NYT poll: Half of Dem primary voters said it was still too early to say for sure who they'd vote for

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Despite a month of sharpened attacks, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has failed to significantly dent Hillary Rodham Clinton’s lead in the Democratic presidential race, according to a New York Times/CBS News survey released on Thursday.

Mrs. Clinton has support from 52 percent of Democratic primary voters, while Mr. Sanders has backing from 33 percent, the poll found. In an early October CBS News poll, she led Mr. Sanders 56 percent to 32 percent...

A third Democratic candidate, former Gov. Martin O’Malley of Maryland, will also take part in Saturday’s debate, but he is trailing far behind his rivals. He received 5 percent of the vote in the Times/CBS News poll.

Mr. Sanders and Mr. O’Malley do appear to have room to grow if they can find a way, the poll found: Half of Democratic primary voters said it was still too early to say for sure who they would support.


read: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/12/poll-shows-hillary-clinton-maintaining-lead-over-sanders/?_r=0

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1. kick

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2. Interesting.

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3. Perhaps you missed the following paragraph...

But Mrs. Clinton enjoys a firmer base of voters than Mr. Sanders, according to the poll. Fifty-four percent of her supporters said their minds were completely made up, while 58 percent of Mr. Sanders’s supporters said they had not made a final decision.

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4. doesn't discount the half that's undecided

...and isn't something discouraging to me as an O'Malley supporter.

It would certainly answer the question Sanders supporters have about the challenges that have come about their candidate from O'Malley. This is an opportunity for him to draw from that undecided vote which is basically a someone-other-than-Hillary vote.

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5. There was an article in WSJ about many of the top Obama donors sitting out so far for the

same reason. They aren't "Ready for Hillary" but Sanders or O'Malley hasn't sealed the deal yet.

I really think if O'Malley can have a great debate on Saturday, we'll see some real movement in polls. But, media is setting expectations insanely high for him while acting like Hillary just has to show up and stand there for 2 hours to be the winnner.