As for the new poll and Hillary’s negative trajectory overall, I generally agree with this: Despite the DNC’s transparent efforts, and their hapless chairwoman’s hilarious lies about it, it appears that the Democratic nominating contest will not be the wire-to-wire coronation Hillary was banking on. However, Sanders is well known in New Hampshire after three decades in office in neighboring Vermont. Maybe now, however, she realizes that Hillary isn’t the inevitable candidate that the media and the Democratic establishment thought she was.
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Though Clinton’s loss marks the first time she has fallen below a twenty-point lead, the Monmouth report showed that Clinton continues to perform well among minority voters in the states that will follow the New Hampshire and Iowa primaries. The WMUR/CNN poll has Sanders leading with 60 percent of the vote to Clinton’s 33 percent.
Clinton made her pitch in Toledo, Iowa, imploring voters to pay careful attention to what is possible – and what is not – as they decide whether to support her or Sanders’ bid.
Among those voters, Sanders holds an even broader 64 percent to 35 percent lead.
In nearly Trumpian fashion, Sanders has taken to highlighting his poll numbers, donors, and crowd sizes in hopes of proving his legitimacy to voters who may agree with his message, but doubt his chances against Republicans this fall.
McCaskill said it would be “unfair” to compare Trump to Sanders, but said “they are both tapping in to anger, they are both tapping in to a huge number of people in this country that have lost faith that the constitutional government we were given, which requires compromise, is working”.
The most important issue for Democrats remains “jobs/economy” as it has for the most of the race, this is has been the issue Sanders has been harping on and 57 percent think he is best equipped to handle the issue.
In a Sunday night debate with her chief rival for the Democratic nomination for president, the former secretary of state suggested that the Vermont senator’s calls for a single-payer system could undermine the expansions of health care that Democrats have achieved through the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
The University of New Hampshire Survey Center polled 903 likely 2016 general election voters January 13-18.
Clinton, he said, “doesn’t seem to be resonating with mainstream Democrats”.
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The margin of sampling error is 3.1 percent.
