Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has widened her lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to 7 percentage points, according to an Ipsos/Reuters national poll released Thursday.
The poll showed support for Clinton at 47 percent, while Sanders stood at 40 percent. This is a substantial gain for Clinton since the Ipsos/Reuters poll conducted in mid-February, which showed her trailing Sanders 42 percent to 44 percent. This result comes in the wake of a series of major victories for Clinton in state primaries.
TPM’s PollTracker Average shows Clinton at 50.9 percent and Sanders at 36.4 percent.
The Ipsos/Reuters poll was carried out from Feb. 27-March 2. The poll surveyed 839 registered voters online with a margin of error of 4.3 percentage points.
Correction: The original version of this post incorrectly described the respondents as “likely voters” instead of as “registered voters.” It also reported the results from a subset of those surveyed, rather than from the full sample. Those numbers have now been corrected. We regret the errors.
A see-saw battle. Just what we needed. Feel the Bern, bitches!
National polls only matter when your candidate is leading them.
I have enormous respect for Senator Sanders and I think his message reflects the truth of what is happening in our country. That said, despite some clinks in the Clinton armor, she is a skilled executive with the know how and experience to fight the treacherous GOP. Bernie has high approvals today, but the GOP has not even begun to smear him as a socialist, communist, marxist, etc. of which is mostly not true but they will easily sell and scare the low information voters across this country. Let’s not kid oursevles, most voters are low information. I also think Clinton has the foriegn policy expertise needed among world leaders she already knows. There may things we can all criticize her for, but she is the best qualified candidate in both parties by far. I hope should she get the Party nomination that Sanders realizing any Democrat is far superior to any Repuclican and will forcefully support her and get his supporters to see that supporting her is the best course for the nation. I do think that part of lower turnout right now during the primaries is in part to the fact that a lot of people would be comfortable voting for either one of these candidates and is not that concerned with which one.
People seem to like a winner. That’s Trump’s trump card for the GOP. As long as HIS face is everywhere–like some third rate commie dictator’s–he LOOKS like a winner.
Clinton supporters are so gracious. I’m sure they will win over many to her cause.