Donald Trump leads Ted Cruz, John Kasich by 15 points in NH

On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders, but her statewide disapproval ratings are the highest of any top candidate on either ticket.

“The Republicans have what you might call a “deep bench” of presidential candidates in Tennessee”, Blake said.

Clinton’s praise for Obama has become a regular feature of her standard campaign speech as she tries to rally his core supporters, especially single women, African-Americans, Latinos and young people. In those contests, Sanders outperformed Clinton, thanks in part to his support from self-described independent voters. Martin O’Malley is at just 1 percent.

Trump continues to lead the Republican field with 31 percent, down 3 points in the past two weeks. If it were otherwise, then we wouldn’t be seeing candidates like Ted Cruz, who has been in the Senate for less time than Rubio and lacks his legislative experience, and Donald Trump, who has never held an elected or appointed government office in his lifetime, leading in the polls. Rubio had 16 percent and Carson had 10 percent, while the rest of the contenders had less than five percent support.

But 47 percent of self-described Democratic voters in the sample picked Clinton as the candidate they’d most like to see win the presidency.

In the race for the Republican nomination, long time front-runner Trump maintains favor among likely Wisconsin voters with 24 percent of voter support. Three percent said they would not vote, and 13 percent were undecided.

In other words, there is a huge vein of new voters to be tapped by the California GOP among “decline-to-state” voters who have leaned Republican in the past, and who might really like the opportunity to pull the lever for Trump enough to come back to the Republican Party.

Unlike Clinton, Sanders is an open socialist who is not afraid to also be an idealist in achieving his goals. The numbers heading from Carson to Cruz and Trump are nearly identical, with just a shade fewer leaving for Rubio.

Meanwhile, in terms of solving the problem of the country in terms of economy, illegal immigration, foreign policy, and other social issues such as same sex marriage and abortion, Trump still leads the pack as the candidate likely to best handle these situations.

Nine in 10 blacks and eight in 10 Hispanics are nervous about the thought of him as president vs. 62 percent of whites.

The transformation of the two-party system of Republicans and Democrats has taken on a new dimension in the upcoming presidential election. But most of Sanders’ support comes from people who are not so much angry as despairing. About 44 percent of Republicans say Trump is a “very” or “somewhat religious” person. About one out of four of those surveyed, the largest segment being Democrats, said they wouldn’t support Trump as the nominee.

“He would split the ‘We want a NY billionaire vote, ‘” McCaskill added.

The poll surveyed 732 registered Pennsylvania voters from January 18-23.