On Eve of NH, Sanders Wins Women Voters, Trounces GOP

[Ferd Berfel]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/02/08/eve-nh-sanders-wins-women-voters-trounces-gop


The senator from Vermont has 16-point lead on Clinton in New Hampshire, and other results show he'd win against any Republican nominee, which Clinton wouldn't

Bernie Sanders is not only ahead of Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, where the next U.S. presidential primary will take place on February 9, he is also leading her among female voters and proves more electable against Republican rivals, several new surveys show.

A tracking poll released Monday by UMass Lowell/7News shows that the senator from Vermont leads Clinton by 16 points among likely Democratic voters, claiming 56 percent support to Clinton's 40 percent support.

He would also beat any Republican nominee in a hypothetical face-off by double digits, while Clinton would beat Donald Trump and Ted Cruz by five-point margins and lose to Marco Rubio, the poll found.

Monday's poll comes on the heels of a CNN-WMUR survey released Sunday which found Sanders ahead of Clinton among women in New Hampshire by eight percentage points, a huge jump since last week's Iowa caucuses, where Clinton won among female voters by 11 points.

[AtomicKitten]

1. And Albright and Steinem made such a complelling case to millenium women ...

Why young feminists are choosing Bernie Sanders over Hillary Clinton
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-clinton-millennial-women-20160203-story.html

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In Iowa this week, women 29 and younger voted for Clinton’s challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders, by a stunning margin of roughly 6 to 1, much as young men did, according to the poll of voters arriving at precinct caucuses conducted for the television networks and the Associated Press.

In advance of Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary, polls have shown Sanders holding the support of a majority of young women here, as well – a sharp contrast to Clinton’s dominance among women closer to her own age.

The problem is not rejection of feminism – surveys suggest millennial women are the most staunchly feminist group of voters in America. They want to see a woman in the White House. Just not necessarily this woman.

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[hedda_foil]

2. This is such exciting news; I could plotz from the kvelling

[LWolf]

3. I'm feeling it all the way from the left coast.

[ebayfool]

4. Oh yeah! And it will keep building the more that voters get to know him! n/t