Exactly! It's very telling how a progressive such as Warren has been able to skyrocket in the polls running a platform such as hers, Bernie btw doing great as well. A progressive will be able to win the general, anybody who says otherwise is just being dishonest and their opinion on the matter is better left in the trash.

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/464253-warrens-campaign-team-sends-dinner-cookies-to-sanders-staffers-after-heart

This is so wholesome. At this point, if Sanders or Warren win the nomination and the other one doesn't become the winner's VP, it would almost be a tragedy.

Sanders and Warren have great fundraising numbers in third quarter. Bidens are a bit lackluster for the frontrunner. Buttigieg has also good fundraising.

https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/04/elizabeth-warren-third-quarter-fundraising-027426

Big week for the DNC:

Trump is dragging Biden down in the Ukraine swamp, since the DNC is throwing him under the Trump bus in the hopes to stop it. His numbers will only go down.
Bernie is done since he did have a heart attack: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-released-from-hopsital_n_5d97c255e4b0fc935eda16fd

Warren will be it, it seems. It's gonna be lovely .

Third-quarter fundraising totals at or above $10 million:

Trump: $125 million
Sanders: 25.3 million
Warren: $24.6 million
Buttigieg: $19.1 million
Biden: $15.2 million
Harris: $11.6 million
Yang: $10 million

Average donation sizes for third quarter:

Trump: Conveniently not released. Was $48 in Q2.
Biden: $44
Harris: $34
Buttigieg: $32
Yang: $30
Warren: $26
Sanders: $18

On the Democratic side, with the notable exception of Andrew Yang, all of the average donation sizes were lower in the third quarter than in the second, which, combined with Trump more than doubling his fundraising in quarter three compared to quarter two, suggests that Trump is now clearly starting to monopolize high-dollar donors. He is the clear-cut candidate of the super-rich at this point. His $125 million third-quarter haul is nearly double Obama's for the same quarter in 2011 ($70 million). You'll notice they didn't bother to release an average contribution size this time. That suggests the Trump team believes it's now high enough that releasing that info would tend to be sufficiently alienating to small-dollar donors to discourage them from contributing in the future. His campaign uses the term "juggernaut" to describe his numbers. That's a very commercial term.

With corporate America rallying to Trump's side, the Democrats are being left increasingly financially dependent on everyday people, to which end the Democrats now faring best in fundraising are the ones who have most fully relied on a populist fundraising model from the outset: Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Those Democratic candidates who have been more dependent on high-dollar donors (such as Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg), by contrast, fared worse in the third quarter than in the second, as those high-dollar donors they rely on moved more fully into the Trump column. What it all suggests is that rejecting high-dollar fundraisers is not only a viable option for the Democratic candidates, but actually the most practical one. Those Democrats relying on populist fundraising appear to have been the most foresighted, if anything.

There have been those who have questioned Elizabeth Warren's dedication to populist fundraising here on this thread. Here is what she had to say to reporters on the subject when pressed about how badly all the Democrats were being trounced by Trump and the Republicans in fundraising totals:

"So there's a fundamental question about how you think democracy works in America. If you think it's going to be all about scooping up a bunch of money from rich people, and then buying a bunch of TV ads, and that's how it is someone's going to win, then, yeah, it looks like Trump's doing a lot here and the Republicans. I just don't think that's how democracy works anymore, and I sure don't think that's how it's going to work in 2020."

That to me doesn't sound like someone who is planning on going a different route at any point in this campaign. That sounds like someone who has recognized the aforementioned reality -- the inevitable class polarization of fundraising models -- and is making a fundamental ideological case for her current style of fundraising versus that of Trump and the Republicans. It sounds to me like someone who has made up her mind about that.

Here are the current Real Clear Politics polling averages for the Democratic candidates from the last two weeks:

Biden: 26.2%
Warren: 24%
Sanders: 16.8%
Others: Single-digits

Out of the polls represented therein, the most recent one by Monmouth University is the most striking to me, as it's Warren's best national poll yet. It finds the following:

Warren: 28%
Biden: 25%
Sanders: 15%
Others: Single-digits

It also finds Warren to have the highest relative favorability rating (+2) of any candidate, Democratic or Republican, and President Trump the worst (-13); a fact that suggests a definite divergence between fundraising totals and actual popularity. Among the Democratic candidates, Sanders has the worst relative favorability rating (-6), according to this survey, although he has fared distinctly better in this metric in other surveys, it's worth adding. Point being that all the Democratic candidates are better-liked than the sitting president.

I agree, it sounds like she's doubling back on her original statements regarding fundraising. Which I'm all in favor of, that was one of the big things that I didn't like, hopefully she doesn't change her mind again.

Stefan.De.Machtige said: Big week for the DNC: Trump is dragging Biden down in the Ukraine swamp, since the DNC is throwing him under the Trump bus in the hopes to stop it. His numbers will only go down. Bernie is done since he did have a heart attack: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie-sanders-released-from-hopsital_n_5d97c255e4b0fc935eda16fd Warren will be it, it seems. It's gonna be lovely .

What a silly thing to say, a bit premature don't you think?

Another poll by The Economist shows Biden slipping further. It looks that Warren is picking up nearly all of the undecideds. I think this will cause a feedback loop allowing her to pick up most of the Biden support, who were supporting him because it looked like he was going to win. Now it's becoming more apparent that Warren is going to win. She has both the passion and the intellect.
Additionally, I'll go ahead and say that she's almost certainly the US's next President. Trump's support has been below adequate for him to retain the presidency virtually since he took office (since at least March 2017). Not to mention, he has grown weak and feeble since 2016, lacking coherency. I expect a landslide victory for Elizabeth Warren's Democrats.

Here are the poll numbers from October 1st, by The Economist.
1. Warren - 28%
2. Biden - 22%
3. Sanders - 13%

She's beginning to move from simple leading to a commanding lead.

I think this is a very premature conclusion considering that Biden is still the front runner when you average out all the polls. https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2020/president/us/2020_democratic_presidential_nomination-6730.html

Reminder that Biden is still crushing it in the South (41% to 12% for Warren) where Warren's 5% among Black Democrats will sink her. 

It's strange that there's such pervasive fatalism about Biden's chances when he consistently leads in South Carolina by landslide margins pic.twitter.com/mVgsSjRV8C

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) October 6, 2019