Inching Forward Little By Little

Polls

It seems as though Bernie Sanders is still left in the dust of Clinton's massive takeoff. Though, his polls have increased slowly since he first began in the month of November with an average RCP poll of 27% but has now inched forward 6% to today's poll, where he stands at 33%. Which is 19% less than Clinton's staggering 52%.

The New York Times and CBS News released a series of polls demonstrating democrat's opinion on both Hilary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. According to their polls 62% of the democratic primary voters believe that Clinton would make a real change in Washington while 51% say that Sanders would do so. They also have another poll stating that 24% of these democratic voters believe that Hilary Clinton would be more likely to get her policies enacted as president, 57% say she is somewhat likely, while 17% say that she is not very likely to get such policies enacted. Whereas, 8% think that Sanders would be more likely to get his policies going, 63% say that he is somewhat likely, and 24% say he is not likely to do so. As mentioned in an earlier post, many people are unhappy with the way that the government is working, and they want to see changes. Which, according to the statistics, more people feel as though it is possible with Hilary Clinton. Even though Sanders has a higher percentage of people who believe he could probably get his policies enacted, Clinton has the upper hand when it comes to confident followers. In fact, she has the upper hand in most of the polls released by CBS News and The New York Times. Thus, explaining why she leading Sanders.

Nevertheless, The New York Times states that Bernie Sanders may have more room to grow as long as he could find a way to win over the 50% of democratic voters who feel as though it is too early to tell who to fully support in this election.

New Positions

As of today Sanders does not seem to have any significant new positions.

Challenges

According to The New York Times' article Bernie Sanders needs to find way to make his left wing approach into one with a broad appeal that is more acceptable for the democratic majority. He will have to find a way to do this during the upcoming debate on Saturday night.

Sources

RCP Average: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_democratic_presidential_nomination-3824.html

CBS News/The New York Times Poll: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/poll-hillary-clinton-bests-sanders-as-the-democrats-change-candidate/

Challenge/polls: http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/11/12/poll-shows-hillary-clinton-maintaining-lead-over-sanders/