Poll: Majority of voters backing Sanders would be OK with Clinton

[riversedge]

Source: Politico





Poll: Majority of voters backing Sanders would be OK with Clinton

By Nick Gass

12/16/15 11:38 AM EST


Some Democratic voters might be all in for Bernie Sanders, but they would be OK with Hillary Clinton, too.

According to the results of the latest national Monmouth University poll out Wednesday, 59 percent of those backing Sanders for the nomination said they would be enthusiastic or satisfied with Clinton as their party's standard bearer next November. Overall, 80 percent of Democratic voters would be fine with Clinton as their nominee, while 11 percent said they would be dissatisfied and 5 percent said they would be upset.

Clinton maintained her strong double-digit lead over Sanders nationally, earning 59 percent to his 26 percent. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley ticked up three points, to 4 percent, while 8 percent remained undecided. In the university's last national poll, Clinton ......

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/poll-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-216856#ixzz3uWwhRdCi


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Overall, 80 percent of Democratic voters would be fine with Hillary Clinton as their nominee. | AP Photo

[upaloopa]

1. I think only 40% to 60% bother to vote.

I think a sufficient number of votes will be cast for Hillary to win the EC and popular vote.

[jtuck004]

2. So, Hillary Clinton. Better than Nothing? Yeesh. Someone actually thought such a survey was a

good idea. Surely not a paid consultant.

[jhart3333]

21. My thoughts exactly

Why even ask the question other than to stir something up?

[1StrongBlackMan]

34. Or, does that show that ...

A majority of those polled, live in the real world, where when you don't get your first choice, you choose the besy available option?

[global1]

3. What About The Reverse?.....

Would a majority of voters backing Clinton be OK with Sanders?

Did they poll that scenario too? If not, why not?

[CTyankee]

11. betcha they would but honestly, now, that is not the case.

I am one of those supporting Bernie in the primary and will vote for HRC in the general.

[40RatRod]

23. Yes I would back and vote for Bernie, but...

...I think she would have a better chance of defeating a GOP candidate.

[peacebird]

39. Current polling against Rs shows Bernie has better odds than Hillary of winning...

[40RatRod]

72. Then I will vote for...

... him. However, I don't let other people's opinion's or polls determine who I prefer and believe can accomplish the most as our next POTUS.

[NorthCarolina]

41. My gut tells me

no freak'n way they would support a "Socialist"!!

Recall Hillary campaign barker Claire McCaskill...."but, but, but...he's a Socialist for gods sake", when asked about her thoughts on challenger Bernie Sanders.

Wall St. types DESPISE Bernie's populist political stripe, feeling that he just wants to give their hard earned money away to what they consider undesirables, and the lazy. We all know the type, and no...they would not break for Sanders if Clinton implodes (which appears more and more likely with each passing day).

[Nitram]

67. I would be ok with either of them. nt

[maxsolomon]

69. I'm good either way

My priority is a NOT-REPUBLICAN.

Frankly, either Sanders or Clinton will mean that the rolling disaster that is contemporary America will just limp forward for the next 4 years. Neither of them can swing the House due to Gerrymandering.

[NuclearDem]

70. Sorry, this isn't a case of "both sides do it."

Just about every Clinton supporter here has explicitly said they would be more than happy to vote for Sanders if he were the nominee.

By contrast, there's a disturbingly high number of Sanders supporters here who are proud PUMAs who have stated to one degree or another that they won't vote for Clinton if she were the nominee, and apparently have consciences that would rest easier with the first viable American fascist being elected president than with voting for someone that's not as left leaning as they'd like.

[riversedge]

4. Dec 16: Monmouth University poll: Clinton 59, Sanders 26

Dec 16: Monmouth University poll: Clinton 59, Sanders 26

Overall, 80 percent of Democratic voters would be fine with Hillary Clinton as their nominee. | AP Photo


Poll: Majority of voters backing Sanders would be OK with Clinton

By Nick Gass

12/16/15 11:38 AM EST


Some Democratic voters might be all in for Bernie Sanders, but they would be OK with Hillary Clinton, too.

According to the results of the latest national Monmouth University poll out Wednesday, 59 percent of those backing Sanders for the nomination said they would be enthusiastic or satisfied with Clinton as their party's standard bearer next November. Overall, 80 percent of Democratic voters would be fine with Clinton as their nominee, while 11 percent said they would be dissatisfied and 5 percent said they would be upset.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/poll-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-216856#ixzz3uX0W1EhO



.......Clinton maintained her strong double-digit lead over Sanders nationally, earning 59 percent to his 26 percent. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley ticked up three points, to 4 percent, while 8 percent remained undecided. In the university's last national poll, Clinton held a similar advantage of 57 percent to 24 percent. Favorability ratings are largely unchanged from the last two months, as well.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/poll-bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-216856#ixzz3uWzrwE9B

[wolfie001]

5. Agreed!!!

[PatrynXX]

6. Not surprised since it's a right leaning website.

Not even pretending anymore she's not conservative. smh

[riversedge]

7. You are silly. Just becuse a poll is published on a TW leaning werbsite does not mean

that the poll is invalid. whow. just whow!

