Posted on 11/25/2015 9:52:51 AM PST by Impala64ssa
In a new McClatchy-Marist poll, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) leads Republican candidate Donald Trump by a landslide margin of 12 percentage points, 53 to 41. In the McClatchy poll, Sanders also leads former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) by a landslide margin of 10 points, 51 to 41.
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The huge Sanders advantage over Trump is not new. In the last four match-up polls between them reported by Real Clear Politics, Sanders defeated Trump by margins of 12, 9, 9 and 2 percentage points. The huge Sanders advantage over Bush is new. In previous match-ups, the polling showed Sanders and Bush running virtually even, with Bush holding a 1-point lead over Sanders in most of the polls. Future polls will be needed to test whether the huge Sanders lead over Bush in the McClatchy poll will be repeated in future polling or whether the McClatchy poll is an outlier.
It is shocking that the data suggests that Sanders has a lead over Trump that could be so huge that he would win a landslide victory in the presidential campaign, with margins that would almost certainly lead Democrats to regain control of the Senate and could help Democrats regain control of the House of Representative — if, of course, the three polls that show Sanders beating Trump by 9 to 12 points reflect final voting in the presidential election.
It would be equally shocking if future polling shows that the Sanders lead over Bush remains at landslide margins.
For today, there are two issues these polls present. First, the national reporting of the presidential campaign completely fails to reflect Sanders's strength in a general election, especially against Trump, and against Bush as well.
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I haven’t seen any GOP campaign gear in my town(half hour north of SF).
No dem stuff either aside from leftover obama items being clung to like liferafts and one or two for bernie.
He polled high because they thought he was the colonel who makes fried chicken.
It makes sense to me. Trump and Sanders pull from the same demagraphic and ideologic base.
I stopped reading at McClatchy-Marxist. A Marxist U. poll is what it is.
You know, I almost hope Bernie is elected. So that the crash, the war, and the bloodshed that are surely to come happen on his watch.
No one is going to vote for a Socialist ? Whut ? You mean like how the Democrat Guv-elect of LA is a “Conservative” ?
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