Hillary Clinton's Favorable Rating Soars, Bernie Sanders Is Stagnant

[DCBob]

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.

[mcar]

1. Wow!

Great news.

[oasis]

2. Great news. Kick and rec.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. It's funny....Bernie supporters were convinced Bernie was going to wipe the floor with Hillary

and the world would fall in love with Bernie after the first debate.

Instead Hillary expanded her lead.

[DCBob]

4. Yes indeed.

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]

5. crickets

You just wait...any day now....yessiree.....gonna happen.... I can feel it.........

[Historic NY]

6. But she is unelectable................

but some people here keep spreading the bullshit the KOCH brothers paid for.....

[leveymg]

7. That one hasn't even played out yet.

Keep your powder dry and wait to see what the AG decides.

[colsohlibgal]

8. The Third Way Wall Street Wing Should Be Thrilled

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]

9. Are you really posting a Fox News style graph??

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]

10. Its a USnews chart.

If it bothers you just refer to the numbers. They tell the same story.

[Fearless]

11. It bothers me because it's deceptive.

[DCBob]

12. What's deceptive?

??

[Fearless]

13. The graph in the OP is deceptive.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. Maybe because the poll wasn't conducted on facebook???

EOM

[NCTraveler]

16. I'm all in the Hillary camp...

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]

17. I can appreciate that.

[ibegurpard]

15. if you add up the numbers on that graph

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.