A new poll shows Bernie Sanders taking the lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, site of the nation’s first presidential primary next year.
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Vice President Joe Biden came in third place in the new poll about Democratic candidates, with 9 percent of the votes. Jim Webb and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee barely got 1 percent.
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.
The number one reason voters give for supporting Sanders is that 68 percent say he “supports issues important to” them. Sanders’ favorability went up about 20 points since March and Clinton’s declined four points. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. – a self-described “democratic socialist”- moving ahead of challenger Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire.
In March, the Franklin Pierce/Boston Herald poll showed Clinton leading Sanders 44 percent to 8 percent.
However-and this is a really big however-this is only one poll, and they surveyed 442 New Hampshire residents, meaning that in this sample size, Sanders led Hillary by roughly 30 people.
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Among poll respondents 65 and older, the 67-year-old Clinton had more than 50 percent support, compared to less than 30 percent for Sanders. Sanders garnered huge crowds on his West Coast swing through cannabis-friendly locales all the while, some political pundits try to downplay Sanders’ campaign, waiting for his support to peak as the conventional wisdom is that he won’t appeal to any constituency beyond his liberal base. Sanders. Clinton’s campaign has suffered amid the revelation that she may have broken the law by using a private email server while serving as secretary of state under Barack Obama. Still though, the campaign called those numbers progress in a statement: “The more people know about Bernie the better they like him and the ideas he has for how to help the middle class and take on the billionaire class”. Only 35 percent of likely primary voters felt “excited” about Clinton’s candidacy, while 51 percent said that, while they could see themselves voting for her, they weren’t enthusiastic about it.
