Why Biden Is Polling #1

A lot of people are at a loss as to why Joe Biden continues to poll #1 even after all his gaffes and the outright lies about his past and his "accomplishments". It even perplexed me until I understood it from the viewpoint of on-the-street democrats.

Of all the 2020 Democrat contenders, Biden is the only one the average, non-rabid voters see as being moderate. Democrats just cannot swallow the far-left radical plans of the other candidates. And they are not overly concerned that Biden is jumpng on the same "whacky train" because they think he is only doing that in order to win the primaries. They believe that once the primaries are over, Biden will revert back to a moderate. And he would.

One needs to understand a very important point - one that cagey old Biden is well aware of: primary voters are not the same people as "on-the-street" voters. Primaries typically attract the most radical voters , while most other voters stay home - they don't care that much about primaries. But the average moderate voters turn out in much larger numbers for general elections. This is precisely why candidates move to the left during primaries, to win their radical base, then swerve back to the middle during the general.

Polls are taken from a cross-section of likely general election voters, and the average democrat cannot accept the insanity of the radical wing of their party, so when they are polled they choose the only candidate they see as even  a remote possibility of being a moderate. They only have two choices - choose Biden, or choose no one.

And that is why Joe Biden polls in first place. But that is unlikely to do him much good.