Poll: Iowa caucuses are 'up for grabs' as Pete Buttigieg surges into top tier

[Soph0571]

It's a new three-way race in Iowa.

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who was initially seen as a long-shot presidential contender, has surged within striking distance of former vice president Joe Biden and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren in the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses, a Suffolk University/USA TODAY Poll finds.

Biden, long viewed as the Democratic frontrunner, is faltering in the wake of a debate performance last week that those surveyed saw as disappointing.

The poll, taken Wednesday through Friday, put Biden at 18%, Warren at 17% and Buttigieg at 13% among 500 likely Democratic caucusgoers.

[link:https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/10/21/iowa-caucuses-pete-buttigieg-elizabeth-warren-joe-biden-top-poll/4025797002/|]

That has to have Sanders team concerned. Certainly mixes things up. It can get very tedious reading article after article re Biden, Warren and Sanders as the only ones who can beat Trump...

[Renew Deal]

1. Someone other than Biden, Warren, Sanders winning Iowa would be a reprieve for the Democratic Party

[Cha]

2. It doesn't get "tedious" for me to see

Biden beating trump.

[Ninga]

3. With 3 plus months to go before the first votes are cast, it's very likely the ebb and flow

of the front runners will continue to flex.

The candidates know this better than anyone else.

I think this process is a tremendous test of leadership and communication.

Lots of laps yet to go in the race.

[Skya Rhen]

4. Good news for Buttigieg - but reality check... He's still at 2% among AAs. And, if he wins Iowa? No,

the AAs, in SC, will not "fall in line" - just as they won't "fall in line" if Warren wins Iowa.

The kingmakers will not be predominantly white states. All roads to winning the nomination run through the racially-diverse states. This means that the black votes actually have relevance.

That being said, I can see Buttigieg in Biden's cabinet - for sure...

[redqueen]

5. If anyone finds a link to the poll results pleased share.

Looked but didn't find them.

[patricia92243]

6. Come on, Pete. We need you :)

[crazytown]

7. Pete is putting in a lot of work on the ground in Iowa

[Tarc]

8. People yelling in someone's living room is not democracy.

I'll wait to see how they do in states with real voting.

[dalton99a]

9. +1. Rural white people yelling in somebody's rural home