New Poll: Washington State Poll - Clinton way ahead of Republicans [View all]

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Democrats ahead in state headed into 2016: Statewide poll
http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2015/05/21/democrats-ahead-in-state-headed-into-2016-statewide-poll/

Hillary Clinton is bedeviled in the “other” Washington by media critics and Republicans’ politically driven Benghazi investigation, but she leads all prospective Republican challengers by a 10-15 point margin in a poll of Washington state voters.

The survey by Public Policy Polling shows Democrats in pretty good shape going into 2016, in a state they’ve carried in seven straight presidential elections, in eight consecutive runs for governor and six straight contests for U.S. Senate.

PPP surveyed 879 registered voters from May 14 to 17. The poll’s margin of error is plus/minus 3.3 percent. Eighty percent of interviews were conducted over the pone with 20 percent interviewed via the Internet to reach those without land line phones.

–U.S. President: Among Democrats, Clinton is the overwhelming favorite with 57 percent. But Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vermont, registers a respectable 24 percent. Ex-Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley gets just 4 percent. It doesn’t speak to O’Malley’s judgment that his first exploratory visit was to a mansion in The Highlands.