The latest Emerson College Poll has the top tier Democrats in New Hampshire’s First in the Nation Primary changing again. A socialist and a so-called moderate (another socialist), have been replaced with a different socialist and a so-called moderate (another socialist).
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Bay State U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren and former Vice President Joe Biden have been the Democratic frontrunners in New Hampshire — but the winds of political change are blowing and Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Mayor Pete Buttigieg now have the breeze at their backs.
Our college poll shows Sanders has taken over the lead with 26 percent of New Hampshire’s Democratic primary voters, followed closely by Buttigieg at 22 percent.
Biden and Warren now trail, both tied at 14 percent.
For those of you keeping score at home, here is how News 7 reports the poll positions of the rest of the socialists.
Our poll establishes a clear second tier of candidates led by Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard at 6 percent, entrepreneur Andrew Yang at 5 percent, U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris at 4 percent, and billionaire Tom Steyer at 3 percent.
All of the other candidates have 2 percent or less.
Steyer dumped a load of cash into New Hampshire in 2017 and 2018 to drive student turnout, and it worked. Not for him. He was clearly not doing this as a favor to New Hampshire Democrats. He was doing it to build a base of support in the New Hampshire primary for a 2018 presidential run. He’s at 3% and in eight place.
Sanders blew Hillary away in 2016, talking New Hampshire by a wide margin. Recent polling has shown him struggling to regain that traction.
Warren, who peaked a few weeks ago as the girl with the plan, began having trouble when everyone began picking apart her plan. As noted here, her plan to release plans was a bad plan. And it has cost her the top spot. Democrat primary voters love the ideas, but they can’t defend them unless they are emotional lofty vapid exhortations of promised utopias absent details.
Details like the confiscatory taxes, oppressive regulations, and police state tactics needed to sustain the serial theft of other people’s property in perpetuity.
It’s still early. The Primary is not until Feb. 11, so we should expect the winds to continue to change. But in the end, it hardly matters. There are no moderates sonly socialists in the Democrat primary. A dozen manifestations of the same destructive policies, all of whom need to be kept from rising to higher political office.