Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders to meet with Ferguson

And now, for the first time in CNN/ORC polling, his gains among the Republican Party have boosted him enough to be competitive in the general election.

During the past quarter century or so, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Joe Biden have collaborated and competed, shared more than a dozen staffers and served together in a presidential Cabinet.

This agenda is what we can expect from another Democrat in the White House, so it really does not matter who is nominated.

Clinton now leads Trump by 51% to 45%, a dramatically more competitive race than July’s 56-40 spread and June’s 59-35, the poll results showed.

While Clinton maintains the Democratic edge, the positive impressions of her are fading, driven largely by concern over the lingering scandal about her use of a private e-mail account and private server while secretary of state.

Hillary Clinton; Sen. Among all adults, the new poll finds 44 percent hold a favorable view of her, 53 percent an unfavorable one, her most negative favorability rating since March 2001.

Despite her hectic schedule, Hillary Clinton was still able to tear it up on the dance floor. The lies and the reports about classified material are eating away at the public’s trust and her lead in the polls. She leads Bush by a almost identical margin, 52 percent to 43 percent. That six point gap matches the spread between Clinton and Walker, with the Democrat leading 52-46% (down from nine points in July).

Biden’s former Senate staffers say Clinton wasn’t a frequent customer within the subsequent years; they sat on separate committees and targeted on totally different points. One top Democratic strategist said she’s “not putting any money” on whether Biden will run, noting that decision will likely come from the Vice President’s gut.

Overall, 47% of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters say they support Clinton for the party’s nomination.

The poll of only 442 respondents to the Franklin Pierce University survey in conjunction with the Boston Herald allowed for a 4.7 percent margin of error.

At the same time, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) has surged 10 percentage points since last month. It’s true that these numbers aren’t good news for the former secretary of State.

On social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, Sanders has been reliably progressive (though on another divisive social issue, gun control, his record has been more mixed.) And on foreign policy, he’s tended to be dovish, generally backing diplomatic action over the use of military force.

Even without his own copter, Sanders has been drawing increasingly larger crowds on campaign stops. In the modern era (since 1972), the non-incumbent candidates who were similarly “inevitable” to Clinton, judging by the number of endorsements they had early on in the race, were Bob Dole in 1996, Al Gore in 2000, and George W. Bush in 2000. Clinton is the choice of 50 percent of such voters, with Sanders jumping to 38 percent among that group, Biden at 6 percent, and O’Malley at 2 percent. Al Gore has advisers who have friends whove told reporters that they might have heard about conversations spitballing about a possible Gore run. What qualities do you think are most important in a Democratic primary candidate, and which contender best meets those criteria? If Clinton gets more bad news in the coming weeks about her emails or if it turns out the FBI is capable of resurrecting the material on the wiped server, all of the clever tactics she is employing against the vice president won’t matter much.