Sanders volunteers passed out laminated testimonials from casino workers who had come on board – porters, servers, cooks, stage techs. Marco Rubio among voters without a college degree, the exit poll showed. His campaign cited progress with Latinos in Nevada, but his advisers are clear-eyed about the challenges on Super Tuesday. “There are social conservatives here who are not necessarily self-identified evangelicals but I think they find him perhaps more appealing compared to Trump”, Tuman said.
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Sanders has money for the long haul, although Clinton had more on hand at the end of January. Clinton also polled well on issues like immigration, race relations and women’s issues: 61 percent said they trusted Clinton more to handle women’s issues, 39 percent said they trusted her most on immigration and 44 percent said they thought she was best equipped to improve race relations. It’s one that Clinton has been able to neither neutralize nor fully appropriate as her own, although she recently has stepped up her rhetoric against Wall Street.
Clinton’s win yesterday means that opportunity has come and gone. “The last poll I saw in my old state of Vermont had us at 80 percent, so I think we’ve got a shot to win there”.
Matthew Wilson, a professor of political science at Southern Methodist University, said Clinton’s narrow in Nevada win likely doesn’t change anything.
Few observers had foreseen Sanders as a serious threat to Clinton. “The banks have lobbyists, and that’s why so many people can’t get ahead”. I think there’s an underlying question that maybe is really in the back of people’s minds and that is, ‘Is she in it for us or is she in it for herself?’ ” Clinton told CNN’s Jake Tapper in an interview aired Sunday on “State of the Union”.
Sanders’ prolific online fundraising has given him staying power and he has pledged to take his campaign into the Democratic convention in July.
That’s enough to stay competitive, and Sanders’ team is eyeing delegates in March 1 states such as Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma and his home state.
“Thank you, Nevada, thank you so much!”
Sanders’ camp, meanwhile, has disputed Clinton camp assertions that she drew the lion’s share of the union votes in the Nevada contest, accusing her campaign of inventing figures. But the high margin of error in the polls makes it impossible to say with confidence whether either candidate held a lead among the group. To actually win the nomination, Sanders acknowledged Sunday, he will have to begin winning again, as he did when he trounced Clinton in New Hampshire.
That analysis assumes proportional turnout by race within any given precinct, and perhaps more importantly, assumes that once caucusgoers arrived, the vote along racial and ethnic lines for those Latinos who voted in heavily Hispanic precincts was about the same as that seen in Hispanics voting in other precinct locations around the state, something that can’t be proven by either entrance polls or this style of precinct-level analysis. She flew from Nevada on Saturday to Texas, a huge delegate prize, for a late-night rally in Houston.
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Donald Trump is rejecting the idea that the Republican nomination is his to lose after his big win in SC. However, according to RealClearPolitics (RCP), a non-partisan organization that averages election polling data, Clinton’s average polling percentage is in a steady decline that has resulted in a more mediated average between the two democrats.