[George II]

10. The interesting thing about Politico is how the direction they "lean" depends upon who....

....is talking. Salon thinks they're right leaning, Breitbart thinks they're left leaning. I guess that means they're neutral?

But the bottom line is that the poll is the poll, regardless of who writes about it.

[HassleCat]

8. Depends on what you mean by OK

I will probably motivate myself to vote for her, even though I'm not at all excited about her presidency. I certainly will not vote for her Republican opponent, nor will I vote for a third party spoiler candidate. I am tempted to punish the party by refusing to vote for her, but I will refrain from doing that. Our party is so clueless it still has not figured out how the third way strategy made us the minority party at every level of government. No matter how many registered Democrats stay home, vote for a third party candidate, etc. our party leadership will congratulate itself on winning the presidency. What if we lose? Just proves Clinton should not have admitted to favoring "progressive" ideas.

[Bohunk68]

63. That is pretty much where I am at also.

[McKim]

9. I Can't Vote for Her!

I just can't vote for her. About 500,000 people are dead in the Middle East and she voted for it. If she gets in office it will be war and more war. After 14 years in the Peace Movement, I cannot vote for her.

[YOHABLO]

13. Oh yeah, you can count on more war, more innocent lives taken, more body bags coming home.

It never stops. What fools we have as alleged leaders.

[andrewv1]

18. I can't either....She's got the start of WW III written all over her.

It's starting to get a lot more scary then who will be the next President to replace some of Supreme Court.
And watching the Republicans last night talk about continuing and starting more Wars, the only person who seemed to be missing from the stage was Clinton.
Unfortunately, there's not lot of difference in Military options between Hillary's rhetoric & from what was heard by most of them in that debate.
Hopefully, her & Bill won't be talking in the Salt Mine Bunker at a later date about how things went wrong after she was elected with help from the Defense Industry.

[upaloopa]

37. Good for us you are wrong about all of that.

Why don't you source all that bull shit for us?

Post some reputable independent objective journalism that can back up what you posted.

[andrewv1]

43. You are making a fool of yourself....

You just need to look at her voting record or statements...That's not tough.

Or do you want to start on her backing of ISIS in Syria?

Or how she persuaded Obama to arm the Rebels in Libya that eventually became ISIS?

Or maybe her past comments on bombing Iran?

Please do some research before you speak...

[upaloopa]

44. No I am not. I am challenging you to back up what you said with independent sources.

When people post bull shit it isn't somebody else's job to prove it is bull shit. It is your job to prove it isn't.

There is a pattern here. We post a poll showing Hillary is leading in the polls by a large margin, and the Bernie side goes quiet for a couple of hours. Then we get a slew of bull shit anti Hillary posts all night into the next day.


So prove yours isn't bull shit with objective journalist's sources.

[andrewv1]

50. I am going to back off now....

Hillary is a Neocon War Hawk, and is more likely to start World War III with tensions as they are throughout the world right now.

She is a person who can "change on a dime."
She was for the Trans Pacific Partnership before she was against it.
She was for bombing Iran before Obama made a deal with them.

I've had been through the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and I will tell you that we are closer now than we were before that incident;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/russia/11338393/Crisis-in-Ukraine-could-trigger-nuclear-war-warns-Gorbachev.html

And this is not about Polls, this is about whether the earth will survive and I'm very worried about Hillary being elected as much as most of the other Republicans running.

Also, I've been a proud Democrat since voting for McGovern back in 1972 & I have voted for everyone of them including Bill Clinton two times.
I was looking forward to voting for Warren & then fortunately Bernie took up the cause.
For the first time though, I might not go to the polls in November.

Be careful....



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[CoffeeCat]

56. You laid out your case beautifully...

...and I share your concern about Hillary going full neocon.

As I'm sure you know, the grandfather of the neocon movement, Robert Kagan, has praised Hillary's foreign-policy stances. Furthermore (which I find ghastly), Kagan was one of her advisors while she was Secretary of State.

You, my husband and I could sit and have drinks and discuss all of this until the cows come home. I get it. So many do.

This cancer didn't used to be in our party. The neocons were only on the Republican side.

For some reason Hillary has them on her side, as advisors.

It's scary as hell.

[CoffeeCat]

55. Wow, you really need a break from DU...

You sound like you're having some kind of meltdown.

To waste your time analyzing posts and seeing phantom patterns perpetrated by some kind of marauding Sanders collective...Wow.

We all need a break from politics every once in a while.

I can assure you. No one is gathering at the online Bernie bar to discuss our collective DU strategy for the day!

Is there any way you can get yourself near a cheesecake? And I'm talking...like...a whole cheesecake.

[YOHABLO]

12. And if the polls were in Sanders favor? Would Hillary supporters vote for Sanders?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

14. I would, gladly!

I don't want ANY of the current Republican field winning the WH in 2016 (or any year)!

[Codeine]

16. Happily. I'm positive about both candidates. nt

[Squinch]

27. That has never really been in question. Yes, they would.

[Lil Missy]

29. Most people wear their big boy/girl pants and would do the right thing regardless of what others do.

[bvf]

38. At least one Clinton supporter hereabouts

has flatly stated that Clinton could win the GE even if no Sanders supporters were to vote for her.

