Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had a commanding lead over rival Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) in a Monmouth University poll of likely Iowa Democratic caucusgoers released Tuesday.
She led the Hawkeye State by 41 points — 65 points to Sander’s 24.
Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley polled at 5 percent while Harvard professor Lawrence Lessig polled at 1 percent.
Sanders and Clinton were also the clear second choices, 59 percent and 68 percent respectively. O’Malley reached 19 percent as a pick for second choice.
“We now have a two-person race, but one of those competitors has just pulled very far ahead,” Patrick Murray, director of the university’s polling institute, said in a news release.
The next Democratic debate is scheduled for Nov. 14 in Des Moines, Iowa and set to air on CBS at 9 p.m. EST.
The poll was conducted among 400 voters likely to attend Democratic caucus in Iowa from Oct. 22 to 25 by live land line and cell phone interviews. The margin of error was plus or minus 4.9 percent.
I can hear the Bernie supporters shrieking “OUTLIER POLL” right through my computer monitor.
Pretty much the definition of outlier.
The link is to Monmouth polling of the GOP in Iowa , TPM.
Only if you don’t consider that time frames of the previous polls being used on RCP. Hillary is showing movement in every poll coming out right now. And while the size of this might be on the high side, I have very little doubt that the direction is absolutely correct. And Monmouth is a pretty decent polling group, they aren’t some fly by night new operation.
Arguing that this is an outlier because the polls from two week ago don’t show the same numbers is ignoring what has happened in the past two weeks…all of which has been extremely positive for Hillary. Including having Biden drop out right before her 11 hour marathon. That not only freed up a significant amount of voters, but it did so at precisely the time when she is looking very positive. Think of it as a double bounce.
Just stop it with the near daily friggin’ Iowa polls already! Jesus H. Christ on beaver, Iowa is a nothing state in presidential politics, save for the fact they they are one of the first! Rick Santorum won in 2012 for Goddess sake! Rick “shit stain” SANTORUM!