What Went Down In The Fifth Democratic Debate
Buttigieg has clearly been spending a lot of time in Iowa. And it’s important to keep in mind that his surge is quite Iowa- (and to some extent New Hampshire-)centric. In a world where South Carolina and Nevada voted first, it’s unlikely he’d been in the same position right now.
In the FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos poll conducted this week, 10.7 percent of people said climate change was the most important issue to them in the Democratic primary. 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 climate change
Among the 408 respondents who said climate change was the most important issue to them in an Ipsos/FiveThirtyEight poll
| candidate | Share of respondents | |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth Warren | 25.4% | |
| Bernie Sanders | 23.3 | |
| Joe Biden | 15.3 | |
| Pete Buttigieg | 12.3 | |
| Someone else | 6.0 | |
| Kamala Harris | 5.4 | |
| Andrew Yang | 4.2 | |
| Tom Steyer | 2.8 | |
| Amy Klobuchar | 2.0 | |
| Cory Booker | 1.8 | |
| Tulsi Gabbard | 0.0 |
In the October 2018 survey I did, the top five issues for Democrats were health care (30 percent), Social Security (10 percent), income inequality (7 percent), racism (6 percent) and climate change (6 percent). We’ve heard something on health care and inequality, but less on Social Security, racism or climate change, though we’re getting a climate question now.