New Nat'l Poll: Clinton Barely Ahead Trump! Bernie 48% to 39%!!!! Only Bernie Can Win the GE!!!!!!!

[amborin]

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2016/06/01/poll-clinton-barely-ahead-trump-nationally/85206228/

Hillary Clinton holds just a slight advantage over Donald Trump nationally, but her lead grew tighter when third-party candidates are added into the race.

A Quinnipiac University Poll out Wednesday found that when Clinton and Trump were one-on-one in a national general election matchup, she held a 4-point lead over the billionaire, 45% to 41%.

That number tightens even more when Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein were added. When all four candidates were factored in, the former secretary of State had 40%, Trump had 38%, Johnson had 5% and Stein got 3%.

The Trump-Clinton matchup had a noticeable gender gap. Fifty-one percent of men went Republican, while 35% of men went Democratic. Meanwhile, 54% of women surveyed backed Clinton, while 30% supported Trump.

There is some good news for Bernie Sanders in the survey. The Vermont senator led Trump in a general election matchup 48% to 39%. However, with Democrats he lagged behind Clinton 53% to 39%. In the Democratic delegate race, Sanders is hundreds of delegates behind Clinton when superdelegates (party leaders and elected officials) are included.

[tonyt53]

1. First day of June. Lay off the polls until Labor Day. Oh, and Bernie has not felt the GOP wrath

They would tear his life apart, and he has provided lots of ammo.

[lagomorph777]

2. Apparently Dems don't want to win; they just want Hillary as nominee.

A recent poll also shows most Dems will be perfectly happy with her campaigning from a jail cell.

What have we become?

[beachbum bob]

3. june 16th can't come quick enough..btw...the betting markets disagree

and the voters have disagreed

[Trust Buster]

4. Memo to amborin: You can't win the GE if you're not on the ballot. Sanders isn't, so he won't.

CIVICS 101.

[WhiteTara]

5. If only he could win the Democratic nomination. nt

[valerief]

6. Damn straight only Bernie can win! If we only had fair elections in the U.S. nt

[RandySF]

7. And McCain led Obama in May, 2008

[9999dmg]

13. So Hillary is the McCain of '16. Nt

[tabasco]

17. No, he didn't.

Why do you continue to post false information?

[LizetteWest]

8. Bernie is the dems only chance, Clinton would have lost in 08 to Mccain also.

She is just getting party favors, everyone knows she would have lost in 08 and will lose in 16 if elected.

Luckily Obama snuck through the door last time.

[Surya Gayatri]

9. "However, with Democrats he lagged behind Clinton 53% to 39%."

Who knew? You'd never guess this reality from reading GeeDee-Pee.

[floppyboo]

12. She's going to need more than democrats to win the GE.

I'm sorry to replay that bite for you. It's getting tiring as it really is like banging your head on a wall. But remember when you believed in Santa, or, anything magical? And it turns out to be a little too real, some flesh and blood thing?

[AzDar]

10. K & R

[uponit7771]

11. Bernie who? tia

[MisterP]

14. "we'll turn it around!" say the people who said "Trump'll never win" and "Clinton will sweep VT"

[andym]

15. Not great that neither Hillary nor Sanders are over 50%

That is the magic number for gauging support for a GE win and its kind of surprising.

[MillennialDem]

16. It's HER TURN. Fuck the party and the people!