What Went Down In The Fifth Democratic Debate

In the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted this week, 19.8 percent of people said health care was the most important issue to them in the Democratic primary — more than any other issue. Here’s who those respondents thought would be best at handling the issue. (See other results from the poll here.)

Who voters think is best on health care

Among the 751 respondents who said health care was the most important issue to them in an Ipsos/FiveThirtyEight poll

candidate		Share of respondents
Joe Biden	28.6%	– –
Bernie Sanders	26.8	– –
Elizabeth Warren	21.0	– –
Pete Buttigieg	8.0	– –
Someone else	4.1	– –
Kamala Harris	3.3	– –
Amy Klobuchar	2.9	– –
Tom Steyer	1.2	– –
Cory Booker	1.1	– –
Andrew Yang	0.5	– –
Tulsi Gabbard	0.0

Yeah Clare, I was gonna say that of all the candidates who might feel annoyed by Democratic donors searching for a savior who is not currently running, I’d bet Booker might be the most annoyed. He has relationships with the business community, he’s not that far left, he’s young …. Why aren’t donors just trying to rally more support behind him?

Micah, my expectation would be that impeachment would benefit a candidate like Buttigieg, who’s not really linked with the national political establishment and not in Congress. He has been doing better since it started, but I’m not sure that’s linked. And the kind of impeachment fatigue and backlash against the impeaching party that happened in 1998 doesn’t seem to be happening. So maybe my initial theory is wrong.