On Saturday, she is joining the other presidential candidates from the Democrats in Iowa at the Jefferson Jackson Dinner. But among the almost half of Democratic voters who did not see any of the debate, 26% are under the impression that Clinton did better than expected while 16% say the same of Sanders. Jim Webb of Virginia. Joe Biden came out as the debate’s biggest loser despite (and perhaps because of) the fact that he did not participate, dropping four points to poll at 18 percent. Bernie Sanders has also surged, from 7 points in September to 20 points this month, according to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll that was also released Tuesday.
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Vice President Joe Biden, endlessly considering whether to run, is at 15 percent, down 2 percent since September.
Now that we’ve had a few days to decompress and conduct some systematic polling as to who won the debate, it’s even clearer that, yes, Hillary Clinton won the Democratic debate, but Bernie Sanders also didn’t lose.
Overall, 31 percent of registered Democrats say they watched all or most of the CNN/Facebook debate, held October 13 in Las Vegas.
In a CNN/ORC poll, billionaire businessman Donald Trump remains in first place with 27% of support of registered Republicans surveyed. In the WBUR survey, Clinton trails Sanders by 12 points among men, but leads him by 17 points among women.
Similarly, an ABC/Washington Post poll shows Clinton making a rebound at the cost of Sanders and Biden. As the blog FiveThirtyEight recently pointed out, she’s enjoyed near-unanimous support from the Democratic establishment, high favorability ratings among Democrats, a solid lead in national polls, and frankly, relatively weak opposition.
The Sanders camp told BuzzFeed News that 33 percent of its 193 staffers are people of color, which represents a significant bump up from the 10 percent Inclusive counted during the summer.
In addition, on gun policy, there’s a sharp gender divide.
“Before the presidential race started to heat up, the presumed top candidates were always Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush – the establishment candidates”, Professor Rothermel said.
In a contrast with the Republican primary field, which has been marked by the rise of candidates with little governmental experience, two-thirds of Democratic voters say they prefer someone who has experience in Washington to an outsider. Given that, older voters are more likely to vote in elections generally, this gender gap work in her favor. In addition, the results suggest the main primetime debate next Wednesday will feature all the candidates who graced the main stage of the last debate, except for Scott Walker, who dropped out of the race.
It is interesting that a majority of those polled by CNN felt that Clinton was the victor, but Sanders got the boost.
No other candidate comes close to Trump or Carson.
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