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Glueck writes: "There are signs of a disconnect between support for Mr. Biden in polls and excitement for his campaign on the ground in Iowa."

Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. campaigned in Urbandale, Iowa, on Tuesday. Voters repeatedly emphasized that their support for him was closely linked to early polling. (photo: Tom Brenner/The New York Times)
Former vice president Joseph R. Biden Jr. campaigned in Urbandale, Iowa, on Tuesday. Voters repeatedly emphasized that their support for him was closely linked to early polling. (photo: Tom Brenner/The New York Times)


Joe Biden's Poll Numbers Mask an Enthusiasm Problem `

By Katie Glueck, The New York Times

23 August 19


There are signs of a disconnect between support for Mr. Biden in polls and excitement for his campaign on the ground in Iowa.

“I did not meet one Biden voter who was in any way, shape or form excited about voting for Biden ... They feel that they have to vote for Joe Biden as the centrist candidate, to keep somebody from the left who they feel is unelectable from getting the nomination.”

- Patrick Murray, director of Monmouth’s Polling Institute


oseph R. Biden Jr. is coasting in the national polls. Surveys show him ahead of his Democratic rivals in hypothetical matchups against President Trump. He has maintained a lead in Iowa all summer, despite facing months of controversies over his record and his campaign missteps.

But less than two weeks before Labor Day there are signs of a disconnect between his relatively rosy poll numbers and excitement for his campaign on the ground here, in the state that begins the presidential nominating process.

In conversations with county chairs, party strategists and dozens of voters this week at Mr. Biden’s events, many Democrats in Iowa described a case for Mr. Biden, the former vice president, that reflected shades of the one his wife, Jill Biden, bluntly sketched out on Monday. “You may like another candidate better, but you have to look at who is going to win,” she said, citing Mr. Biden’s consistent lead in early surveys.

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