Americans More Optimistic About Sanders’ Presidency Than About Any Other Candidate

[eridani]

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/21/americans-optimistic-sanders-presidency-candidates.html

An unprecedented number of major party candidates are running for president. Yet, Americans remain pessimistic about the entire presidential field going into 2016.

An NBC/WSJ poll asked Americans about individual candidates and whether they were optimistic/satisfied or uncertain/pessimistic about the ability of each individual candidate to do a good job as president.

With every candidate, more voters were uncertain or pessimistic than optimistic or satisfied, but of the announced candidates, voters were less pessimistic about Bernie Sanders than any of the other candidates. 43 percent of American voters expressed optimism about a Sanders’ presidency, compared to 50 percent who did not. His net (-7) optimism to pessimism score was better than Hillary Clinton’s (-13) or any of the Republican candidates.

Voters were much more optimistic about both Sanders and Clinton than they were about GOP front-runner Donald Trump (-35), Texas Senator Ted Cruz (-32), former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (-26) or former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina (-24). The only Republicans that voters were not deeply pessimistic about were Florida Senator Marco Rubio (-13) and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson (-8).

[marym625]

1. K&R!

Bernie is the only candidate running that will actually help our country

[Doctor_J]

2. We need to somehow get large masses of people to vote with optimism instead of

"Vote for Hillary or Trump will build a wall". I think of a survey could be concocted correctly, you would find that Sanders voters are the only bloc who are excited about what the future might hold should their candidate win. The rest of afraid of Hillary or afraid of Trump or afraid of all republicans or whatever.