This has become the central dividing line in the Democratic presidential race

[Gothmog]

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The leading candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential race are assembling coalitions of support through the early primary polling that are reminiscent of the patterns that repeatedly shaped the struggles for the party's nomination in the last decades of the 20th century.

Like such predecessors as Hubert Humphrey, Walter Mondale, Bill Clinton and Al Gore, former Vice President Joe Biden is relying heavily on voters from what's been called the Democrats' "beer track": blue-collar, older and moderate whites, along with African Americans. …..

The poll also showed Biden consolidating the key components of the historic beer track. Among white Democrats without college degrees, he drew 26% (to 21% for Sanders and just 15% for Warren). His lead was even more commanding among African Americans, 42% of whom said they are supporting Biden, compared with just 12% for Sanders and 10% for Warren.

This reversion to the voter alignments that drove the party primaries during the late 20th century represents a back to the future moment for the Democrats. In 2008, Barack Obama scrambled this historic pattern and won the nomination by combining a strong performance among college-educated whites with a big advantage among African Americans; to an underappreciated extent, Hillary Clinton followed that model to beat back the unexpectedly strong challenge from Sanders in 2016.

[The Valley Below]

1. Count me as another "wine track" liberal for Joe Biden.

His draw is deep and wide.

[Gothmog]

5. I am a wine tracker also

[The Valley Below]

8. Cheers!

[Srkdqltr]

2. This whole thing has been going on for way too long.

It is getting stupid.

[dem4decades]

3. Beer, wine, vodka, or pot. I don't care as long as we win.

[OhNo-Really]

4. Please go after my grandkids vote. Excite them too!

[The Valley Below]

6. My 15 year old son wishes he was old enough to vote for Biden.

He's all in.

[OhNo-Really]

10. That's good. Mine will vote Democratic ticket

But not excited yet other than ending the present child caging chapter

[ritapria]

7. Which candidate has the highest net favorability in your CNN National Poll, Ronnie ?

The guy who has no chance of winning the nomination …………..

[LakeArenal]

9. "We all seem to underestimate the coalition Biden has "cobbled" together of the last year."

Bingo... Except for that cobbled together bit.
Biden’s coalition is not cobbled together. It’s rock solid.

[Thekaspervote]

13. +1000

[Jeebo]

11. What if you don't drink?

I never touch the stuff. Beer, wine, hard liquor, I frankly can't stand the putrid stuff, never have. I will vote for whoever gets the Democratic nomination. ANYBODY is better than that megalomaniacal con man who's in the White House now. But dividing Democratic voters into "beer track" and "wine track" voters discriminates against non-drinkers, because it assumes that they ALL drink.

-- Ron

[judeling]

12. Persistant or Solid?

That is the question about Biden's support.
This is not a prediction as it is to early but ...

I can make a case that Sanders wins Iowa with Biden and Klobuchar finishing right behind. If that is the case Klobuchar will take the attack to Sanders while defending Biden and that just may give her the Nomination.

Biden does not command.

[TexasTowelie]

14. K&R! nt