Feel the Bern: "Catching Clinton, Sanders Surges"

Catching Clinton, Sanders Surges
Several polls now show Sen. Bernie Sanders closing the gap between himself and frontrunner Hillary Clinton
Wednesday, June 17, 2015 * Common Dreams * by Jon Queally

Several new polls from the early battleground state of New Hampshire indicate that the progressive message of Sen. Bernie Sanders—who has been busy talking about the troubling supremacy of Wall Street banks, vast economic inequality, the crisis of money in politics, and the imperative to address the climate crisis—is resonating with prospective voters in the early battleground state as he rapidly closes the gap with Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.



According to a Suffolk University poll released Tuesday, Sanders garnered the support of 31 percent of likely Democratic primary voters compared to Clinton who received 41 percent. With just ten points now separating the candidates, Sanders' increase in popularity is happening much faster than many political observers say they expected.

In late May, a University of New Hampshire poll showed that only 13 percent of likely New Hampshire voters would vote for Sanders.

Though any experts felt that Clinton’s early and substantial lead would ultimately shrink, David Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center in Boston, says the speed at which Sanders has closed the gap was not widely expected. "In New Hampshire right now," he said, "the lead has shrunk a lot, and this is a much different Democratic primary race than we are seeing in other states so far."

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