Sanders rockets past Hillary in New Hampshire

“They want to look more at other people in addition to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders is the beneficiary of that right now”, said Eric Davis, political scientist. New Hampshire also has a habit of rewarding underdog candidates fighting well-financed favorites, including Democrat Gary Hart’s win over Walter Mondale in 1984 and Republican John McCain’s triumph over George W. Bush in 2000.

Sanders’ senior adviser Tad Devine was cautiously hopeful about the poll, but acknowledged the campaign is still a fundraising underdog compared to Clinton’s.

A Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll has Sen.

While Hillary Clinton has a commanding lead in Iowa over Vermont Sen. A national Fox News poll released last week shows that Clinton’s lead over Sanders has dropped to its lowest margin so far.

Apart from Vice President Joe Biden, who got 9 percent in the Herald/Franklin Pierce poll, the rest of the candidates in the Democratic field “barely register at 1 percent or below”. It has a margin of error of 4.7 percent, putting Clinton and Sanders effectively in a dead heat, with maximum support for Clinton topping out at 41.7 percent, while Sanders bottoms out at 39.3 percent.

Scala says Sanders has effectively taken over the “not Clinton” vote, including many of those who hoped Senator Elizabeth Warren would run.

The results highlight the low confidence many Americans have in Clinton who, despite her overall popularity among Democrats, can t quite shake a series of scandals that have caused voters to question her trustworthiness. But more importantly, Bernie Sanders has really upped his game. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. – a self-described “democratic socialist”- moving ahead of challenger Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. The left-wing darling has racked up giant crowds on his West Coast campaign swing – the largest of any candidate of either party to date, with almost 70,000 supporters swamping arenas in Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles and the Sanders campaign swelling its grassroots email and fundraising list in equal measure.