Posted on 07/13/2015 11:42:28 AM PDT by Din Maker
Pundits have focused recently on Hillary Clinton’s narrowing lead in polls among a group of less well known Republicans, along with voters' growing skepticism about her integrity. But there's a more immediate threat to her electability: In the last few weeks, Clinton has lost significant ground in New Hampshire and Iowa to socialist Bernie Sanders.
The latest Suffolk University poll has Sanders within 10 percentage points of Clinton, at 41-31, among Democrats in New Hampshire. Clinton is only eight points ahead of Sanders, 43-35, in a WMUR/CNN poll. In Iowa she has slipped 26 points since May.
Considering this enthusiasm gap, and data from an Iowa focus group that showed Clinton’s supporters struggling to list her accomplishments, Hillary finds herself in a precarious position. At this point, national poll numbers mean far less than the numbers in primary and caucus states. That means that Clinton is in serious trouble.
Clinton finds herself with a real and credible threat in the primaries from Sanders, who spoke to 10,000 cheering supporters in Madison, Wisconsin last week—the biggest crowd that a candidate from either party has drawn.
Over the holiday weekend Sanders drew a crowd of 2,500 in Iowa while Clinton saw much smaller crowds in New Hampshire and was heckled by a voter carrying a poster that read “Benghazi” and taunts such as “carpetbagger” and “tell us when you were poor” at the former Secretary of State.
If Hillary loses the first two states next year—and she could—the landscape will change, just as it did for Lyndon Johnson in 1968, when he effectively "lost" the New Hampshire primary by winning just 49-42 over Senator Eugene McCarthy. That led to LBJ’s withdrawal from the race.
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The idea of “smelling” anything of this purported woman is repulsive. I almostr lost my lu8nch!
Yep. Old bill makes a mighty fine looking used car salesman. But man, that Hillary was an Edsel from the get go.
Another week, another “potentially mortal threat” to the Hildebeast’s candidacy.
LOL! OOPS!
Your Post #38: THAT’S GOOD NEWS!
if hillary loses “but he’s a Jew” voters, it’s all over
Sanders is a huge threat to Hillary, and to the GOP.
He is pulling in a large number of people, and Hillary can’t fill a small town community center.
Bernie Sanders is a Jew? Hmmmmm..... ok. American Jews are the most LIBERAL demographic in America. Most young American Jews don’t give one twit about the homeland.
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