i've been looking at the democratic race and polls..
biden leads in most polls. but warren has had a pretty big surge in popularity (perhaps among people who would never have voted for biden anyways)
warren is now 50% chance to win democratic nomination, up from 3% probably 6 to 8 months ago.. what has actually happened to warrant that?
i will add that kamala harris went from 10% to 30% based on feistiness with biden and is now back to 5%.
here is the gist of my comments,
if you combined the progressives (warren and sanders for sure. not sure who else to add) votes, they would beat biden. but that is not how the primaries work and one of them will have to drop out to get that benefit (and then i think only in states yet to be contested)..
here is the latest polling data from the biggest states,
florida B+17
texas B+16
new york B+5
ohio B+17 (oldish data)
penn B+7
cal B+9 (or B+6)
wisconsin B+8 (old data)
michigan B+19
new jersey B+6
Georgia B+24
north carolina B+21
early dem states,
new hampshire B+13
South carolina B+33
iowa W+2
some liberal states,
oregon sanders +1
massacheusits B+2 (YES)
minnesota warren+1
and of course, all the republican dominated states still count for the dem nomination and biden is very strong there.
how can biden not be a HUGE favorite? only way i think is if someone they can combine sanders/warren votes at some point... but i assume they can't consolidate the votes on states that have already been decided... or can they?
thx in advance