Posted on 08/05/2015 7:46:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Right as the world learned which 200 of the 19,000 Republican presidential candidates would get to participate in the first debate on Thursday night, a bit of news on the other side of the 2016 coin. A new poll from WMUR in New Hampshire showed that Bernie Sanders had closed to within six points of Hillary Clinton. That's essentially within the 5.9-point margin of error for Democratic respondents. A statistical tie! Trouble in Clintonland!
At the risk of sounding ridiculously contrarian, the opposite is true. This is actually relatively good news for Clinton, all things considering.
I can back that assertion up. Here's the track in recent polling from the Granite State Poll.
A few things worth noticing here. The first is that the tightness in the race between Clinton and Sanders didn't just emerge. In the last poll, conducted in June, Clinton led Sanders by 8. So she lost a point, he gained one. In a poll with a margin of error of 6.
But also notice that the June poll was the first to drop Sen. Elizabeth Warren out of the picture. If you compare Clinton's drop with the combination of support for Warren and Sanders, you can see that Clinton appears to have started losing ground even before Sanders surged.
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WaPo reasons: That in itself is not good news for Clinton, of course. But that the slide appears to have tapered off is.
THAT’s IT.
HUH ???
WAPO whistling past the graveyard.
This reminds me of the “Trump is peaking” reports from a few weeks ago, even though he continues to inch up.
Honestly, this is just pathetic. It reminds me of all those polls for McCain and Romney that the Republican Establishment bent over and kissed their butts, explaining their way around the bad numbers. Pipe dreams.
Sure it’s good news for her. If the trend continues, she will stabilize around 34% in February when New Hampshire votes. What isn’t good news about that for her?
Idiots.
So, then, if Sanders pulls ahead of her, I guess that will be terrific news for Hillary. If she continues to get such good news, her donors are going to start looking elsewhere.
Anything short of incarceration next February will ensure her nomination.
The fix is in.
And global cooling is actually global warming.
Makes no sense.
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