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The polls are in: here’s who won-and lost- last weeks debate

Democratic presidential candidates Senator Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden speak during a break in the Democratic Presidential Debate at Texas Southern University’s Health and PE Center on September 12, 2019, in Houston, Texas.
via https://www.vox.com/2019/9/18/20872216/warren-biden-yang-democratic-presidential-polls

With the third round of the presidential debates over, the ten democratic candidates battled on the stage. The spotlight is more intense than ever leading up to the democratic presidential nominee.

With the frontrunner former Vice President Joe Biden leading in five national polls, while four poles show Elizabeth Warren in second place, with Senator Bernie Sanders in third. As with any poll, there is a margin of error. However, it was California Senator Kamala Harris that received the worst news.

The latest polls show Senator Harris clearly falling behind the pack. Looking behind the top five candidates you have Andrew Yang, Beto O’Rourke, and Cory Booker all of which all have around three percent nationally since the debates.

With Iowa being a critical state on the campaign trail, the Ann Selzer’s Des Moines Register poll is well respected. The results of that poll will be released soon. Therefore a more clear path through Iowa will be set.

This article is important as it pertains to the 2020 presidential election. Something which affects all American citizens. The audience is much broader as opposed to my previous article about Brook Lopez which had a more narrow target audience. The audience for this article is nationwide as it concerns the United States.

1 Comment

  1. fuglsang

    Yes, politics and the potential does have a broader audience than most sports stories. The Super Bowl is bigger, but that is some ways off.

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