Bernie Sanders rides announcement and online surge to Daily Kos Straw Poll victory
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Results time! 2/18 2/5 1/22 1/8 Bernie Sanders 44 13 12 11 KAMALA HARRIS 15 27% 27 14 ELIZABETH WARREN 10 17 18 22 JOE BIDEN 8 11 13 14Bernie Sanders rides announcement and online surge to Daily Kos Straw Poll victory
Results time! 2/18 2/5 1/22 1/8 Bernie Sanders 44 13 12 11 KAMALA HARRIS 15 27% 27 14 ELIZABETH WARREN 10 17 18 22 JOE BIDEN 8 11 13 14 Amy Klobuchar 6 6 - - BETO O’ROURKE 4 5 8 15 SHERROD BROWN 3 7 6 n/a Cory Booker 2 3 2 3 Jay Inslee 1 - - - UNSURE 4 6 6 9 OTHER 2 4 5 9 (SAMPLE SIZE) n=56K n=42.2K n=28K n=35.5K This edition of the Daily Kos Straw Poll was fortuitously timed with Bernie Sanders’ presidential announcement, providing a surge of interest and excitement internet-wide—including a strong effort by supporters to drive people to the poll. If you think there’s anything untoward about that, there’s not! The Straw Poll measures the intensity of online support, and there’s nothing stopping supporters of other campaigns from doing the same. You can certainly see the surge of new voters in the sample size—with the poll hitting 50,000 participants for the first time ever. And in two weeks, we should be able to enable the ability to vote via mobile device, which could usher in the era of 100K-respondent straw polls. And we’d be excited at 10,000 in the 2016 cycle ... Read more