Both Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Hillary Clinton would beat Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump in a general election, according to a CNN/ORC poll of national voters released Tuesday morning.
Sanders led Trump with an 12-point lead, 55 to 43 percent. In the January iteration of the poll, Sanders only led by three points.
Sanders also beat Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) by eight points and beat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) by 17 points in head-to-head match-ups.
Clinton beat Trump with an 8-point lead, 52 to 44 percent. This is a sharp increase from the 1- to 2-point leads she had over the real estate mogul in the December and January versions of the poll.
Clinton lost to Rubio by three points and lost to Cruz by one point in head-to-head match-ups.
Both Democratic candidates would also beat Trump if former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg ran as an independent.
The poll was conducted from Feb. 24-27 via landline and cell phone among 920 registered voters with a margin of error plus or minus 3 points.
Heads up pollsters, if you cannot poll, only, likely voters; what’s the point?
No no Ya got the headline all wrong. This same info at Salon would read “The disastrous Clinton still doesn’t get it: inside the new numbers that spell doom for her ill conceived campaign”. Then they’d only mention the Rubio number. Clickity clickity!
Oh wait that’s why I’m here & not there.
The early primary polls showed Trump couldn’t get more than 10% of Republican primary voters. Those polls showed Trump losing to Bush!, Rubio, Christie! and Cruz. The battle is just beginning. And we won’t know the likely results until some time in October. Trump has shown that he is as smart as he is selfish–and he’s extremely selfish.
This election is too important to risk nominating a less popular candidate for November! Think about the Supreme Court for the next generation! The Ds have to go with someone safely electable!
I know us old folks are all excited by HRC, but let’s be PRACTICAL here! WE CAN’T TAKE THAT GREAT A CHANCE!
Whaaaaat? Clinton could actually also beat Trump??? But I thought only #Bernie could do that!!!
… sorry for the snark. (not sorry!)
Two quick comments:
Am I the only one who’s noticed a very sharp decrease in the #feelthebern’ers in most boards? They seem to have gone back to wherever they came from. Now it’s mostly just the #indicthillary folk who are bashing Hillary non-stop. Which, imo, consisted of a sizable portion of the #feelthebern’ers.
I’m soooo glad today may finally put that nail in the coffin of Bernie’s “revolution”. I was actually ok with it at the start, but good freaking lord it wore thin fast! #feelthebern! #revolution! #Im16thisyear! … It was like dealing with a constant flood of anti-math/facts/science teenage GOPers who just don’t-let-anything-through-that-bubble.
I can deal with folks who argue facts, evidence, numbers. But when you have folks who, for example, constantly day-after-day continue bashing (and bashing, and bashing) Paul Krugman not for his numbers or facts or evidence, but for his not understanding the incredible, ultra-amazing “aspirational” value aspect of Bernie Sander’s plans when Paul evaluates Bernie’s plans and says “based on the numbers, Bernie’s plan is smoking crack cocaine”, I’m sorry, but that’s the line I don’t cross… It’s the same as Trump saying his “brand” is worth $Billions$ because of the “inspirational, luxury” associated to it. Those folks can all blow me.