--- title: Biden Would Enter 2016 Race in the Lead Says New Poll description: The VP would be the most popular candidate for President if he gets the nomination canonical: https://time.com/4053627/biden-2016-popularity-poll/ author: Denver Nicks article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-09-29T12:34:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:20:51.127Z article:section: Politics og:title: Biden Would Enter 2016 Race in the Lead Says New Poll og:description: The VP would be the most popular candidate for President if he gets the nomination og:url: https://time.com/4053627/biden-2016-popularity-poll/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb4cf378dfb5f437/698865ec524fc03ca1df4c3b/joe-biden5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: Joe Biden og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Biden Would Enter 2016 Race in the Lead Says New Poll twitter:description: The VP would be the most popular candidate for President if he gets the nomination twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb4cf378dfb5f437/698865ec524fc03ca1df4c3b/joe-biden5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Biden Is Democrats' Best Hope For President, Poll Says > Sponsored content. 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Vice President of the United States Joe Biden attends 2015 Global Citizen Festival to end extreme poverty by 2030 in Central Park in New York City, on Sept. 26, 2015. Michael Kovac—Getty Images  by [Denver Nicks](https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/)  ## Denver Nicks Sep 29, 2015 12:34 PM UTC If Vice President Joe Biden does decide to make a run for the presidency in 2016 he’ll start off the race as the most popular candidate in either party, [according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll out Tuesday](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/biden-would-enter-2016-race-most-popular-candidate-poll-n435076?nl=nytnow&em%5Fpos=large&emc=edit%5Fnn%5F20150929). In the poll 40 percent of Americans say they have a positive impression of the Vice President and former Senator from Delaware, while just 28 percent have a negative impression—an enviable differential of +12 points. That outperforms Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (+10) and Sec. of State Hillary Clinton (-8), as well as leading GOP candidates Ben Carson (+8), Carly Florin (+7) and Donald Trump (-33). Were the election held today, Biden would outperform both leading Democrats in head to head matches with leading Republicans. The Vice President loses, however, in hypothetical matches with both leading Democrats, winning 17 percent to Sanders’ 35 percent and Clinton’s 42 percent. Biden’s popularity is likely attributable in part to the fact that he hasn’t announced a run for president and thus hasn’t been subjected to the harsh public scrutiny of the campaign trail, which tends to take some of the luster of new candidates after awhile. “History has shown that the public has a much harsher filter when people become candidates,” pollster Bill McInturff told NBC News. The poll of 1,000 U.S. adults—400 of whom were reached by cell phone—was conducted between September 20 and September 24. \[[NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/biden-would-enter-2016-race-most-popular-candidate-poll-n435076?nl=nytnow&em%5Fpos=large&emc=edit%5Fnn%5F20150929)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4053627/biden-2016-popularity-poll/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4053627/biden-2016-popularity-poll/"},"headline":"Biden Is Democrats' Best Hope For President, Poll Says","datePublished":"2015-09-29T12:34:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:20:51.127Z","description":"The VP would be the most popular candidate for President if he gets the nomination","url":"https://time.com/4053627/biden-2016-popularity-poll/","keywords":["2016 Campaign","Hillary Clinton","Joe Biden","2016","campaign","Donald Trump"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb4cf378dfb5f437/698865ec524fc03ca1df4c3b/joe-biden5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Denver Nicks","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/denver-nicks/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blteb4cf378dfb5f437/698865ec524fc03ca1df4c3b/joe-biden5.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Joe Biden","caption":"Joe Biden","creditText":"Michael Kovac—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-campaign/","name":"2016 Campaign"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4053627/biden-2016-popularity-poll/","name":"Biden Is Democrats' Best Hope For President, Poll Says"}}]}] ```