Reuters/Ipsos Survey: 2020 Democratic Primary Tracker (1/10/2020)
Washington, DC, January 10, 2020 — A new public opinion poll shows that Senator Bernie Sanders and Former Vice President Joe Biden are the top contenders for the 2020 presidential nomination. Among Democratic registered voters, Biden (23%) maintains an edge over Sanders (20%) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (15%). Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg (8%) and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg (7%) round out the top five candidates in the race for the Democratic nomination. Among Democrats and independents, Sanders (17%) has a slight lead over Biden (15%), and Warren (10%) maintains her third-place position. Buttigieg (5%) and Bloomberg (6%) are statistically tied among Democrats and independents. All other candidates receive 3% of the vote share or less among Democrats and independents and Democratic registered voters.
When asked about the most important candidate traits that factor into who they decide to vote for, Democratic registered voters were most likely to say that the ability to beat President Trump in the general election (42%) was the most important consideration for them. The next most important traits were strong positions on healthcare (11%) and the economy and jobs (11%). Read the full Reuters story here.
About the Study
These are some of the findings of an Ipsos poll conducted between January 8-9, 2020 on behalf of Thomson Reuters. For this survey, a sample of 1,116 adults age 18+ from the continental U.S., Alaska and Hawaii were interviewed online in English. The sample includes 479 Democrats, 409 Republicans, 144 independents and 436 Democratic registered voters. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics to ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. The precision of Ipsos online polls is measured using a credibility interval. In this case, the poll is accurate to within ± 3.3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20, had all Americans been polled. The credibility interval will be wider among subsets of the population. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to other sources of error, including, but not limited to coverage error, and measurement error. The poll also has a credibility interval ± 5.1 percentage points for Democrats, ± 5.5 percentage points for Republicans, ± 9.3 percentage points for independents, and ± 5.4 percentage points for Democratic registered voters.
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