a bounce that’s coming just at the right time for the Vermont senator, with voting set to begin soon in Iowa and other states. A CNN/SSRS national poll showed Sanders narrowly overtaking Joe Biden among Democratic voters for the first time. In New Hampshire — the site of a blowout primary win for Sanders in 2016 — a new poll shows him with a large plurality lead over the 2020 field.

The polls aren’t unanimous in showing a Sanders bump: Biden still leads polling averages nationally and in the Feb. 3 Iowa caucuses, where there has been little public polling so far this week.

But, on balance, the new survey data out this week have been some of Sanders’ best, even amid recent public tiffs with Elizabeth Warren, Hillary Clinton and Biden — and also as Sanders is trapped in Washington during President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial.

Here are three more things we’ve learned from this week’s polls:

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[Tiggeroshii]

1. Kick and rec

Thanks for the post, Joe!

[zackymilly]

2. Feel the Bern! nt

[oldsoftie]

3. In other news, Sanders leads in Vermont.

[msongs]

4. lol politico, graveyard of the worst journalists nt

[CentralMass]

5. Nice.

[katmondoo]

6. He always leads every week.

[Thekaspervote]

7. Leads in VT...yes!!