Vice President Joe Biden saw his support almost double among Democratic voters in the latest national poll released Tuesday.
Biden surged to 22 percent among registered voters who identified as Democrats and lean toward the Democratic Party in the newest Monmouth University Poll, though he still trailed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who polled at 42 percent.
Biden has yet to launch a campaign, although he has said he is considering it.
The poll found Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in third place at 20 percent. There was little to no movement for other Democratic presidential candidates.
Biden saw a 10-point increase during the month of August while Sanders, who has had strong poll numbers in New Hampshire, only jumped 4 points. Biden’s favorability rating also increased to 71 percent, which tied him with Clinton.
Those polled overwhelmingly did not waver in their support for Biden if he would only serve one term. Eighty percent said his potential one-term presidency would not affect their decision to support Biden.
The poll was conducted among 1,009 adults, 339 of whom were registered voters who identified as or leaned toward the Democratic Party, from Aug. 31 to Sept. 2. The poll was conducted by both landline and cell phone with live interviews. The margin of error was plus or minus 5.3 percent among the Democratic segment.
I’d love to see Joe enter the race. My support for Hillary would not change, but I much prefer Biden over Sanders if Hillary does manage to screw the pooch in some way.
Biden’s poll numbers going up has resulted in a lot of reporters are patting themselves on the back claiming Hillary’s email “scandal” has spun out of control. In my world the email “scandal” is a nothing burger. Hillary’s problems are three fold (1) her message is so tightly controlled they plan when she is going to be spontaneous, (2) she has the stage presence of a tax lawyer on the stump and (3) she comes across as the ultimate elite insider in a year when elites are not particularly welcome by the voters. If she wants to win she will take personal control of her own campaign, fire the button down message control team, and let her hair down. If she has it in her at all she will say bad things about the elites including her elite backers. She will just be spontaneous and will say what she really thinks. Hell, being who he is has worked for the Donald. It could work for Hillary.
I respect your opinions about Hill, but I disagree with you across the board. I will nod that incumbency and DC filth are, so far, playing like a mid-term cycle which is not good for Hillary.
It’s important to remember that this probably marks the high-water mark for an actual Biden campaign. Just like with Fred Thompson, Rick Perry, or Wesley Clark, Biden will probably not poll higher if he actually gets in the race. Before entering, the only press these men received (and that Joe is receiving) are about how good they could be, and how popular they are. Once they start running, they actually have to run a campaign, and raise money, and give interviews etc. and the press and other candidates start discussing their negatives, and inevitably their numbers go down.
Sure it’s theoretically possible that Joe could be such a good campaigner that his numbers go up, and he wins, but the much more likely scenario, especially since we have two previous attempts to look back to, is that his numbers would go down from here. In the process, he would however, probably help to damage Hillary Clinton, as his only real argument against her would be against her character. This is why the biggest cheerleaders for Biden, outside of Delaware, are Republicans and the media, neither of whom like Hillary at all, and actively want to try and harm her now, because they know if she gets the nomination she’s going to win.
I dunno. Biden is the sitting VP. He is way more well known than your examples. Also, PBO is extremely popular with Democrats. Biden would represent a continuation of the Obama administration better than Hillary. She clearly has her own regime and baggage. Biden would come in, presumably, with Obama’s blessing and support. Id he enters, he has the potential to be a “big fucking deal,” in his own parlance.