A LOT of interesting polling stuff going on right now.
Today, in a Patinkin Research Strategies poll of New Hampshire (600 people, 21% on cell phones), Tulsi came in at 7% in 5th place. According to this poll, 7% of those polled are still undecided.
News aplenty for Tulsi, entering into the new numerical decade . . .
Tulsi Raises $3.4 million in Q4 2019
This was her best quarter yet.
In comparison, in Q3 she raised $3.0 million; in Q2 she raised $1.6 million; and in Q1 she raised $2.0 million.
Of course, other candidates raised more--for example, Booty-gig announced yesterday raising $25 million or thereabouts.
Julian Castro Drops Out of Race
The Tulsi campaign showed us today that their total warchest for the early states, raised through the end of last year, reached about $1.2 million:
Her goal was to raise $1 million by the end of 2019 to remain competitive in the early states, so she did good exceeding that by a couple hundred grand.
Today, Tulsi will reach her $1 million campaign warchest goal for "keeping competitive" with the rest of the Democratic candidates in the early primary/caucus states. As of right now here is the total:
Tulsi has been pretty explicit about her strategy to move herself into a better position. Thought I'd lay it out here so that people can understand it better and comment on it if they wish.
Announcement from Tulsi:
For a number of reasons, I have decided not to attend the December 19th "debate" — regardless of whether or not there are qualifying polls. I instead choose to spend that precious time directly meeting with and hearing from the people of New Hampshire and South Carolina.
It seems it was official yesterday that Tulsi reached the 200,000 unique donor threshold to qualify for the December debate!
So, the first post-November debate poll has dropped--a non-qualifying Boston Globe/Suffolk poll from New Hampshire--and Tulsi continues to look very strong there (as does Bernie):
Bernie: 15.6%
Warren: 13.8%
Buttigieg: 13.4%
Biden: 12.0%
Gabbard: 6.2%
Yang: 3.8%
Harris: 2.8%
Booker: 2.2%
Steyer: 2.0%
Undecided: 21.2%
A new YouGov/Hofstra poll from Iowa has some very interesting numbers regarding Tulsi's candidacy.
As of tonight, Tulsi is officially in the November debates, getting 3% in a Quinnipiac Iowa poll.
