Her standing among Democratic voters was so unassailable that her only challenger was a self-proclaimed democratic socialist running what was perceived as a vanity campaign.
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Clinton’s New York Senate seat is now held by Kirsten Gillibrand, who has made combatting sexual assault a key part of her legislative efforts.
Though her poll numbers have plummeted with most demographics, including female voters, Clinton does enjoy higher levels of support among female voters than her Democratic opponents on a national scale.
The poll also shows that Clinton and Biden are deadlocked at 29 percent for students’ second choice in the Democratic primary.
In what may surprise some observers, Sanders has an advantage over Clinton among both men (44% to 34%) and women (42% to 38%) in the New Hampshire primary.
I’m hard-pressed to imagine how Clinton and her team could have done a worse job of handling the controversy over her State Department emails.
“Yesterday, one of Hillary Clinton’s most prominent Super PACs attacked our campaign pretty viciously”, Sanders wrote in the fundraising email. While the official campaign has remained quiet in regards to Sanders, a Clinton super PAC has linked the Vermont senator to the late Hugo Chavez and claims he would be sympathetic to Middle East terrorist groups, as reported by Talking Points Memo on September 15. But he’s closing the gap on party front-runner Hillary Clinton, and politicos and voters have taken notice.
Six months ago Hillary Clinton’s unstoppable charge to the White House was tethered to the one idea – that it didn’t matter that nobody liked her. The race is tighter among registered Democrats.
Monmouth conducted the poll from September 10-13, surveying 400 likely Democratic primary voters in the state. Over half of her supporters say they would be “okay” with her not winning the nomination.
Meanwhile, Clinton is increasing her media appearances and trying to find new ways to highlight her personality out on the trail.
But the campaign acknowledges that Sanders doesn’t have an endorsement from his colleagues in Congress or in Vermont.
Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton is hemorrhaging support from white female voters, as this once supposedly locked-down voting bloc is now considering other candidates, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell warned Tuesday.
Biden is reportedly planning a visit to Ohio State University.
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“When I get there, peace will be breaking out everywhere, prosperity will be raining down upon you, we will have the new age”, she added.
