Good and Bad News from the latest national Quinnipiac poll.
Good news first: Bernie is at 35% nationally. Around 40% of Clinton's supports are willing to change their minds on who they support. His favorability rating is positive. People believe he is honest and trustworthy and that he cares the most about the issues. Against Republicans, he performs at the same level as Clinton, which leads to the bad news.
Bad news: Both Hillary and Bernie are losing to most of the Republicans (other polls say differently, so it's probably a toss up). Hillary is viewed as the stronger leader with more experience, which are two areas people deemed important when making their choice. Despite people liking Bernie more than Hillary and arguably viewing him as the better candidate, he's still losing.
Here's one more interesting tidbit.
Question 90. If you honestly assessed yourself, thinking in general about - a democratic socialist president of the United States, is that something you'd be entirely comfortable with, somewhat comfortable, somewhat uncomfortable or entirely uncomfortable with?
COLLEGE DEG
Tot Rep Dem Ind Men Wom Yes No
Entrly comfortable 22% 5% 41% 19% 22% 21% 28% 19%
Smwht comfortable 17 4 29 16 15 19 16 17
Smwht uncomfortable 17 13 15 21 16 17 15 17
Entrly uncomfortable 40 77 8 39 44 37 37 42
DK/NA 5 2 7 5 3 6 4 5
AGE IN YRS.............. WHITE.....
18-34 35-49 50-64 65+ Men Wom Wht Blk
Entrly comfortable 37% 23% 16% 17% 23% 20% 22% 20%
Smwht comfortable 29 15 14 15 11 14 12 35
Smwht uncomfortable 12 17 19 16 13 18 16 15
Entrly uncomfortable 20 39 48 46 50 43 46 19
DK/NA 3 6 3 6 3 5 4 12
To put those numbers in perspective, they're about the same as the question that asked if people would be comfortable electing a Muslim. This is what we're up against. I think the Sanders campaign saw this coming, which is why they are finally going to address it by Bernie giving his speech before the next debate.
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