Pete Buttigieg continues to surge in N.H. polling

[redleghunter]

Breaking News!

Looks like Mayor Pete is not going away any time soon. All that campaigning he accomplished with Warren and Sanders sitting through Adam Schiff 'story time.' And Joe Biden still figuring out what state he was in.

Excerpt from the article:

Former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg, building on his strong showing in the Iowa caucuses, continued his surge among likely Democratic New Hampshire presidential primary voters, putting him and Senator Bernie Sanders in a statistical dead heat in a Boston Globe/WBZ-TV/Suffolk University poll released Thursday night.

Former vice president Joe Biden, whose campaign is stumbling after a disappointing fourth-place finish in Iowa, saw another modest dip in his numbers. That put him in fourth place behind Senator Elizabeth Warren in Thursday’s poll, the fourth of seven the Suffolk University Political Research Center is conducting in the run-up to the nation’s first primary on Tuesday.

Sanders held steady at 24 percent, while Buttigieg nipped at his heels with 23 percent. Biden slipped to 11 percent, below Warren’s 13 percent.​

More at the link: Pete Buttigieg continues to surge in N.H. polling - The Boston Globe

Check out the graph in the linked article above. Mayor Pete's rise in the polls is quite impressive.

 

[redleghunter]

11% still undecided and could change things a bit. Maybe the NH vote counting will be better.

 

[Jermayn]

Breaking News!

Looks like Mayor Pete is not going away any time soon. All that campaigning he accomplished with Warren and Sanders sitting through Adam Schiff 'story time.' And Joe Biden still figuring out what state he was in.

Excerpt from the article:

Former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg, building on his strong showing in the Iowa caucuses, continued his surge among likely Democratic New Hampshire presidential primary voters, putting him and Senator Bernie Sanders in a statistical dead heat in a Boston Globe/WBZ-TV/Suffolk University poll released Thursday night.

Former vice president Joe Biden, whose campaign is stumbling after a disappointing fourth-place finish in Iowa, saw another modest dip in his numbers. That put him in fourth place behind Senator Elizabeth Warren in Thursday’s poll, the fourth of seven the Suffolk University Political Research Center is conducting in the run-up to the nation’s first primary on Tuesday.

Sanders held steady at 24 percent, while Buttigieg nipped at his heels with 23 percent. Biden slipped to 11 percent, below Warren’s 13 percent.​

More at the link: Pete Buttigieg continues to surge in N.H. polling - The Boston Globe

Check out the graph in the linked article above. Mayor Pete's rise in the polls is quite impressive.

I wonder if the Bernie Sanders supporters are willing to get behind any other candidate? Just browsing through some of the Sanders subreddits, they've already given him the nickname "Mayor Cheat" and many are saying they will vote for Trump in spite of any democrat nominee besides Sanders. Looks like the Democratic Party has shot themselves in the foot no matter who gets the nomination.

 

[JohnAshton]

All Dems, and all Bern supporters, were support the Dem candidate.

Nothing is more important that Trump leaving office.

 

[Hank77]

I wonder if the Bernie Sanders supporters are willing to get behind any other candidate? Just browsing through some of the Sanders subreddits, they've already given him the nickname "Mayor Cheat" and many are saying they will vote for Trump in spite of any democrat nominee besides Sanders. Looks like the Democratic Party has shot themselves in the foot no matter who gets the nomination.

If the nomination goes to Mayor Pete it won't be only Sanders people who will not vote for him. How many people in Iowa and NH don't know that he is gay and legally married just like the woman in Iowa who voted for him and wanted to change her vote when she found out?

But the Iowa votes for Mayor Pete should tell the Dems. that a whole lot of people want a fiscally moderate president rather than an extreme progressive.

 

[Jermayn]

All Dems, and all Bern supporters, were support the Dem candidate.

Nothing is more important that Trump leaving office.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. You can go look for yourself. Almost everyone is saying they will either vote for a 3rd party candidate or Trump.

 

[Albion]

...and we have already seen three other contenders rise to the top of the polls only to then sink. I'm reluctant, therefore, to think Mayor Pete's rise is the end of the story. However, there seems to be a desire among Democrats for someone who is not a clear-cut extremist, so that would almost have to point to Pete or Bloomberg. There might be someone else, but I'm thinking of declared candidates who can fit that bill and also be taken seriously as having a chance at the nomination.

 

[Bobber]

All Dems, and all Bern supporters, were support the Dem candidate.

Nothing is more important that Trump leaving office.

Good grief! Best economy in a long, long, long, long time but you say nothing more important than Trump leaving office.

 

[Bobber]

I wouldn't be so sure of that. You can go look for yourself. Almost everyone is saying they will either vote for a 3rd party candidate or Trump.

That would still really be a vote for Trump.

 

[LizaMarie]

Joe Biden may turn out to be 2020's Jeb Bush. I remember when everyone thoughT Jeb was going to be the Republican nominee, and then he wasn't.
I see a two man race between Sanders and Mayor Pete, unless something else happens, which it could.

 

[Bobber]

I don't think Mayor Pete could win against Trump. Being a Mayor over a city of only about 100,000 isn't too much to provide confidence of his leadership experience. They made light of Sarah Palin for being a Governor of a State of a small population and yet it was seven times larger than what Pete was over. Trump didn't have political experience BUT he had the famous name of creating businesses and that's what America wanted. Obama was only a one term Senator but I think there was different dynamics going on at the time that caused him to win. Mayor Pete would win the Democratic leadership but in the general....can't see it.

