One more final SC poll! Emerson College shows Biden with 16% lead.

[honest.abe]

A final Emerson College Polling/Nexstar South Carolina poll finds former Vice President Joe Biden at 41%, Senator Bernie Sanders at 25%, and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Businessman Tom Steyer tied at 11% each. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren are at 6% and 5% respectively, with Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard at 2%.

The South Carolina Emerson College/Nexstar poll was conducted February 26-February 27, 2020. The sample for the Democratic Primary consisted of registered Democratic, Independent and Republican very likely voters, n=550, with a Credibility Interval (CI) similar to a poll’s margin of error (MOE) of +/- 4.1 percentage points. The data sets were weighted based on gender, age, ethnicity, party, education, region, and mode based on 2016 turnout model. It is important to remember that subsets based on gender, age, party breakdown, ethnicity and region carry with them higher margins of error, as the sample size is reduced. Data was collected using an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system of landlines only (n=275), cell phones (n=93) and online panel provided by MTurk (n=182).

https://emersonpolling.reportablenews.com/pr/south-carolina-2020-biden-poised-to-win-his-first-contest

Looking very good for the Biden campaign today. This should give him a big boost into Super Tuesday. Could change the entire trajectory of this primary.

It will be interesting to see how the Sanders campaign spins this huge loss in the first big diverse state primary. I would say its probably not a good idea to say "too many black folk".

NOTE: Operation Chaos Republicans were included in this poll.

[rzemanfl]

1. K&R. Operation Chaos Republicans noted. n/t

[jimfields33]

2. I give sanders credit for consistency

25 percent all week it seems.

I wish all candidates best of luck.

[honest.abe]

3. Indeed.. remarkably consistent numbers.

[jimfields33]

4. I am happy to say that this is an exciting primary

So many twists and turns. And the one thing we are so lucky with, is every last one of them love America and the world and each would do an awesome job.

So happy for Biden today. He’s a good guy.

[honest.abe]

7. I have a feeling quite a few more twists and turns to come.

Good or bad.. it will be exciting indeed.

[k2qb3]

5. One of the more believable recent SC polls IMO.

My workplace is overwhelmingly for Bernie, but my wife tells me hers has shifted strongly to Biden.

We'll see how it shakes out soon. I still expect Bernie to get more delegates than the statewide popular vote ratio would suggest, but it looks like Biden is consolidating enough support to carry multiple districts and meet threshold in most or all of them.

[honest.abe]

6. Yeah, many delegates will be assigned at the district level.

That could benefit Sanders.

[emmaverybo]

8. Bernie will spin as an establishment conspiracy led by Clyburn, joined by Panetta, with various S.C.

officials as henchmen.

[honest.abe]

9. Yeah, I feel sorry for Jim Clyburn.

He will probably be a target of ridicule and harassment by some Bernie supporters like we saw in 2016 when prominent Hillary supporters were heckled and booed at the convention.

[texasfiddler]

10. Glad Bloomberg isn't running in SC

[FloridaBlues]

11. A win is a win. Hoping biden does well in SC no matter if by 10 or 20 points.

Pundits setting this up he's gotta win by 20 or else it will be a loss for him .
Don't recall this happening in past 3 primary states for Sanders or Pete.