Bernie Sanders is a ‘total whack job’

US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has significantly expanded his lead over front-runner Hillary Clinton in the key state of New Hampshire, according to the latest poll.

Mrs. Clinton had the support of 52 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters in the national Monmouth University poll, released Tuesday, to Mr. Sanders’ 37 percent support.

The last poll in November gave Clinton 71 percent, Sanders 15 percent and Martin O’Malley 2 percent in SC. Notably, they sent Clinton’s daughter Chelsea to New Hampshire to attack Bernie Sanders’ healthcare plan.

The Vermont senator now leads Clinton by an imposing 27 percentage points, a figure which might have been deemed impossible by many of Sanders’ own faithful at the start of his campaign at the back end of previous year. Some 44 percent of people polled think Clinton will have the best chance at beating Trump, whereas only 16 percent favor Sanders. However, that could also be attributed to the fact that she served in his administration and has been facing a stronger-than-expected primary challenge from Sen.

Though Sanders is from the neighboring state of Vermont, Hillary still won the New Hampshire primary in 2008. In December that group favored Clinton by 26 points, but the most recent poll shows Sanders now behind by just 9 points. “The Sanders argument falls apart when the GOP spokesman is trying to help him and the Republicans run ads trying to stop Hillary Clinton in the primary”.

Anyway Clintonworld is counting on Bernie Sanders not being able to do well with black voters because a Killer Mike viral video is not the same thing as actual black voters knowing who the hell you are. That’s improved since December, when 83% had a positive take on the neighboring state’s senator.

However, Clinton continues to be perceived as the most electable Democratic – or Republican – candidate.

There is a long tradition in US presidential politics of trying to manage public expectations about primaries – candidates consciously put themselves in a position to spin a loss into a moral victory by claiming they did better than they were expected to.

The Sanders surge has the Clinton campaign anxious enough to send out an email that told supporters, “there’s a real possibility we could lose both contests”, something that would have been unthinkable a few months ago.