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cal04

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Fri Nov 27, 2015, 04:10 AM Nov 2015

Poll: Bernie Sanders Besting Republican Rivals In Wisconsin

While former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential primary, Wisconsin polling so far has shown her rival Bernie Sanders winning head-to-head matchups against all Republican contenders.

Marquette University Law School's most recent poll found Clinton losing by a percentage point to Republicans Marco Rubio and Ben Carson, but it found Sanders would beat Rubio by 4 percentage points and Carson by 6 points.

Marquette Law School pollster Charles Franklin said that both Clinton and Sanders have strong support from Democrats, but in hypothetical general election matchups, Sanders has more support from independents and even a handful of Republicans.

"Now, whether that would continue as voters become more aware of both the Republican and Democratic candidates, that's too early to say," Franklin said. "But at least right now, the Sanders' advantage that we're seeing in the data has less to do with the way Democrats are voting and more to do with the way independents and a handful of Republicans are voting."


http://www.wpr.org/poll-bernie-sanders-besting-republican-rivals-wisconsin

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Poll: Bernie Sanders Besting Republican Rivals In Wisconsin (Original Post) cal04 Nov 2015 OP
The way the polls are going, the 'electability' argument is going to be completely owned by Bernie Erich Bloodaxe BSN Nov 2015 #1
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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1. The way the polls are going, the 'electability' argument is going to be completely owned by Bernie
Fri Nov 27, 2015, 09:19 AM
Nov 2015

before too much longer.

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