Sanders Gives Clinton a ‘Nightmare’ Scenario in NH

Polls show that Clinton is still leading in Iowa, while Sanders has bypassed her to gain a slight lead in New Hampshire.

“… We have got to create millions of decent- paying jobs by rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure”, Sanders said, adding that his plan would greatly benefit the middle class.

Fresh off a strong debate performance and buoyed by rising poll numbers, Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders returned to Iowa with an air of vindication. Clinton still leads by double digits in national polls, underscoring her electability in the general election, yet Sanders also leads in Iowa.

The poll was conducted by University of New Hampshire Survey Center for CNN/WMUR and polled 972 New Hampshire adults by telephone.

But the self-described Democratic Socialist from Vermont is on a roll, with the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary less than a month away.

While this certainly doesn’t spell doom for Clinton’s candidacy, it feeds into the narrative that (a) voters feel like they already know everything about the former first lady, and (b) there’s an unfamiliar, nearly exciting air to Sanders. The poll-which quizzed 927 of the state’s likely Democrats from January 13 to 18-shows Bernie Sanders has expanded a solid lead in early December by 10 points to an insane 27-point lead with a 4.8-point margin of error. When Biden was included in the poll, Clinton led with 60 percent followed by Biden with 16 percent, Sanders with 15 percent and O’Malley slipping back to 2 percent.

Clinton also had a slight edge over Sanders on gun control and health care – 39% favored Clinton on guns to Sanders’ 21%, while 36% favored Clinton on healthcare against 30% for Sanders. It will be interesting to see how the candidates, Democrat and Republican alike, buckle down in the next few weeks to prepare themselves for these important primaries.

“Sanders is aided by the fact that most Super Tuesday contests are open to independent voters – a group where he performs well”.

He doesn’t expect Clinton to lose the Palmetto State, but he sees Sanders making a good showing that will make other states take notice. Clinton, however, continues to be viewed by 55 percent of voters as the best candidate to handle ISIS.

During Sunday’s Democratic debate, Spicer tweeted “feelthebern” and later did the Twitter version of a forehead slap when Sanders spoke of normalizing relations with Iran.