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New Poll Shows Bernie Sanders Gaining Ground in New Hampshire
New Poll Shows Bernie Sanders Gaining Ground in New HampshireA new poll out of New Hampshire, home to the first presidential primaries of 2016, shows Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) gaining support among Democrats in his campaign to upset Hillary Clinton and win the party's nomination.
Commissioned by Bloomberg Politics and Saint Anselm College and conducted by the bipartisan Purple Insights group, the survey found Sanders with 18% backing among Granite State Democrats, up from 8% in February.
That's quite a jump for someone who the 'experts' say doesn't have a chance.
The poll shows that Hillary gained 6 points mainly due to the absence of Warren in this poll.
However Bernie's gains are really pretty impressive considering that back in Oct of last year when they first started to include him in polls, he was a virtual unknown to the public, polling only at 1%.
Against the odds: Still, there is understandable doubt that any candidate — especially one who has said he will not help raise money for any super PAC supporting his candidacy — can compete with the rich and, to date, smartly operated Clinton apparatus. On Sunday, Sanders got the question point-blank from CBS Face the Nation host Bob Schieffer, who asked, "Do you really believe you can beat Hillary Clinton?"
"The answer," Sanders said, "is yes."
How?
"There is, in my view, massive dissatisfaction in this country today with corporate establishment and the greed of corporate America and the incredibly unequal distribution of wealth and income, which currently exists," he told Schieffer, promising to impose a "litmus test" on campaign finance reform for potential Supreme Court nominees.
"The answer," Sanders said, "is yes."
How?
"There is, in my view, massive dissatisfaction in this country today with corporate establishment and the greed of corporate America and the incredibly unequal distribution of wealth and income, which currently exists," he told Schieffer, promising to impose a "litmus test" on campaign finance reform for potential Supreme Court nominees.
As Bernie's polls rise, Hillary's and other candidates are going down. No more '82%' polls these days.
And imo, starting out from so far behind, Bernie is like the longshot in a race, steadily catching up, already passing some of the contenders and eventually winning the race.
So all we have to do is to keep on doing what we are doing. Make sure that everyone in the country knows who Bernie is.
And don't forget, these polls are mostly from the Dem Base.
Bernie will be going after the Independent Vote AND the non-voters, people who have given up on politics.
So to see him now cutting into the Dem base so early is pretty encouraging in my view.
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say they are actually excited about voting since Bernie has announced. Over the years democrats and left leaning indies have just stayed home. Depressed about corporate dems they thought they could believe in. Lets face it, that's what gets people to the polls on election day. Voter turnout is abysmal. We are left leaning independents who will now register democrat so we can vote him in the primary.
Thank You Senator. You have my money and vote. Slow and steady wins the race.
Thank you sabrina.
