Sanders Is Winning The Battle Of Ideas
To use a phrase that President Kennedy often employed, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.) is winning the battle of ideas in the presidential campaign by a landslide.
The RealClearPolitics average of polls shows Sanders defeating Republican front-runner Donald Trump by more than 17 percentage points, defeating Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) by 10 points and defeating Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R-Ohio) by 2 points, a smaller margin but still advantage Sanders. Sanders runs stronger than Hillary Clinton (D) in match-up polling against all three Republican contenders.
In the Democratic race, Clinton has been moving to adapt the Sanders tone of progressive populism, which is good for Clinton, good for Democrats and a major victory for Sanders.
There is essentially a kind of sub-primary between Sanders and Trump in the battle of ideas in opposing the establishment and promoting real and powerful change. If the Sanders-Trump contest for the anti-establishment mantle was a boxing contest, the fight would have already ended by a knockout for Sanders — the lead that Sanders has over Trump, in poll after poll, is so huge that if the general election follows the polling, Democrats would win a majority of the House and Senate.
Let's consider why Sanders runs stronger than Clinton in match-up polls against Republicans, and why Sanders obliterates Trump such gigantic margins in polling.
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