NBC News is reporting that Bernie Sanders has reached his highest level of support in their NBC News poll to date. It’s been a steady climb for Sanders and although there was only a small increase of support in the last month what’s remarkable is that Sanders continued to gain support throughout what has been described as Hillary Clinton’s best month so far. The huge Biden bump never materialized for Clinton and the Benghazi hearings also did not seem to trigger any massive support. Those two events may have slowed downslides for Clinton but Bernie continues to eat away at her support. His numbers with black voters doubled in last month although they are only at 16% now. But at least there is upward trajectory so next poll should provide more insight.
NBC: Sanders at highest level of support to date
Bernie Sanders has reached his highest level of support this year in the latest NBC News/SurveyMonkey online poll. Sanders is now the preferred candidate of 33% of Democratic and independent voters who lean Democratic. However, he still trails Hillary Clinton by 16 points, and his slight gain of 3 points since last month's poll is barely perceptible and within the poll's error estimate of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points. Martin O'Malley has struggled to make any kind of impact on Democratic voters, despite now having been on a national debate stage twice with his rivals.
So Bernie has survived an onslaught. Now that Clinton is aggressively promoting her war bona fides we look forward to seeing how that will affect future support.
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