MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
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Four Interesting Findings From The Recent Flurry Of 2020 Polls
By artappraiser on Sat, 08/24/2019 - 8:54pm |By Perry Bacon, Jr. @ FiveThirtyEight.com, Aug. 23
We’ve had a flurry of new polls about the 2020 presidential race released over the last week. The results confirm some broad dynamics that have been clear for months. President Trump’s poor job approval ratings make him vulnerable to defeat next year. Former Vice President Joe Biden leads the Democratic primary field, largely because of support from voters who are black, over the age of 50, more moderate and/or without college degrees. Democratic voters like many of the 2020 candidates but are particularly obsessed with “electability,” and many think Biden is the most likely candidate to defeat Trump.
But some of the other findings from these surveys1 were more surprising, so for this edition of Pollapalooza, let’s just run through a few of the numbers that stood out.
Hispanic Democrats don’t seem to have a favorite yet [....]
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https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/four-interesting-findings-from-the-recent-flurry-of-2020-polls/
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