Clinton's Lead On Sanders Shrinks Heading Into Michigan Primary

[Purveyor]

Source: Fox2 Detroit

The race for delegates in Michigan has tightened in the Democratic side of the ticket s we approach the primary.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to lead Vermont U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders for democratic nomination from Michigan. However, her lead has shrunk 10% in the past week.

In the most recent Mitchell/FOX 2 Detroit Poll of 616 likely voters, Clinton holds the lead of 55% to Sanders' 37%. That's an 18% lead but it's dropped 10% in the last few days as Sanders has been outspending Clinton on TV ads.

Read more: http://www.fox2detroit.com/news/elections-2016/100613349-story

[Kalidurga]

1. Interesting

I wonder how Michiganders feel about Hillary's vote on clean ground water.

[NorthCarolina]

3. I suspect the majority have no idea.

It's not like it's been discussed in the MSM. People that frequent sites like this, or peruse certain twitter hashtags might be aware, but the majority of folks I suspect have no knowledge of it.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

7. If we really had an educated electorate, we'd be in better shape today.

[NorthCarolina]

16. A dumb populace is essential to maintaining the status-quo.

eom

[lostnfound]

17. It's hard for tv to do enough edumicating

When they have trump buying 42 minutes of ads per hour...

What's that you say? He didn't have to pay for their ads?

[pangaia]

20. Right. Buying?

The last 3-4 times I've been at the Y to work out.. he's on CNN practically non-stop.. once for 45 minutes straight.. another time his photo was in the background during other interviews, and a day or so ago they covered an entire speech about who knows what.. All because he said he was ''going to make a speech.'

[Jitter65]

5. A 2006 vote that she has since made up for with her environmental efforts? What is she

proposing now? What is Bernie proposing now or is he just resting on Hillary's past vote on this? People care about what you are doing for them in the present.

[tabasco]

6. Honest and sincere question.

Can you tell me more about her environmental efforts?

Was that in the Senate?

[FailureToCommunicate]

21. Here you go...

This would do harm to her support if more people knew about it.

http://usuncut.com/news/hillary-clinton-groundwater-pollution/

[Kalidurga]

10. You don't make up for polluting the environment

or poisoning kids with lead. Sure you can try to make amends, but that kind of thing effects people's health and it can in many cases be long term and/or for life.

[Herman4747]

14. Just how has she "made up for it"?

By favoring fracking?

Link: How Hillary Clinton's State Department Sold Fracking to the World

[monicaangela]

26. FLIP.......FLOP

When will it stop? When will she get it right the first time? My guess is NEVER.

[INdemo]

8. It was NAFTA that sent their jobs to Mexico and Hillary was a very big

part of getting that legislation passed..So why do they support her???????

[Kalidurga]

12. Michigan was in trouble long before NAFTA

and even before Hillary voted against clean water. But, those things definitely have not helped the situation in Michigan at all. Michigan is a state that is in serious trouble and has been for decades, since the 1970's at least. I moved because I saw an economy that was tanking and I didn't see anyone making a move to fix it and it's just gotten worse since the 1980's.

[silvershadow]

22. Yeah, but there was still no reason for it to begin with. We need the jobs as badly as other

countries. It was all about union-busting. Unions are about more than just better pay and benefits and a voice in the workplace. They know it. Apparently we have forgotten it, or we'd be fighting like hell to this very day. And I mean, every one of us, not just union families/supporters. It actually is a paramount issue.

[Peace Patriot]

31. Absolutely! Unions EDUCATE THEIR MEMBERS, for one thing...

...union members are much better informed than most non-union workers and others!

I was so impressed with the clip I saw yesterday, in MI I think, of several unions meeting with Sanders. Sanders was speaking at a press conference with a lot of union members present. And he was speaking about the "free trade" issue in a much more detailed way than in his stump speech. The union reps and members knew exactly what he was talking about, and looked very happy that he was saying it--and applauded a lot.

That's the kind of citizenry we need!

[silvershadow]

32. I fought a company very, very hard many years ago, as an organizer. Eventually I

got my case to Washington. At that time, the NLRB only had two members seated, out of 5, and I didn't win. If it had been later, after President Obama was able to fill those seats, I'm guessing the outcome would have been very, very different. I learned a lot, all on the job, from the union I was working with. Not the least of which was confidence. Confidence not only in myself and my abilities, but also in what I was speaking about and fighting for, and the ways of the world. These people I was was fighting for were mostly uneducated folks who were being taken advantage of, and who didn't know how to recognize it (in the form of Independent Contractor Agreements and fancy accounting). Had we won, we would have been only the second such group in the country to have won protections as Independent Contractors in our field (at that time).

[lostnfound]

18. I think a lot of middle class in Michigan have bought the idea that...

Unions were too greedy and the poor have ruined Detroit. Or something like that. The brainwashing that has gone on over the last thirty years, to blame the bottom.

[Kaleva]

19. Here's the roll call vote

Clinton, along with many liberals in the Senate, voted against it. Lots of Repubs voted for it.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00213

[JDPriestly]

24. Could you post an OP on that vote? I don't know what you are talking about.

I'm a Bernie supporter, and that issue is important to me. Please explain what you are talking about.

[Kalidurga]

36. If you don't mind doing an OP

I would do it, but this is not my area of expertise it's only something I read about here a couple of days ago.

http://usuncut.com/news/hillary-clinton-groundwater-pollution/

[forest444]

2. They're feeling the Bern - and the electability.

Hillary would be the best GOTV incentive for Republican voters you can possibly imagine. She doesn't have a prayer against Trump, and I'm glad more Democratic voters are beginning to see that.

[marions ghost]

35. I HOPE you're right

that more Dem voters are seeing that she has no prayer against tRump.

[Beacool]

4. She's still predicted to win the state.

Despite the shrinking lead, Steve Mitchell, CEO of Mitchell Research & Communications said Clinton's lead will probably hold.

“Hillary Clinton continues to lead Bernie Sanders by a large margin, but her lead has been getting smaller this week. Clinton still seems poised to win in Michigan next Tuesday,” Mitchell said.

[INdemo]

11. Maybe but its not a winner take all..the loser will still get delegates

[Beacool]

15. Yes, we all are aware of that fact.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. She may win Michigan, but ...

I know of two votes she didn't get.

A couple of old farts voted for Sanders.

[navarth]

13. Here here

This here old fart is planning on volunteering for Bernie tomorrow...if this stinkin' job I'm on doesn't make me work Saturday!

Come on Great Lakes State, don't let us down!!

[Helen Borg]

33. Hey guys, you are supposed to be Hillary demographics!

[roamer65]

37. I'm voting for Bernie. N/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

23. Well he's sure to win now

[Kokonoe]

25. Nobody in Michigan would vote for Hillary, if they know what we know online.

[Happenstance24]

27. You guys still don't get it, do you? This is becoming absolutely comical at this point. -nt

[LovingA2andMI]

29. #FYI...

There has NOT been talk of any poll in Michigan in the Democratic Primary since all this week, last week, that month prior -- then all of a sudden today, Fox 2 News has a magical poll....

I smell BS.

[Purveyor]

30. Oh that damn right wing conspiracy after all...

[etherealtruth]

34. There was a 3/1/16 poll ... here's a link to polling in Michigan

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/mi/michigan_democratic_presidential_primary-5224.html