Iowa poll shows Sanders vulnerable on gun issue.

[RandySF]

Sanders has climbed steadily in every Iowa Poll this year: 5 percent in January, 15 percent in May, 24 percent in June, 35 percent in August and 41 percent now.

On one potential concern for Sanders, his self-label as a “democratic socialist,” 81 percent are not bothered.

However, the new poll shows he's vulnerable to one corrosive criticism.

“Sanders has a big problem, and it’s guns, not socialism,” pollster J. Ann Selzer said.

Sixty percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers say they feel less supportive of Sanders because he has voted against waiting periods and background checks for gun buyers, positions that were highlighted in the debate. Three-quarters of Clinton voters say his gun stances undermine their support for him, and 46 percent of his own voters agree they're troubling.


http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/10/22/iowa-poll-clinton-up-7-but-gap-tightens/74306980/

[chillfactor]

1. Sanders stance on gun control...

is one of the big reasons I switched my loyalties to Hillary.....

[artislife]

4. Cluster bombing is okay, though...sigh. nt

[Fred Sanders]

5. Cluster conflation is also deadly.

[artislife]

6. Yeah..lets look at the numbers...nt

[Scootaloo]

15. Of course it is. WASPs' kids tend to not get killed by cluster bombs

[jfern]

2. Hillary is terrible on like every other issue

So what that Bernie voted against some gun control bill 24 years ago?

[Uncle Joe]

3. It's ironic but that same article shows Bernie inching closer.

Iowa Poll: Clinton up by 7, but gap tightens

Both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have grown in popularity in Iowa, and the gap between them has slimmed to 7 percentage points, 48 percent to 41 percent, without Joe Biden in the race, a new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll shows.

Clinton, long the presumptive nominee, was 8 points ahead of Sanders in the Iowa Poll in late August. Her support among likely Democratic caucusgoers has climbed 5 points since then.

http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2015/10/22/iowa-poll-clinton-up-7-but-gap-tightens/74306980/

Thanks for the thread, RandySF.

[RandySF]

9. Yep, by a whole point.

[Uncle Joe]

10. Bernie gained that point without running any T.V. ads, Hillary has been running them since August.

[RandySF]

11. With a 3 point margin of error, one point is statistical noise.

[Uncle Joe]

12. By that poll, Hillary hasn't gained on Bernie despite running T.V. ads since August. n/t

[workinclasszero]

7. Yep looks like the anti Brady bill votes

And the protection of Big Gun is coming back to haunt Bernie

[sadoldgirl]

8. Well, again I have to state this:

If the dems look for a fight about gun issues,
they might as well forget the GE.

I live in a state, where two major mass killings have
taken place. Yes, everyone here will tell you that
they want to put a stop to those killings, B U T:
"the government has no right to control MY guns!"

Keep it up, and we will lose for sure!

[Lizzie Poppet]

13. Oh, if she wins the nomination, Hillary will conveniently "forget" gun control.

It's a ridiculous issue for any liberal to base this choice upon, to be blunt. Strict gun control isn't happening, period. Sanders is the more progressive candidate on almost every other point...and most of those points are of greater importance to the nation's future.

[Cha]

14. Good.

[uponit7771]

16. +1, those are mostly white caucusgoers too.. would like to see those number among PoC

... in places like Chicago where guns have desimated whole nieghborhoods