Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders in virtual tie in national poll

In that race, Hillary Clinton is now locked in a virtual tie with Bernie Sanders, edging him 44-42 percent.

Nationally, Clinton still enjoys, on average, a comfortable lead over Sanders in polls.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds up a throat lozenge as she speaks at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Tuesday, Feb. 16, 2016, in NY.

Although Hillary Clinton has billed herself as the best candidate for black voters to support but some black leaders aren’t buying it. On Tuesday afternoon, the DMV (DC/Maryland/Virginia) branch of Black Lives Matter called on Hillary to stop “pimping black votes” and start “spending time convincing her bestie [Chicago Mayor] Rahm [Emanuel] to resign”. (Sanders doesn’t use that word, but his description of his spiritual life will strike many voters that way.) Sanders favors tax increases that would fall on nearly everyone to pay for his programs. According to the Sentencing Project, 13 percent of black men could not vote because of criminal records. But that argument may not come across in Republican attack ads.

On net, non-white voters look at Clinton much more favorably than do white voters.

There’s more along these lines.

This was never the intention of the Sanders’ campaign because it is not Sanders job to move Clinton to the left.

The Nevada poll, released by CNN and ORC on Tuesday, found 48 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers said they’d choose Clinton as the party’s nominee, while 47 percent chose Sanders. Sixty-five percentage points more likely, in fact. And as recently as last month, her campaign manager was telling supporters she had a 25-point lead in the state. Which could be important in a state like Texas, were a third of the Democratic primary vote in 2008 was Hispanic – though so far, according to polling from Public Policy Polling, Clinton still leads in Texas thanks to her support from black voters. He says other countries count on the U.S.to side with science and common sense.

It’s a critical contest for Clinton, whose team has argued that she lost the last primary battle, in New Hampshire, because the state is overwhelmingly white, a demographic makeup that her campaign says favors Sanders. “Two different measurements of two dissimilar candidates”.

The Rev. Al Sharpton joked with Clinton in the corridors afterward, suggesting to reporters he had told her which candidate he would endorse. The survey interviewed 602 Republicans with a margin of error of 4 percent and 563 Democrats with a margin of 4.1 percent. In November, Clinton led Sanders 86-11 among African-American voters.

“I thought that the secretary demonstrated an ease and familiarity with numerous issues we discussed this morning”, Marc Morial, the president of the National Urban League, said after a two-hour meeting with former Secretary of State Clinton and a half-dozen civil rights groups at the league’s headquarters.