Posted on 06/01/2016 8:33:02 AM PDT by usafa92
While the calls for Sen. Bernie Sanders to drop out of the Democratic race have increased in recent weeks, most voters — and even Democrats — think he should stay in the contest, according to a new Morning Consult poll.
A national survey of 2,001 registered voters taken last week (see toplines and crosstabs) shows 57 percent of respondents said the Vermont independent should stay in the race, compared with 28 percent who said he should drop out and 15 percent who didn’t know or had no opinion.
The breakdown is similar among partisan lines. Fifty-seven percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents also said they thought Sanders should remain in the race, compared with 55 percent of Republicans and 60 percent of independents.
And while most Democrats prefer for Sanders to continue his campaign, they also back the party’s front-runner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, over him in the primary. In a Morning Consult survey of 4,002 registered voters taken last week (see toplines and crosstabs), 46 percent of Democratic voters prefer Clinton to Sanders, who was the first choice of 42 percent of respondents.
Sanders’ insistence on remaining in the race has caused some consternation among establishment Democrats who are growing wary as the GOP nominee, Donald Trump, has begun to consolidate support and creep up in head-to-head polls with Clinton. In our new survey, Trump remains just outside the margin of error, trailing Clinton by 3 points (42 percent to 39 percent). The real estate mogul lost one point from our previous poll.
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I've noticed a little trend where aside from the Fox and ABC polls, Hillary is maintaining small (2-3 point) leads in most polls, albeit of RV's. Not sure if this is a trend or a bit of press manipulation. Still, Hillary's numbers are pathetic and Trump is in excellent shape overall I believe.
“Registered” voters, not likely.
I don’t want to get into mini-poll analysis, but this will be very important this time as Trump has shown he can really turn out his voters. Not sure Cankles can.
I think we’ve seen the press manipulate polls in past elections.
So I would bet that these polls are also manipulated.
Which would also mean that Trump is slightly ahead. If the likes of ABC and Huffington Post have a poll showing such a narrow Hillary lead, in reality, Trump is probably ahead by that approximate margin.
Well after the percentage that voted 0bama in I can believe there are people out there idiotic enough to even think about voting for Hillary.
[Well after the percentage that voted 0bama in I can believe there are people out there idiotic enough to even think about voting for Hillary.]
Yup! Their vaginas are just itching to pull that lever for Hillary! Or maybe its just a yeast infection....
I agree. This means Trump is leading. And we know Trump voters will crawl over broken glass to vote him in. All Hillary’s got is a bunch of dead voters in the cities. Donald Trump’s right: it’s gotta be a knockout—and it will be.
On the other hand, Trump is depending on a lot of votes from people who normally don’t vote, so getting out his vote could present unique difficulties. He needs to replace a block of republican voters who typically vote republican but won’t vote for Trump. It is really unclear how large that block will be but it must be replaced by atypical voters.
It is very possible that this election will see record numbers of ballots where the presidential line is left blank AND record numbers of ballots where only the presidential line will be filled.
It will be interesting.
Its a dead heat.
Average all the polls together, Hillary is nowhere ahead in any of them.
Yes, I agree with that.
And Trump hasn’t started on the felon yet. Numbers like this mean Trump is really up by about 4 points given the Bradley/Wilder factor. These also say she would have to campaign all across the country - something she doesn’t have the stamina to do.
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