By A. Shaw
An outfit called Polling Report.com collects polling results on a number of electoral races, including the race for the Democratic Party (DP) presidential nomination.
As of late Oct. 2014, Polling Report.com has collected thirteen polling results from various media outlets on the DP presidential nomination race. In almost all of the results, Hillary Clinton is the frontrunner, Vice Pres. Joe Biden is usually second, and US Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D.-MA) often comes in as number three. There is no consistency at all in the fourth to tenth positions, indicating that opinions of the liberal sector of the electorate on possible candidates is fluid.
One of the polls, the McClatchy-Marist poll, reflects candidate rankings for Sept. 24th to 29th this year:
                                  %
Hillary Clinton           64
Joe Biden                    15
Elizabeth Warren       8
Bernie Sanders           4
Martin O’Malley         2
Jim Webb                    1
Unsure                         6
With something like a 50-point lead over all of her opponents in the McClatchy-Marist poll, Hillary Clinton seems to be a runaway winner of the DP nomination race, two years before election day.
But Clinton only appears to be winning because her support is only broad, but not deep. Indeed, her support is very shallow. Liberals don’t trust her, independents support her as long as she looks like a winner, and reactionaries openly detest her.
The huge lead of Hillary Clinton perhaps discourages Elizabeth Warren ranked No. 3 in McClatchy-Marist poll.
US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) gave an interview to People magazine  in late October 2014 and was asked if she planned to run for president. Her answer showed quite a bit of discouragement.
“I don’t think so,” Warren told PEOPLE in an interview. “If there’s any lesson I’ve learned in the last five years, it’s don’t be so sure about what lies ahead. There are amazing doors that could open. Right now,” She said “I’m focused on figuring out what else I can do from this spot in the U.S. Senate.”
When Sen. Warren says “There are amazing doors that could open” for her, she suggests Hillary Clinton has offered Warren something that is “amazing.”
Clinton has also offered to open doors for Bernie Sanders, but he is not “amazed” or even interested.
Vice Pres. Joe Biden is not a serious candidate. Warren and Bernie Sanders argue that they are 50-points behind Clinton because they don’t have national name recognition. But Biden has enjoyed national name recognition for decades and he still trails Clinton by almost 50-points. Biden trails by almost 50 points because the national electorate knows what he is. Warren and Sanders trail by 50 points because the national electorate hasn’t had a chance to get to know them, unlike Biden.
US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a pit bull of a campaigner, is set to move up in the ranking for the DP presidential nomination, especially if Sen. Warren drops out.
Sander’s strategy is to outflank Clinton on the Left, just as Obama outflanked her in 2008. Clinton loves to reach out and embrace reactionaries. She campaigns for the conservative vote much more than her husband who also had reactionary tendencies. This explains why her support from the liberal sector of the national electorate is more shallow than her husband’s support. But Clinton isn’t worried, at the moment, about Bernie Sanders because she says Sanders’ support is neither broad nor deep.
She hasn’t changed since she lost the DP nomination in 2008.