Not good, Bernie Sanders continues to gain strength against Hillary. Sanders needs to be stopped by any political means possible.
Bernie Sanders continues to cut into Hillary Clinton's lead among Iowa Democrats, closing to just 7 points of Clintonin the first-in-the-nation caucus state, a new poll has found.
A survey released late Saturday afternoon by the Des Moines Register and Bloomberg Politics finds that the Sanders trails Clinton 37% to 30%. Hillary has now lost one-third of her supporters since May.
This is particularly disturbing since Sanders is an admitted socialist: Sanders' support owes more to voters' enthusiasm for his candidacy than opposition to Clinton, the poll found. A whopping 96% of his backers say they support him and his ideas, with just 2% saying their vote is motivated by a desire to stop a Clinton candidacy. Thirty-nine percent of likely caucusgoers say their feelings about Sanders are very favorable, with just 8% having a negative view of him. That's a sharp contrast to Clinton: 27% view her very favorably, but 19% view her negatively.
I can see the headlines now: Is America Ready for Socialism-Lite?
We made need Joe Biden in this race for tactical reasons to dilute the Bernie enthusiasm among the easily swayed masses.
-RW
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