The latest Fox News national poll finds 47 percent of Democratic primary voters now back the Vermont senator, up from 37 percent in January.
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Some Sanders supporters, upset about this system, have taken to contacting superdelegates, as the AP reports.
Clinton was continuing to perform better than Sanders nationally, though the gap between the presidential hopefuls has closed in recent weeks. He would have to roll up big margins because every Democratic contest awards delegates in proportion to the vote, so even the loser can get some. But her lead with Sanders has reduced.
Clinton, who recently gave a speech on race in Harlem, wove issues she addressed in the speech into her answer when she was asked about home ownership for Hispanics and was told by the audience member of the hoops he had to jump through to get a home.
Clinton’s campaign has argued that as voters learned more about his record, Sanders will begin to lose support.
Sanders is the only candidate in either party who’s viewed as somewhat or very compassionate, honest and likable by at least half of all registered voters, and has a significant advantage over Clinton among all voters on each of those measures.
“I just have a different sense of how we should be talking about the issues that face us, to enhance the possibility that we keep the White House, and don’t have everything we fought for all this time undone”, he said. But Obama is a Democrat who had worked on campaigns and cultivated relationships with numerous superdelegates. “I’ve been in the trenches since I was 20”.
The Republicans also have some automatic delegates who can support the candidate of their choice but not almost as many. “He’s called him weak, he’s called him disappointing”, Clinton said. “That’s how Barack Obama won”.
Michael Collins, a hospital nurse who is a member of the Service Employees International Union and has been canvassing for Clinton, said he’s encountered enthusiasm for Sanders. “And this process appears to have accelerated since the contests in Iowa and New Hampshire”, said Democratic pollster Chris Anderson.
These party leaders and elected officials can change their minds.
“When I talk about ‘Democratic socialist, ‘ you know what I’m talking about?” But if they continue to back Clinton overwhelmingly, Sanders would have to win the remaining primaries by a landslide just to catch up.
“Bill Clinton has been on the campaign trail making some very nasty comments about me, and I was asked about that”, he said.
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That is “unacceptable, and should not be happening”, Sanders said in response to a woman who told him about her undocumented husband, who was barred from the US for 10 years, after she tried unsuccessfully to bring him out of the shadows. A December poll from the New York Times and CBS News found that guns were the fourth most important problem facing the country-but the poll was conducted days after the San Bernardino shooting. Clinton has the support of women and older electorate.