I didn't know what to make of that statement at the time it was made, and I still don't. How arithmetically challenged does one have to be to maintain such a thing?

[NanceGreggs]

51. That's probably because ...

... many of the posters here who claim they won't vote for HRC if she's the nominee never intended to vote for a Democrat anyway.

[bvf]

53. What are you, Kreskin?

Name one.

[NanceGreggs]

54. Not Kreskin.

Just someone who has been on this board for a decade, and is aware of what gets posted here - when, and by who.

[bvf]

57. That's probably debatable.

Again: Name one.

[NanceGreggs]

58. What's debatable?

That I've been posting here for ten years? Or that I am aware of what gets posted here, when, and by who?

You want me to name one. Being a bit obvious, aren't you?

[bvf]

59. Every bit of it.

You've made a claim you can't back up, knowing full well you'd have a cheap out.

Everything you say is therefore suspect.

[NanceGreggs]

60. What claim did I make? n/t

[bvf]

61. Now who's being obvious?

Have the last word. Invent crap till your head spins.

[NanceGreggs]

62. Yeah, okay.

Whatever.

[Laser102]

40. You betcha! If Bernie is the nominee there is no question the majority of Dems. would vote for him.

[riversedge]

46. of course. I am a Democrat.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

15. IOW

A majority of Sanders supporters aren't politically suicidal/self-destructive

[DFW]

17. i.e. the poll says most Sanders supporters are sane

I think we could pretty much have counted on that without having a poll tell us.

[NYCButterfinger]

19. You don't vote because your preferred candidate isn't on the ballot

Don't complain when President Kasich, President Trump, President Romney wins the White House. Period.

[rpannier]

28. One of the more interesting things about the 'I won't for for...'

The majority of people I have heard that from apply it to Presidential campaigns
They don't do it for Senate races, House races, Governor's races, etc
I wonder why that is

[lunamagica]

20. K&R.

[BlueEye]

22. If you rewrote the title, "Majority of voters backing Sanders do not want Donald Trump as President"

It makes a lot more sense!

[bvf]

35. Great observation. n/t

[retrowire]

24. Reluctantly, yes. nt

[maddogesq]

25. Bernie voters and the elephant in the room.

I am a Bernie supporter, and like to think I and other supporters are wise in terms of the future direction of the country. That said, the elephant in the room that I never hear about in the MSM is the future of an aging SCOTUS. I suspect that if HRC is the nom, there will be a lot of nose-holders like myself going in the booth in the general election and voting for her for that very reason.

[rpannier]

26. I can't imagine it being any other way across the board

I would have been stunned if the majority of people voting for either of the 3 said they wouldn't support the nominee
Unfortunately, it's always the loudest that get noticed (hence Herr Trumpf)
All of the HRC supporters I know personally said they'd vote for O' Malley or Sanders, same with my friends supporting Sanders and my friends who are voting for O' Malley

[Lil Missy]

30. In the real world, of course they would. DU does not represent reality. n/t

[rpannier]

33. I think DU probably does

But like with the Herr Trumpf crowd, they're just louder than the others

[riversedge]

49. Give what a rest?

[1StrongBlackMan]

32. More evidence that DU is an aberration. eom.

[still_one]

36. LOL

[Liberal_in_LA]

42. They will have to be ok with Clinton because Sanders won't be the nominee

[jhart3333]

45. Amazing

how you can see into the future like that.

[Liberal_in_LA]

47. ..

[winter is coming]

52. Why do all these old posts from 2007 keep getting burped up? n/t

[riversedge]

73. 1+

in solidarity

[Liberal_in_LA]

74. ..

[MeNMyVolt]

48. Think that would go both ways. n/t

[HockeyMom]

64. Of course

Over any of the Clown Car? No brainer.

[Vinca]

65. This is definitely a "well . . . duh" poll.

If I go into the booth and my choice is Hillary or the Donald, it's highly unlikely I'll vote for Herr Trump.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

68. I wouldn't be "OK" or "fine" with it.

It would stink to high heaven as AFAIK, but I would have at that point, unfortunately, no choice but to vote for her.

[Nye Bevan]

71. Yep. Real World != DU (nt)

[Reter]

75. The majority here too

Some of us won't support her if she wins the nomination, but most of us will, especially if it's against Trump or Cruz.

[riversedge]

76. Just cheezeit

[Reter]

78. I don't get that

But I am a supporter if you were wondering.

[belty]

77. African Americans are DROPPING Hillary and ON FIRE for Bernie

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[OldHippieChick]

79. Please everyone remember

This is more than just the Presidency - this is the Supreme Court for possibly the next 20 years. Even if you have to hold your nose to vote for the "other" Democrat - please think of what will happen to the Supreme Court if we don't vote and allow the Repukes to take that branch of the government away for another 2 generations.

[Orsino]

80. Meaningless poll.

Silly to ask, even, at such an early date. Rather slanted to ask the question only one way.