Bernie Sanders could beat Trump in 2020

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Everyone is getting riled up.

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Back to the OP:

Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are both way more popular than Donald Trump
In contrast to Trump, Joe Biden’s numbers look fantastic with a 53/33 favorable/unfavorable split. Democrats love Biden, with 84 percent approving, and he’s above water with essentially all demographic subcategories:
  • African Americans love Biden, 73-12.
  • A lot of Latinos don’t know who he is, but those who do like him 46-18.
  • White people like Biden, too, by a 52-38 margin. Biden even does okay with white men (49-43) and white voters with no college degree (44-41).
  • Biden does best with voters under 35 (60-21) but also does pretty well with old people (54-33).

Bernie Sanders is distinctly less popular than Biden at 44-42 and, accordingly, is less uniformly popular across demographic groups.

  • African Americans (55-26) and Latinos (52-26) like Bernie, but he’s slightly underwater (43-45) with whites, faring especially poorly with white men (40-51) and working-class whites (38-44).
  • Young people really like Sanders (57-29), but old people do not (40-45).
  • Democrats like Sanders (74-13), but independents do not (39-43).
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Trump’s numbers in this poll are so bad that his favorable rating is underwater with white voters, who dislike him by a 46-50 margin.

To get a flavor of how bad that is, no Democratic presidential candidate has ever won the white vote since 1964. White men do like Trump (53-45), as do whites with no college degree (56-42), but white women (41-55) and white college graduates (37-59) really do not. Young people (27-68) hate him; old people (41-56) don’t particularly like him either.

Presidents recover from bad mid-session approval ratings all the time (both Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama had rough numbers at this point), but normally, that’s because an improvement in underlying economic conditions powers them to victory. Dislike of Trump seems much more specific to Trump rather than to the state of the economy, so it’s understandable that basically everyone in the universe is eager to run against him.
 
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One representative can't possibly understand all of the needs of 780,000 people they're supposed to represent

I'm pretty sure most don't really care what their constituents want it's all about them meeting the right people to get the info/contacts they need to get wealthy.
 
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I'm pretty sure most don't really care what their constituents want it's all about them meeting the right people to get the info/contacts they need to get wealthy.

Well, they care about the ones that funnel money to them! That's for sure!

PACs can be very bad. I frankly don't understand how the USSC ruled that giving someone money is equivalent to "speech".
 
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