Latest Quinnipiac University National Poll

You can study the numbers and take away many different conclusions.

Two I came up with: (1) Beto O’Rourke is pretty much dead in the water; (2) de Blasio was never in the water to begin with.

Beto’s net favorability rating is about as bad as Trump’s, and that’s worse than it sounds, because Trump at least has 38% of the country who know him and approve of him. Beto, on the other hand, is largely unknown to the general public, and those that do know him don’t really care for him! To put it bluntly, he is at the Mendoza line, which for politicians is the Hickenlooper line.

There is nothing positive to say about de Blasio. He is almost universally despised. How the hell could he have studied his chances and decided to run?

Favorability among those who have an opinion:

Biden 56% (49 positive – 39 negative)
Buttigieg 55% (23-19)
Harris 47% (27-30)
Sanders 46% (41-48)
Kloubuchar 46% (16-19)
Warren 44% (32-41)
Booker 43% (23-31)
Trump 40% (38-57)
Gillibrand 40% (17-26)
Hickenlooper 38% (8-13)
O’Rourke 38% (20-32)
de Blasio 15% (8-45)

NOTE: Given the poll’s margin of error, Cory Booker is more or less in the same boat as O’Rourke.

7 thoughts on “Latest Quinnipiac University National Poll

  1. I’ve been following Biden since 1988, when he first ran for President. A likable enough guy, but something of a buffoon. Still, compared to most of the others, he seems like George Washington by comparison.

    1. I like him. Most people like him. He’d be a great guy to have as an uncle. That doesn’t mean he should be president.

      Then again, it doesn’t disqualify him.

      1. He’s also creepy as hell. Trump will just repeat the 2016 Hillary playbook. Have debate press conferences with every woman (or child) he was being creepy with, many of which are on video.

        Hair sniffer needs to pull out of this race and let Bernie take control, otherwise this is going to end up as a repeat of 2016. We’re still a year away from primaries, so these numbers will change substantially.

        1. Bernie could get some votes in the trump hating states, but no chance he gets any closer to winning than Hillary did.

          Remember what your president said at the state of the union, America will never be a socialist country.

          1. Socialism is a type of government. Voting a democratic socialist as President doesn’t change the type of government the US has. It’s no more than saying South Vietnam was a ‘democracy’ even though Diem was basically running a corrupt dictatorship.

            People get caught up in too many boogeyman terms. Socialism, communism, regulation, etc. I mean, we already have socialism in forms, what happens when some rich CEO sinks a company? People lose their jobs, the CEO gets a golden parachute payout, and all the cumpany’s debts disappear through Chapter 7. Isn’t that a form of socialism for the rich?

            Bernie may well not win ignorant Southern states, but it’s only because of brainwashed rural trash who can’t think for themselves outside of simple terminology. Look no farther than Trump already spending over $100 million dollars in golf vacations.

            Meanwhile Bernie Sanders actually *has* a plan to help rural America, outside of you know, putting tariffs on products that people just pay for with subsidies anyway. And this is what had this to say about Trump’s ‘America’:

            “Maybe I’m kind of radical here, but I think a farmer who produces the food that we eat is maybe almost as important as some crook on Wall Street who destroys the economy,” he added.

            So lets see, someone who actually has a plan to at least attempt to create jobs and fairness for the common worker, versus a guy who’s only gameplan is to punish the opposition and pay for it anyway. While he spends $100 million on vacations so far already.

            Call it socialism, call it democracy, call it whatever you want. But there’s one thing it surely can be called if you want to spend your money on someone’s vacation over helping workers, and that’s stupidity.

  2. I don’t think I’ve posted this here. It’s not accepted by all economists or psychologists but there is the concept of the ‘paradox of choice’ that when people have too many choices they either walk away completely or stick with what they’re already most familiar. With 22/24 candidates (Marianne Williamson and Mike Gravel are sometimes included and sometimes not) the primary is stuck, more or less, in stasis. This doesn’t explain why Beto O’Rourke’s support seems to have collapsed but it does explain why none of the non-top 6 (now top 5) can move up and it does explain why so many Democrats have coalesced behind Joe Biden.

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