Poll puts Sanders on presidential race radar

[thesquanderer]

267. I think that link supports my post more than yours!

I was looking at 2006 polls up until October 7 (the date of my post).

I don't see that "whole host of polls from this time eight years ago, [that] had Obama far out-pacing Bernie" - the ones with Obama start after October 7, i.e. less than 8 years ago. Things did start to shift quickly after October 7. And that's the point... things can shift quickly from now as well. As of October 7 2006, the Marist people did not think Obama had enough support or name recognition to even include him on their list of possible candidates for the poll! Nor had he appeared on anyone else's poll that year prior to that, so it wasn't just Marist.

(Surprisingly, though, Obama did show up in one 2005 poll, and did respectably well. But based on all the polling at the time--i.e. all the companies' polls up until Oct 7 2006--it seems that virtually no one was considering him known and/or viable enough to even bother polling for him.)