A new poll finds former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton with an 18 point lead in Iowa over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the race for the
2016 Democratic Presidential nomination:
Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has an 18-point lead over Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont in a new poll on the early presidential state of Iowa, essentially retaining the sizable advantage she had over Mr. Sanders in August in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.Mrs. Clinton had the support of 55 percent of likely Democratic Iowa caucus-goers, followed by Mr. Sanders at 37 percent and former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley at 3 percent in the CNN/ORC poll released Friday.
That’s comparable to the 19-point, 50 percent to 31 percent advantage Mrs. Clinton had over Mr. Sanders in a CNN/ORC poll taken in August.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden had been at 12 percent in the August poll. The latest survey was taken from Oct. 29 to Nov. 4 — after Mr. Biden announced he would not be running for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination.
Voters also said Mrs. Clinton would do the best job handling the economy, foreign policy, health care, climate change and gun policy. About three-quarters said she has the best chance of winning in the general election next November.
Of course, on state does not a nomination make. Sanders has chance to prevail in some other states, such as New Hampshire. But a new poll shows his support is currently eroding:
Hillary Clinton gets 48% support, compared with 45% for Bernie Sanders in N.H., according to Monmouth University Poll of likely primary voters.
–Sanders had 49%-41% advantage in Sept. poll
–Sanders retains advantage among registered independents and new voters, men, younger voters, Monmouth says
–Clinton made “significant” gains in past 2 months with registered Democrats, women, older voters: Monmouth
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.