Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Warren embraced the high-dollar fundraiser circuit for years -- until just before her presidential ca [View all]Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Warren's biggest issue has, and continues to be, her sincerity. A lot of people question it and this is yet another bad misstep from the Warren campaign that really is indicative of her slip in the polls. I like Warren personally, but I feel she's a mess of a candidate with how she handles these missteps.
On paper, Warren should be walking to the nomination. She's got the bonafides, or you'd think, of a liberal dream, without the actual divisiveness that Bernie had prior to the race. Among all the Democrats, only Bernie and Biden had better name recognition but she has continuously face-planted at major moments in the campaign that has cost her to lose a ton of traction each time.
First it was the whole DNA flub, which dominated the very early days of her campaign. Then, when she finally rebounded, and began making a surge in the polls, she backed herself into a corner with Medicare for All, only to have to pivot and watch her support dip because of it ... and now she's positioning herself for even more criticism by going after a Democrat on something she's done in the past.
On Oct. 8th, Warren essentially tied Biden nationally at 26.8% to his 27.
Since, she's dropped ten points and is now third behind Sanders.
On Oct. 28th, Warren was first in an average of Iowa polls at 22.7%. Today, she's fourth and has dropped nearly seven-points.
I don't consider that winning. She's once again opened herself up to the sincerity criticism and, as was the case with the DNA flap and them M4A, it's likely to ding her poll numbers even more. It wouldn't surprise me if Warren fell behind Klobuchar in Iowa. Okay, it'd surprise me somewhat but at this rate? She's faltering heading into the most important stretch of the campaign, which is not the message you'd want to send to wary Dems who are focused on beating Donald Trump.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden