Why Joe Biden’s Collapse In Iowa Means Trouble For Democrats

[mystery-ak]

 Why Joe Biden’s Collapse In Iowa Means Trouble For Democrats

The fall of Biden would mean the Democratic Party’s best hope to prevent a Bernie Sanders nomination is Pete Buttigieg. That should worry Democrats.

By John Daniel Davidson
February 6, 2020

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — Of all the Democratic caucusgoers I spoke with in Iowa last week, not one told me his or her first choice was Joe Biden. Now I know why: there were never that many Biden supporters in Iowa to begin with.

All of the caucus results might not be in yet, but we know enough to say with confidence that Biden’s campaign in Iowa collapsed. Despite leading in many state polls over the past year, he finished a distant fourth, barely clearing the 15 percent threshold for viability and, with 86 percent of precincts reporting as of this writing, earning 10,000 fewer votes statewide than Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who came in third.

The media, which still relies far too much on polls, wasn’t expecting this. But I have a feeling it didn’t shock many Iowa Democrats. As Jay Cost noted on Twitter, Biden peaked at 28.5 percent in the RealClearPolitics poll average in Iowa, but “the more voters saw of him, the less they liked.”

The big story out of Iowa, then, isn’t necessarily the broken app or the utter incompetence of the Iowa State Democratic Party and the Democratic National Committee (although those are important stories that will likely take on more significance as the cycle goes on). The big story is that Biden, the presumptive Democratic frontrunner right up until Monday night, might not survive past South Carolina, which has now become his firewall.

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[goatprairie]

Biden is the candidate of the ever diminishing numbers of semi-sane Dem voters who are horrified by the thought of an admitted socialist (Sanders) or some almost socialists (Buttigieg, Warren) as president.
I thought Biden would do better in a midwestern state like Iowa than he did.  But apparently, Sniffer Joe is not thought of well there.
If Biden is forced out by S. Carolina, the future of the Democrat Party will be laid bare.....dismal, socialist, and anti-American.

[libertybele]

Biden is the candidate of the ever diminishing numbers of semi-sane Dem voters who are horrified by the thought of an admitted socialist (Sanders) or some almost socialists (Buttigieg, Warren) as president.
I thought Biden would do better in a midwestern state like Iowa than he did.  But apparently, Sniffer Joe is not thought of well there.
If Biden is forced out by S. Carolina, the future of the Democrat Party will be laid bare.....dismal, socialist, and anti-American.

The DEM party IS already dismal, socialist and anti-American!

[Cyber Liberty]

The fact of the matter is the Dem Party Swells have always wanted socialism (run by themselves), at "moderates" are a fiction.  By Iowa, Biteme spent so much time aping the views of the farthest left that nobody really knew or cared what Biteme thinks when those Precinct Captains started firing up their cell phone apps.

[goatprairie]

The DEM party IS already dismal, socialist and anti-American!

Yes, but liberal talking heads and assorted dopes like to claim that the party is somehow center-left and basically in the mainstream of American ideas and plans.
There is the third of American voters somewhere in the middle who still might swallow that bunk.
Nominating a rank (and I do mean rank) socialist scuzzball like Bernie Sanders will give the lie to those claims of the party being middle of the road.

[catfish1957]

I thought Biden would do better in a midwestern state like Iowa than he did.  But apparently, Sniffer Joe is not thought of well there.
If Biden is forced out by S. Carolina, the future of the Democrat Party will be laid bare.....dismal, socialist, and anti-American.

I think the Ukraine muck is sticking more to Slow Joe than he or his MSM lackeys are letting on.

[Cyber Liberty]

I think the Ukraine muck is sticking more to Slow Joe than he or his MSM lackeys are letting on.

I think so, and that chapter of the story is just now starting to be written.  Treasury has provided Senator Grassley with the Secret Service records of both Bitemes in Ukraine.  They were asked for just yesterday.

Grassley is the Chair of  Senate Finance Committee and President Pro Tempore of the Senate.