2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Clinton's Favorable Rating Soars, Bernie Sanders Is Stagnant
From US News and World Report
Hillary's Had a Really Good Month
The presidential candidate has seen her positive perception among Democrats spike, meaning Bernie Sanders has a lot of work to do.
As Hillary Clinton surges ahead in favorability, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., can't seem to gain any traction.
By Casey Leins Nov. 11, 2015 | 3:09 p.m. EST
Democrats are really, really starting to like Hillary Clinton.
The front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination has seen her net favorable rating jump 14 points among Democrats and those who lean to the left since the first Democratic debate in October, while her top competitor Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont has seen his own rating stay fairly stagnant, according to Gallup polling released this week. Both candidates, along with former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, will take the stage again Saturday in Iowa for the second official debate of the Democratic primary.
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According to Gallup, Clinton now has a 63 percent net favorable rating among those on the left, up from 49 percent just before the debate. Her current tally is her highest since Gallup began tracking views of the candidates in July.
Sanders, though, has a lot of work to do. While many Democrats were impressed with his debate performance, he apparently didn't do enough to change opinions of him. Since just before the debate, his net favorable rating has dropped 1 percentage point to 38.
More: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2015/11/11/hillary-clintons-favorable-rating-soars-bernie-sanders-is-stagnant
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This contradicts the argument that many Bernie supporters have been adamantly pushing that more debates would help Bernie. Clearly its quite the opposite based on the results from the first event.
Great news.
oasis
(49,388 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)and the world would fall in love with Bernie after the first debate.
Instead Hillary expanded her lead.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)I knew all along that was a false assumption on their part. Hillary is a very good debater... smart, quick, confident, no nonsense, presidential.
enid602
(8,620 posts)You just wait...any day now....yessiree.....gonna happen.... I can feel it.........
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)but some people here keep spreading the bullshit the KOCH brothers paid for.....
leveymg
(36,418 posts)Keep your powder dry and wait to see what the AG decides.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)We have to veer from the rigged game we now have, and Hillary is not going to veer much or not veer at all. Sooner or later democrats should go back to being real ones.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)You know, the ones that actually aren't representing what you claim they are... and whose Y-axis is apparently different at different points on the x-axis.
DCBob
(24,689 posts)If it bothers you just refer to the numbers. They tell the same story.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)DCBob
(24,689 posts)??
Fearless
(18,421 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)EOM
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)and I'll say it's horrible that chart would make it past an editor. I spotted two issues in the first second I looked at it. Like the overall op and it isn't their graph. I see it all too often.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)Which is hard to do by the way since it's a bar graph and not actually numbers...Hillary's total favorables and unfavorables add up to almost 100 while Bernie's totals are are not quite fifty. Which means the majority of people polled have no opinion at all of him. She has nowhere to go but down while it's wide open for him. This is just another measurement of name recognition...and general population numbers are similar: she has reached the saturation point and her actual favorables are underwater.