All Politics -- Four National Polls Just Released -- December 16, 2019

The four national polls:

• Quinnipiac, 12/11- 12/15;
• USA Today, 12/10 - 12/14;
• NPR/PBS/Marist, 12/9 - 12/11;
• IBD/TIPP, 12/5 - 12/14;

Results:

• Placeholder for Hillary: range, 26% to 30%; no change from earlier polls
• Sanders: 14% to 22%; the 22% was with NPR/PBS/Marist; 
• Pocahontas: 13% to 17%
• Buttigieg: 8% to 13%; again, the 13% was with NPR/PBS/Marist; overall -- unimpressive
• the others are irrelevant, but for the record:
• Bloomberg: 5% to 7%;
• Klobuchar: 2% to 4%; whoo-hoo; a legend in her own mind;
• Steyer: 0% (NPR) to 2% (IPD) but average is maybe 1%

The way it works:

• one must garner 15% of all votes to take any delegates
• as it stands, Biden -- the placeholder for Hillary -- takes all delegates or shares delegates with Sanders/Pocahontas
• others have no chance for any delegates

Final comments:

• Steyer and Bloomberg: vanity runs; neither getting much traction
• Hillary: recalculating ... recalculating ... recalculating ... as long as Biden remains the under 35% front-runner she can hope for a brokered convention ... but because of the "way it works" there may not be a brokered convention....