Only three percentage points would separate Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in Mississippi if both won their respective parties’ nomination, according to a Mason-Dixon poll released Tuesday.
The poll showed that support for Trump would stand at 46 percent to Clinton’s 43 percent in a general-election contest between the two, suggesting that a Trump nomination augurs a competitive race in the deep-red state.
By contrast, if the Republican nomination goes to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), the poll shows him leading Clinton by 11 percentage points at 51 percent to 40 percent. Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) performs even better among Mississippi voters, who prefer him to Clinton by 15 percentage points, 52 percent to 37 percent.
The Mason-Dixon survey was carried out form March 28-30 using live telephone interviews. Pollsters surveyed 625 registered voters, with a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
So what’s the point, if Bernie is the candidate and not Hillary? I guess this writer is bored so scribbled down some trivial numbers due to leaving out Bernie’s odds. Sounds like he is just another biased MSM writer to me.
And Mississippi has gone blue in how many presidential elections since George Wallace? ZERO! How is this article relevant to anything?
“In play” means just that. Sanders has NO chance in Mississippi, but Clinton could possibly flip it. Not certainly, but possibly. I love how the Bernie Bros want to dismiss red state Democrats from consideration in selecting the nominee. Because reasons.
hillary won the mississippi democratic primary with 182000 votes to bernie’s 36000 votes. you think bernie would do better versus trump in mississippi than hrc?