 

[Jermayn]

I don't think Mayor Pete could win against Trump. Being a Mayor over a city of only about 100,000 isn't too much to provide confidence of his leadership experience. They made light of Sarah Palin for being a Governor of a State of a small population and yet it was seven times larger than what Pete was over. Trump didn't have political experience BUT he had the famous name of creating businesses and that's what America wanted. Obama was only a one term Senator but I think there was different dynamics going on at the time that caused him to win. Mayor Pete would win the Democratic leadership but in the general....can't see it.

Homosexuality and his recent stance on late term abortion is enough squash Mayor Pete's presidential hopes.

 

[GACfan]

Homosexuality and his recent stance on late term abortion is enough squash Mayor Pete's presidential hopes.

Yes, that's true. I can see why some people wouldn't want to support Pete. It's not like he's a twice divorced thrice married serial adulterer, who paid off a inappropriate content star to buy their silence. There aren't any hot mic recordings of him vulgarly bragging about how he would grab someone by their private parts because he's a celebrity. He hasn't suggested that the 2nd Amendment people act against his political opponents or joked about shooting somebody and he wouldn't lose support. He hasn't encouraged his supporters to knock the crap out of anyone who protests against him or called anyone human scum for not politically supporting him. He hasn't called other countries bleep hole countries. He hasn't said he likes people who weren't captured or suggested that a deceased lawmaker is looking up instead of looking down. But let's not politically support him and be morally indignant because he's homosexual.

Grant it, he probably won't win because of his late term abortion stance. But it's very disingenuous of any conservative to judge him for being gay when they support a twice divorced thrice married man, who fathered five children with three different women and paid off his inappropriate content star mistress to keep her quiet about their affair. They don't exactly have the moral standing to judge a Democrat for their sins.

 

[JohnAshton]

JohnAshton said: ↑
All Dems, and all Bern supporters, will support the Dem candidate.

Nothing is more important that Trump leaving office.

I wouldn't be so sure of that. You can go look for yourself. Almost everyone is saying they will either vote for a 3rd party candidate or Trump.

Oh, that's nonense, Jermayn, that you can even begin to support.

Almost everyone is saying "we will support the Dem candidate."

 

[Quartermaine]

I don't think Mayor Pete could win against Trump. Being a Mayor over a city of only about 100,000 isn't too much to provide confidence of his leadership experience.

Four years ago Trump had even less. Point?

They made light of Sarah Palin for being a Governor of a State of a small population and yet it was seven times larger than what Pete was over.

i don't recall that at all. And this is ignoring the fact that Bush jr's VP was from an equally low population state.

People made fun of Palin because she was such a lightweight who couldn't even fumble her way through a puff piece interview

 

[redleghunter]

All Dems, and all Bern supporters, were support the Dem candidate.

Nothing is more important that Trump leaving office.

That is in fact the DNC strategy now that they lost in impeachment. However, I watched a bit of the debate tonight and noticed everyone in the podium save Yang said their goal was to beat Trump. Well hello! That’s why the Democrats have primaries, to beat the other candidate.

Again except for Yang the rest have no message other than “beat Orange man.”

Better hope Yang wins the nomination. He’s the only one with fresh ideas which won’t bankrupt the country.

 

[Albion]

Four years ago Trump had even less. Point?

The point followed the sentence you quoted.

i don't recall that at all. And this is ignoring the fact that Bush jr's VP was from an equally low population state.

But he had a lot of valuable political experience going for him. Not so Former Mayor Pete.

 

[Albion]

Again except for Yang the rest have no message other than “beat Orange man.”

Better hope Yang wins the nomination. He’s the only one with fresh ideas which won’t bankrupt the country.

Amy Klobuchar was the only one in tonight's debate to indicate that it would be a concern if a Socialist were to be the nominee of the Democratic Party. Not only does that leave Yang out (who has no chance anyway) but also Mayor Pete who does want to be seen as a more moderate Democrat.

 

[redleghunter]

I don't think Mayor Pete could win against Trump. Being a Mayor over a city of only about 100,000 isn't too much to provide confidence of his leadership experience. They made light of Sarah Palin for being a Governor of a State of a small population and yet it was seven times larger than what Pete was over. Trump didn't have political experience BUT he had the famous name of creating businesses and that's what America wanted. Obama was only a one term Senator but I think there was different dynamics going on at the time that caused him to win. Mayor Pete would win the Democratic leadership but in the general....can't see it.

I think you may have a point on name recognition. I posted this yesterday. There was a woman voting who did not know mayor Pete was gay and married to another man.

Iowa Dem asks to withdraw vote for Buttigieg after learning he’s in gay ‘marriage’

 

[redleghunter]

Amy Klobuchar was the only one in tonight's debate to indicate that it would be a concern if a Socialist were to be the nominee of the Democratic Party. Not only does that leave Yang out (who has no chance anyway) but also Mayor Pete who does want to be seen as a more moderate Democrat.

I was impressed with Yang’s approach not his policies. He was the only one I saw with a vision other than “bad Orange man, bad must go.”