10 Reasons Bernie Sanders will overtake Hillary in National Polls Before the Iowa Caucus (Huffpo)

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10 Reasons Bernie Sanders Will Overtake Hillary Clinton in National Polls Before the Iowa Caucus




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/10-reasons-bernie-sanders-will-overtake-hillary-clinton_b_8205712.html

some of the reasons cited in the article seem duplicative. IOW, I don't see ten distinct reasons. Still, I'd settle for five.

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1. K&R n/t

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2. This is the point they’re simply not getting

Her “shoe in” supporters are abandoning her left and right. Her sex has NOTHING to do with it. She has a credibility issue, and now she’s coming across, through her surrogates & “Correct the Record”, as a bully just as she did when she started her cringeworthy attacks on Obama.

4. Women are leaving the Clinton campaign and supporting Bernie Sanders.

According to a new Washington Post/ABC News poll, "Where 71 percent of Democratic-leaning female voters said in July that they expected to vote for Clinton, only 42 percent do now, a drop of 29 percentage points in eight weeks."

In contrast, The Daily Beast writes that Bernie Sanders has gone from 2% support among Democratic women (in December of 2014) all the way to 27% support by the end of August.