Sanders Leads Clinton In NH
All of Clinton’s numbers have plunged significantly since March, when Franklin Pierce University last surveyed the Granite State.
The survey, conducted August. 7-10, found that just 11 percent of New Hampshire’s Democratic voters think Sanders will win the nomination.
Vice President Joe Biden may very well join the short list of Democratic candidates on the primary ballot, and his earnest, down-to-earth style could be the latest threat to Hillary Clinton’s campaign as it struggles with the growing email scandal and U.S. Sen. Though most pundits say his odds of defeating her are still quite long, he is gaining ground on the former secretary of state in key states like Iowa and New Hampshire.
Sanders pulling ahead of Clinton in the poll marks the first time that Hillary has trailed any of her Democratic rivals in the campaign for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination.
He has not entered the presidential race, and he’s reportedly still considering whether he ever will, but he still managed to pull 9 percent of the support in that New Hampshire Poll. Three other Democrats – Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb – register at 1% or less.
Thirty-five percent of those polled said they are “excited” about Clinton and 51 percent said they could support her, but are less than enthusiastic about her campaign, the Boston Herald report said.
The source who got a call from Biden this week said, “I think he is doing the analysis and homework”. It’s entirely plausible to conclude that the true value of the race is simply outside the error margins of the poll (which, if there’s no “herding” or methodological tinkering, should happen once every 20 polls), without discounting the data entirely or disparaging the source.
According to Bernie’s Facebook page, the senator recently drew a crowd of 28,000 in Portland, 27,500 in Los Angeles, and 15,000 in Seattle.
McCaskill, who declared her support for Hillary Clinton back in 2013, told CNN’s “New Day” that both Sanders and Trump are tapping into public “cynicism and frustration with the government”.
Bernie Sanders has certainly captured the hearts of progressives in the Democratic Party and many of those that have been fed up with politics as usual.