Bernie Sanders Has Snagged His First Lead in the Polls Over Hillary Clinton in Iowa (1/12/16)
Three weeks from the start of primary season in the US, Bernie Sanders has scored his first lead over frontrunner Hillary Clinton in the Iowa caucus, the first contest in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The results of poll released on Tuesday by the independent Quinnipiac University found that the Vermont Senator is drawing 49 percent support among likely Democratic voters, compared with Clinton's 44 percent and former Maryland governor Martin O'Malley's 4 percent. The latest survey showed an abrupt reversal of fortunes for the top two Democratic candidates from a December 15 poll that had Clinton leading Sanders in Iowa 51-40.
Support for Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has surged since he announced his candidacy last May. The 74-year-old Sanders received an unprecedented 2.5 million individual financial contributions to his campaign last year. Despite the upward trend in public opinion polls for Sanders, doubts about his chances of winning the nomination over the former secretary of state have dogged his campaign. Sanders currently lags some 12 percentage points behind Clinton in a composite of Democratic nomination polls provided by Real Clear Politics.
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