Sanders has always been ahead in New Hampshire, but a CNN/WMUR poll released Tuesday found his support is now almost double hers, with the backing of 60% of the state’s Democrats compared with 33% support for the former secretary of state.
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The Vermont senator now leads Clinton by an imposing 27 percentage points, a figure which might have been deemed impossible by many of Sanders’ own faithful at the start of his campaign at the back end of previous year.
The email said Sanders’s campaign is outspending them on TV in Iowa and New Hampshire “just as voters are starting to pay attention, and the polls are incredibly tight”.
Sanders enjoys a high favorability rating in the Granite State, and while a majority of likely Democratic voters view Hillary favorably, 65 percent, it pales in comparison to the 91 percent who think so of Bernie. And 80 percent of Democrats nationally say they could see themselves voting for Clinton, vs. 67 percent would consider voting for Sanders.
Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters after a campaign event in Nashua, N.H. November 9, 2015.
The total sample in this Economist/YouGov Poll is 2,000, allowing for more analysis of groups of Democratic voters. The idea that Sanders’s potential to win the black vote in SC is analogous to that of the first African-American president does not pass the laugh test. Still, any early-state win for Sanders, even in exceptionally honkified Iowa and New Hampshire, will likely create some sort of generalized bounce. Also confirmed is the fact that media bias reporting on Sanders positive poll results and ignoring or downplaying Clinton’s continues. Al Franken and women’s tennis legend Billy Jean King – along with daughter Chelsea and former President Bill Clinton, who made several stops along the Vermont border where Sanders is most popular.
“I think one of the major obstacles that we face is people say, ‘Well, Bernie, I like your ideas, I like you personally, but you know you can’t win”, Sanders told CNN. Just ask Hillary Clinton 7.0, or whatever operating system we’re on at this point. “The most important foreign policy vote in the modern history of this country took place in 2002”.
During Sunday’s Democratic debate, Spicer tweeted “feelthebern” and later did the Twitter version of a forehead slap when Sanders spoke of normalizing relations with Iran. New Hampshire polls, meanwhile, still strongly lean Sanders, according to RealClearPolitics.
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He then proceeded to rattle off a number of recent national polls and polls from battleground states that showed him beating Trump by a larger margin in a general election than Clinton.
