Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton leads Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) by 11 percentage points, according to an NBC/SurveyMonkey poll released Friday.
The poll showed support for Clinton at 52 percent, while Sanders stood at 41 percent. This represents virtually no change since the previous NBC/SurveyMonkey poll taken in mid-February showed Clinton leading at 51 percent to Sanders’ 40 percent.
This survey comes as a number of national polls suggest Sanders has narrowed the gap that separated him from Clinton in the fall and winter. Some polls have even shown him slightly ahead of Clinton.
In any case, national polling only indirectly reflects the dynamic of the primary, and Clinton appears set to win double-digit victories in several of the states that go to the polls in the coming weeks beginning with Saturday’s South Carolina primary.
TPM’s PollTracker Average shows Clinton at 47.7 percent and Sanders at 43 percent.
The NBC/SurveyMonkey poll was carried out from Feb. 24-25. Pollsters surveyed 6433 registered voters online, with a margin of error of 1.9 percent.
You’re clearly very devoted. And you kept it all about Bernie which Makes you a credit to Sanders supporters–gotta respect that. But let me offer gentle and probably familiar pushback for which anyone can blast me til the Ioway cows come home.
I know, and you know, that Sen Sanders is not some hammer and sickle clutching terror attempting to usher in some workers paradise out of a little red book. But isn’t it possible that, under the weight of half a billion $ of the Repub/Koch attack machine’s ads, a large portion of the public including many independents could be convinced of just that? I know that Social Sec and Medicare are socialistic in nature. But if the Dems nominate Bernie, how much of the enthusiam–And its equivalent in $$ and time—will we have to spend explaining and re-explaining that? “Socialist” is not “communist” to me, and many voters can extricate the former label from authoritarian dictatorships associated with the latter. But how many can’t? How many times will nominee Sanders have to say the words “I’m not a communist” on television? Even once would be very, very bad. Will he, in the next sentence, say how we should be more like Denmark like he did in, I believe, the first debate? I’ve only been watching US politics for 20 odd years but It seems to me a campaign that constantly has to explain to the media what it ISN’T is going to look defensive, weak, and way, way too easy for pukes like Morning schmoe and other mainstream media figures to Dismiss, distract and defeat.
& yes of course I will vote for him if he is nominated! Keep IA blue!
I take it that cut and paste is your own words from your Facebook page?