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Sat Dec 5, 2015, 08:43 AM Dec 2015

Hillary Clinton Is Dominating, But Democrats Still Like Bernie Sanders

Hillary Clinton Is Dominating, But Democrats Still Like Bernie Sanders
Hillary Clinton may be dominating the polls recently, but Democrats haven’t stopped "feeling the Bern" just yet, according to recent polling from CNN/ORC and Quinnipiac University.

CNN/ORC’s poll, released today, shows Clinton ahead of Sanders by a margin of 28 points. That result is almost identical to what Quinnipiac released Wednesday -- Clinton was ahead of Sanders 2-1 in the horse race there.

But Sanders isn’t so far behind in other categories -– and when it comes to honesty and trustworthiness, more respondents to Quinnipiac’s poll thought Clinton was dishonest than thought Sanders was. The democratic socialist struggles with voters, though, when it comes to leadership ability, experience and electability –- all things that could hurt his chance at the nomination.

Here’s a breakdown of what Democrats think of both candidates:

Voters think Clinton is less honest and trustworthy

When it comes to whom voters think they can trust, Clinton tends to struggle, and Wednesday’s Quinnipiac poll was no different. Sanders fared better -- 23 percent of Democratic respondents said they don’t trust Clinton, while only 11 percent said the same of Sanders. And the number of people who believe Sanders is honest and trustworthy has the potential to grow –- 11 percent of Democrats responding to the poll said they hadn’t “heard enough” about Sanders to be able to make a decision. Only 1 percent said that about Clinton.

Sanders isn’t far behind in other categories, either

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The reason for the gap between Clinton and Sanders? Probably the fact that Sanders is less well-known. On each question, around 11 percent of Democratic voters said they didn’t know enough about him to be able to make a decision. If those voters decided they liked Sanders after learning more, Hillary and Bernie could be neck in neck when it comes to questions like this.


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Voters that know Bernie, prefer Bernie!
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merrily

(45,251 posts)
1. smh I have no idea why anyone would vote for a candidate deemed dishonest and untrustworthy.
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 08:47 AM
Dec 2015

Why would anyone even bother listening to such a candidate, let alone vote for him or her?

I just don't get it and never will.

 

JaneyVee

(19,877 posts)
4. If voters that know Bernie prefer Bernie, then...
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 09:06 AM
Dec 2015

How come after every debate Hillary's poll numbers go up?

Robbins

(5,066 posts)
5. You can see a lot of illogic here
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 09:10 AM
Dec 2015

Clinton cares about voters needs more than bernie

Clinton has right kind of exceperence yeah if you want a corporist and neocon

the electabilty arguement makes no sense anymore but for those listening to MSM it makes sense why they think that

DCBob

(24,689 posts)
10. I like Bernie, just dont think he is our best candidate.
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 09:18 AM
Dec 2015

I suspect that is the opinion of most Democrats.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
13. Let me fill you in on how it is around here
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 09:40 AM
Dec 2015

we have a lot of Ole Boys who are registered as a dem because that allows them to vote in our primary. They'll vote for the dem that they see will be the easiest to beat. Then when the general election time comes they almost always vote 'CON.

Many of those people will vote for Hillary in the primary because they know that she will bring out the voters, to vote against her in the general election. Their mission to be and always has been is to get the republiCON nominee into the whitehouse.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
19. Sorry
Sat Dec 5, 2015, 11:36 AM
Dec 2015

I wasn't alluding to DU so much as I was to northeast Oklahoma

Most here are good solid Democratic Party members, I do believe that.

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