NORC Poll: Democrats big on inequality, market regulation

That said, Sanders is certainly running an idealistic campaign, but there’s nothing to say he can’t back off when the need arises.

With Ohio’s primary just over three weeks away, campaigns for all presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat, will accelerate quickly in Ohio. “And as a superdelegate, I’ll follow through and vote for him when we get to the convention in July”.

Sanders spokesman Michael Briggs on Thursday distanced the Vermont senator from comments made by rapper Killer Mike at a recent Sanders rally in Atlanta.

On former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who ran against Obama in 2008, Plouffe said that unlike Sanders “there’s no question that she’s been a more steadfast supporter”.

Sanders says though he thinks Hillary Clinton’s politics are “feeble” – but blames her husband for starting the animosity between the presidential contenders, The Daily Beast reports.

Sanders has gained momentum after his 22-point New Hampshire primary win.

Much of Sanders’ work was in Chicago, where he worked to desegregate student housing as a member of the Congress of Racial Equality.

Ms Liston said this was the first political rally she has ever attended – and Saturday will be the first time she has participated in the Nevada caucuses. Moreover, a younger generation of black voters, laden with school debt and tired of waiting for wages to improve, are open to government involvement in more areas of the economy, including Sanders’s promise to push for more affordable, if not free, college educations.

According to a Quinnipiac University National survey released Wednesday, 39 percent of Republican voters said they would support the controversial businessman’s campaign, compared to just 19 percent who would back his next-closest competitor, U.S. Sen. Even if we like aspects of the candidates that seek the approval of the party machine, endorsing any part of that machine chafes.

The poll conducted by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research suggested support within the party for Sanders’ fiery calls to increase regulations on Wall Street banks and address wide gaps between the nation’s wealthy and poor.

“Obama seemed to start with the right idea, motivating people, getting young people energised and activated to vote”, said Debra Mayes of Los Angeles.

Women were more likely to support Clinton and men to support Sanders. The older Sanders predicts a win for his brother if he manages to get the nomination.

One South Carolinian, Branden Simpson, is interested in Sanders’s message, but he won’t be voting next week.

Sanders and Clinton are not attractive people, and the country is heading into another recession. “[If] if he thinks he’s got the constitutional power to do something-he will do it”.

Tad Devine, Sanders’ top political strategist, signaled that thinking when he told reporters the campaign senses growing support among younger Nevada Hispanics.