Hillary Clinton Holds Large National Lead over Bernie Sanders

“I like him, he likes me”.

On the other hand, Clinton is standing with the backing of roughly 32 percent, while the yet undecided Joe Biden has just over 11 percent.

The debate was the first of three events this month that are seen as important tests for Clinton, whose candidacy has been hurt by questions about the security of the private email server and account she used while serving as secretary of state.

After months of steady decline in the polls amid widespread distrust and suspicion among Democrats, Clinton turned things around in last Tuesday’s debate in Las Vegas and now leads Sanders in national polling by 20 points or more. In the CNN/ORC poll, most Democratic voters said they didn’t think Biden should get in the field, and in the NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll, more Democrats who had an opinion about Biden said he should stay out rather than jump in. Lindsey Graham, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, former New York Gov. George Pataki and former Pennsylvania Sen. Ahead of him was Jim Webb at roughly 15 minutes (oh boy, and he was pissed!), Martin O’Malley at 17 minutes, Sanders at almost 28 minutes, and Clinton at 30-ish minutes. All remaining candidates received one percent or less.

Democratic voters are divided on whether there will be enough debates before voting begins in February.

Democrats are divided on whether Sanders could win a general election, with 52 percent saying he could and 46 percent saying he could not.

The debate has given a slight boost in name recognition to all the participants except the already well-known Clinton. Both have high unfavorability rating and Clinton continues to poll poorly against a few of the Republican candidates. A new WBUR poll marks the third recent survey to document her comeback in the state where she has trailed US Senator Bernie Sanders for months.

Sanders is running second at 23% nearly the identical number he held in September. In reality, only three of these candidates, Sen.

“When you go to your public library, when you call your fire department or the police department, what do you think you’re calling?”

Support for a Biden presidential bid is dropping among Democrats.

Support for Sanders, an independent senator from Vermont and the only genuine challenger to ex-secretary of state Clinton, is down from 35 percent to 29 percent. In September he was behind -18 points (24% – 42%).

The survey, which included 400 people who said they would vote in a Democratic primary, was conducted October 15-18. This voter sample has a margin of error of + 5.3 percent.