Sanders is the Most Liked Candidate, and His Popularity is Growing: Poll

[Ferd Berfel]

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/04/12/sanders-most-liked-candidate-and-his-popularity-growing-poll

Survey finds 48 percent of Americans have favorable view of Sanders, contrasting with 55 percent who hold unfavorable view of rival Hillary Clinton

Bernie Sanders is the most-liked presidential candidate in the race—and the more people get to know him, the more they like him, according to a new poll out Tuesday.

The Associated Press-GfK survey found that 48 percent of Americans hold a favorable view of Sanders, compared with 39 percent who view him unfavorably, giving him the best "net-positive" rating in the field, and that his likeability score has increased since previous polls.

Sixty-one percent of registered voters said they would consider voting for him in November. Among Democrats alone, he has a 72 percent favorability rating.

Meanwhile, Sanders' Democratic rival Hillary Clinton got 55 percent unfavorability versus 40 percent favorability ratings among all survey respondents, and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump scored 69 unfavorability to 29 favorability. In addition, 51 percent of respondents said they would never vote for Clinton and 63 percent said the same of Trump.

[CoffeeCat]

1. Clinton and Trump unfavorable ratings

Wow, Clinton's unfavorables are a whopping 55 percent; Trumps are 69 percent.

If these two run, it will be a battle of the two of the most hated political candidates in America.

Lovely. Just lovely.

[Armstead]

6. It does not auger well for her ability to govern

[Ferd Berfel]

8. Yeah , it would almost make you think the system was rigged!

[jillan]

2. Yet she is the candidate the msm is pushing on us. The same msm that pushed for the IWR. nt

[ViseGrip]

3. Cuz the MSM is now private, corporate, and she's wall streets gal.

[bkkyosemite]

4. Doesn't it seem strange to any one that the two with the worst unfavorable ratings are said

to be the front runners.

[Rebkeh]

5. Great post! This is what I've been saying

The least liked of all the candidates are the front runners.

[Armstead]

7. What's really bad is those are rising as peopel see her more

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/clinton_favorableunfavorable-1131.html

I can't link to the chart, but the trendines between Fav and UnFav on this as the primary has progressed is not good....to say the least. By November it'll look like the Grand Canyon

[Ferd Berfel]

9. Another problem with a Clinton/Trump/Cruz GE

is that she will demotivate the base and the turnout (on both sides but especially on teh Dem side) will be miserably low which will screw up the Down-ticket races.

I"m afraid that the clinton crowd thinks they will be able to get voters out but scaring them with (FEAR) the 'boogie-man' approach. I doubt that even Bernie (stumping for her) can fix that.

[tabasco]

10. H. Clinton is only polling 2.5 points ahead of TED CRUZ.

This is getting frightening.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/