New Polling Shows Bernie Sanders, Not Clinton, MOST Formidable Against Trump

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The NBC News/SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking Poll found that if the 2016 presidential election were held today, 53 to 40 percent of voters would elect Sanders over Donald Trump—which is more than double the margin that Hillary Clinton holds over the presumptive Republican nominee. According to the survey, which was conducted online from May 2 through May 8, the former secretary of state also leads Trump, but with a far smaller margin: 49 to 44 percent, with an error estimate of plus or minus 1.3 percentage points.


Meanwhile, a separate poll found that in key presidential swing states the anointed nominees are running neck and neck. The latest Quinnipiac University survey released Tuesday shows Clinton beating Trump by just one point—43 to 42 percent—in both Florida and Pennsylvania. In Ohio, the real estate mogul holds a four-point lead over Clinton, with 43 to 39 percent.


Echoing the NBC News findings, Sanders bests Trump in all three of those states' hypothetical match-ups. The Vermont senator leads by two percentage points in both Florida and Ohio (44-42 percent and 43-41 percent, respectively) while beating Trump 47 to 41 percent in Pennsylvania. The Quinnipiac survey notes that "since 1960 no candidate has won the presidential race without taking at least two of these three states."

"If Democrats want to have the strongest candidate against Donald Trump they should look at those polls," Sanders declared during a rally at New Jersey's Rutgers University on Sunday. National polls have repeatedly shown Sanders beating Trump by a larger margin than Clinton.

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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/05/10/new-polling-shows-sanders-not-clinton-most-formidable-against-trump

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1. Hillary Clinton is an overrated, bloated weak candidate who will lose against Trump in the GE

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4. I agree she is a weak candidate.

We would have never known of her but for her marriage to Bill Clinton. She gained national prominence through marriage, not hard work. This shows in her inability to inspire voters outside of her Democratic status quo and PUMA comfort zone.

[NurseJackie]

2. Yet still he's losing to Hillary.

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5. Did I forget to mention that she's a bloated candidate?...

No, I see I did mention that nugget in my post.

carry on........

[NurseJackie]

10. You mean your follow-up post to your own OP? The one ...

... that you typed while I was typing my reply, and the one you posted just moments before I clicked "submit"? That one?

and

My comment stands. If Bernie can't convince enough people that Hillary is the flawed and "bloated" candidate you say she is, then he's not doing a very good job, is he?

(BTW: your choice of the word "bloated" did not go unnoticed. It wasn't as clever as you think.)

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12. Hillary is a 'bloated' candidate is as mildly as I could say....

btw.....don't consider your response as being at all close to 'clever'......convincing yourself is not such a high mountain to climb.....it really isn't......


but carry on....... .....and drink...

[azurnoir]

7. yes Hillary is so willing to compromise-anything including abortion she said so herself

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/46gb2v/hillary_clinton_i_could_compromise_on_abortion_if/

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3. Bernie is within the margin of error just as Hillary is. And Bernie has not been attacked yet...by

Trump or Hillary.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Ignore it. It doesn't favor Hillary.

You know the rules around here.

[puffy socks]

8. ...

Desperation Reeks

[BlueStateLib]

9. Michael Dukakis was up 18 points

Jimmy Carter was up 8 points May 1980

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11. And yet, BS can't win the Democratic Primary .. just shows how weak a candidate he is n/t

[NCTraveler]

13. Where does O'Malley poll. If they are polling for "also rans" it would be respectful to include him.

This is actually an old method to create division by the corporate media. Never has their target been this easy or eager to go along.

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14. Quinnipiac has constantly oversampled whites of late and

these cross-tabs show that not only would Clinton get less of the white vote than Obama, but that the white share of the total vote would actually increase for the first time in three decades. So yeah; bad polls.