Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to lead Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) by a very slim margin of just two points, according to a Quinnipiac national poll released Wednesday.
The poll showed support for Clinton at 44 percent while Sanders stood at 42 percent. This represents no change from the results of Quinnipiac’s previous national poll, carried out earlier in the month.
Most national polling, however, has tended to show a wider gulf between the two candidates even as Clinton’s lead has narrowed. TPM’s PollTracker Average shows Clinton in the lead at 46.2 percent compared to Sanders’ 41 percent.
The Quinnipiac poll was conducted by live phone interviews from Feb. 10-15. The sample population of likely Democratic voters was 563 with a margin of error of 4.1 percentage points.
So, no change. Apparently Quinnipiac’s filtering is different from other pollsters for whatever reason given that their last two show a “dead heat” but all of the other polls over the same periods show something like 10 points difference or so between them.
If one were perhaps a bit cynical, we could note which poll makes front page news when it drops for some reason.
Loved your choice of the image to go with this story, TPM. No slant there.
I’m surprised it didn’t come with a caption of, “Would you vote for THIS man?”
No.
The margin of error is twice as wide as the supposed difference.
That is not a “gulf”, it’s a “gap”.