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Purveyor

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Thu Oct 22, 2015, 12:54 PM Oct 2015

Clinton-Sanders Fight Gathers Strength in Iowa: Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Poll

With Vice President Joe Biden officially out of the presidential race, the nation's first nominating contest between front-runner Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders is gaining steam, according to a new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll.

Clinton leads the field with 48 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers when Biden's supporters are re-allocated to their second-choice candidates; Sanders is in second place at 41 percent. Clinton led Sanders by a similar margin of 43 percent to 35 percent in the Iowa Poll conducted in August.

With Biden in the mix, he received the support of 12 percent of likely Democratic caucus-goers in the October poll, cutting Clinton's advantage to 5 points from 7 points. Without him, his supporters split almost evenly between the leading alternatives: Clinton's support went up 6 points, Sanders's 4 points.

Biden's announcement on Wednesday that he won't run for president is “good news for every candidate in that you have 12 percent of the vote that was aligning first with Vice President Biden and is now free to go someplace else,” said J. Ann Selzer, the president of the Iowa-based Selzer & Co., which conducted the poll.



n a Bloomberg Politics/Saint Anselm New Hampshire poll released Tuesday, Sanders led a horse race that included Biden with 41 percent, followed by Clinton with 36 percent and the vice president with 10 percent. Without Biden in the mix, Sanders's support went up 6 points to 47 percent and Clinton's support went up 3 points to 39 percent.

Biden's decision “means I’m probably going to favor Hillary Clinton,” said Richard Willett, a 64-year-old retired dining services direction and political independent from Laconia, New Hampshire. “I think he hurt himself —he should have probably got in a little earlier to get on to that debate.”



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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-10-22/bloomberg-politics-des-moines-register-iowa-poll-democratic-race

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Clinton-Sanders Fight Gathers Strength in Iowa: Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Poll (Original Post) Purveyor Oct 2015 OP
Bad news for Hillary! sabrina 1 Oct 2015 #1
The Main Stream Media continue to say little or nothing about Bernie Sanders. Many Cal33 Oct 2015 #2
 

Cal33

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2. The Main Stream Media continue to say little or nothing about Bernie Sanders. Many
Thu Oct 22, 2015, 01:05 PM
Oct 2015

people still have never even heard of him. Liberals have got to do something -- each in his own way, as
well as in groups -- to make this situation more fair for Bernie.

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