Bernie Sanders Is Surging In A Fresh Batch Of New Polls

[Purveyor]

US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) continues to rise in the polls.

A new CNN/ORC poll released Monday showed Sanders with the biggest leap among any candidate in the 2016 field. And a new poll in the first-in-the-nation primary state of New Hampshire found him slightly expanding his lead there over former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

In Monday's CNN poll, Sanders garnered 29% support nationally, up 5% from a similar CNN poll released a month ago.

That still put him far behind Clinton, who grabbed 45% of national Democratic primary voters. Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner, has seen support rebound among Democratic voters since bottoming out at 37% in a similar CNN poll released in early September. She moved up to 42% in mid-September, meaning she rose three points in Monday's poll.

And in New Hampshire, a new Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll found Sanders with an eight-point lead over Clinton in the state. That was up a point from the last FPU/Boston Herald poll, and his lead increases to 10 points without Vice President Joe Biden in the survey.

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http://www.businessinsider.com/polls-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-new-hampshire-2015-10

[riversedge]

1. So, Bernie is only ahead in one poll out of two. Surging is not the word

I would use (i realize it is the from the article)

[Half-Century Man]

2. Advancing? Marching?

Which verb seems appropriate to describe his change of status?
I think the word "surge" has been overused. Perhaps a thesaurus is in order for the punditry.

Being a Bernie supporter, I kind of like "steadily advancing", but "for now" could be added to keep the peace.

[floriduck]

14. Or Deficit Reducing!

That would even get the Rethug voter's attention.

[Half-Century Man]

24. I was referring to his growing popularity in the public.

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The one where he went from a virtual unknown to be a serious challenger to the carefully crafted candidate who has been in center stage nationally for 20(+) years.

Not recognizing that is a bit like saying global warming isn't real because it was cold today.

I do not think badly of Ms. Clinton. I simply do not think she will be much of an agent of change as I think we need. Moving the culture left is not as important as moving the government left to better match up with the majority of the population.

[Half-Century Man]

28. As they did in 2008

Polls are somewhat meaningless at this point in the game. There is too long a timespan between now and the actual primary dispite all the DU hoopla.
Right now lets all celebrate what we can. Hooray foe my guy, hooray for yours.

[72DejaVu]

29. Presumably the polls in your OP are meaningless as well

Which makes one wonder why you felt compelled to share them.

[Half-Century Man]

30. I posted poll results?

I just made fun of the overused word "surge".

And pointed out polls are not the total sum of the campaign.

[72DejaVu]

31. My apology

I confused you for the OP.


"surge" seems like a word that would be used a lot in bad erotica, like "turgid" or "thrust".

[sabrina 1]

4. Why is Hillary, who has everything possible going for her, all that Dark Money

pouring into her Super Pacs,

The Corp media hiding info that would favor Bernie.

All those big donations coming from her Wall St friends.

The DNC doing everything they can to keep ANYONE from challenging her.

Smear machines funded by Dark Money going after Bernie every day.

Huge name recognition which few candidates ever have.

Bernie has none of those things, all he has are the PEOPLE.

WHY has she lost so much support despite all that do you think?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

5. The question answers itself. Go Bernie!

Bernie & Elizabeth 2016!!!

[Ed Suspicious]

8. I heard today that her campaign is outspending Bernie 4:1. I don't think she's getting her money's

worth.

[Scootaloo]

16. That's the problem with advertising

When you're topping the market, all advertising does is burn money and keep your head above water.

[AgingAmerican]

12. AND she is outspending him 4:1

She is running a shell game.

[Scootaloo]

17. I love your GIF

[Logical]

10. LOL, of course you wouldn't. nt

[Kalidurga]

3. Bernie is like the Hitchcock of politics...

And this is a slow Berner campaign.

[Fred Sanders]

6. In this Poll, scientific one, Clinton up 3 and Sanders up 5...is marginally positive for both.

Relative change between two at +2 for Samders is within the margin of error of the Poll and indicates no verifiable relative movement.

[kenn3d]

7. Fun with numbers

"Relative change between two at +2 for Samders is within the margin of error of the Poll and indicates no verifiable relative movement."

Clinton's 3pt rise from 42 to 45 is a 7% improvement
Sanders' 5pt rise from 24 to 29 is a 21% improvement.

So Sanders' gained 3 times more than Clinton did with this poll.

[Thor_MN]

11. Ridiculous claim... By that measure Webb had an infinity improvement.

Totally crushing both Sanders and Clinton.

He went form * to 1%.

[Fred Sanders]

13. Or, Sanders gained an astonishing 200% on Clinton, plus or minus 450%! Impressive!

[AgingAmerican]

21. Blibbity Bloobitty Blobbitty bloo

nt

[Jack Rabbit]

9. I guess they were people who watched the debate and then exhibited their own judgment

. . . instead of letting the media tell them who "won."

[DrBulldog]

15. A HUGE new reason to nominate Bernie - and, in itself, it has nothing to do with the issues.

If Bernie is nominated, a large fraction of the 75,000,000 millennials will show up to overwhelmingly vote for him in an electoral landslide and carry the Democrat down-tickets everywhere, providing a good chance of recovering one or more houses of Congress for the Democrats so that some major fixes can be made.

If Hillary is nominated, we will again see the millennials AGAIN massively boycott the general election, and Congress will end up worse than ever, while Hillary - if she had survived a close election - sits on her entitled butt for four years as the world's most famous figurehead.

[Trajan]

26. Exactly ...

We have not had this kind of down ticket opportunity in quite a few decades ....

That would not be the case were the nominee Mrs. Same Ole Same Ole ...

[redstateblues]

27. For sure, All those down ballot Socialists will be swept

into office on Bernie's coattails. There are a lot of down ballot socialists aren't there?

[brooklynite]

18. Quoting your OP: "That still put him far behind Clinton"

[Diskotec]

19. A 1% margin increase is barely a "surge ” in NH. And you omitted Monmouth

Your "fresh batch" omitted a poll in which Hillary s lead increased by 5%.

[brooklynite]

20. For completeness, perhaps we should mention the Monmouth University poll?

Hillary Clinton currently has the support of 48% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters
nationwide, which is up from 42% last month. Bernie Sanders gets 21%, which is basically unchanged
from his 20% support in September. Undeclared candidate Joe Biden has 17% support, down from 22%
last month. Jim Webb and Larry Lessig each get 1%, while Martin O’Malley and Lincoln Chafee each
earn less than 1%.

http://www.monmouth.edu/assets/0/32212254770/32212254991/32212254992/32212254994/32212254995/30064771087/4f03d197-5cae-42a6-b47a-0c1a4aeb7b6f.pdf