Miss. Democratic Super Delegate Supporting Sanders

The CNN/WMUR poll shows Sanders trouncing Clinton among independent voters by 45%.

Sanders also renewed his call for breaking up big Wall Street banks, one of the central tenets of his campaign, and his criticism of Clinton for accepting massive speaking fees from Goldman Sachs. Monmouth notes that a full three quarters of the respondents took the survey prior to Sunday night’s Democratic debate, which pundits and voters agreed was won by Sanders.

“How many of these multitudes of people, who show up at trump rallies, are there for the show as opposed to people who turn out and then leave saying I’m absolutely going to vote for this man”, Scala said. Donald Trump fared even worse: 38 percent of those polled said he would be a awful president and 14 percent said he would be a poor president.

The last poll in November gave Clinton 71 percent, Sanders 15 percent and Martin O’Malley 2 percent in SC. More than half the overall public has an unfavorable view of Clinton, and that has been true in the poll for a while.

According to the poll, Sanders’s lead over Clinton in New Hampshire has ballooned by 17 points, 60% to 33%, since the same poll found the Vermont senator holding steady at 50% to Clinton’s 40% in early December.

On the various other issues that were posed to the New Hampshire Democratic primary voters during the poll, there emerged only one clear victor: Bernie Sanders.

Sanders goes on to say that the entire Clinton campaign is in trouble and that is why Hillary is on the offensive.

Ideologically, Sanders is seen as slightly more liberal than the average Democratic voter, Clinton as slightly less liberal than the average Democrat.

Jean Guy, 55, a high school teacher in Carroll, and a precinct chair for Hillary Clinton attended Sanders’ event during her lunch break to assess the competition.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign also released a statement after the poll results were announced, insinuating that Republicans and their super PACs were helping Sanders because they were afraid of facing Clinton in the general elections.

There is a long tradition in US presidential politics of trying to manage public expectations about primaries – candidates consciously put themselves in a position to spin a loss into a moral victory by claiming they did better than they were expected to.