# Sanders leading in NH polls

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [August 12, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sanders-leading-in-nh-polls/727626 "2015-08-12T04:00:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sanders-leading-in-nh-polls/727626/1 "2015-08-12T04:00:46Z")

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> **[Poll: Bernie Sanders surges ahead of Hillary Clinton in N.H., 44-37](https://www.bostonherald.com/2015/08/12/poll-bernie-sanders-surges-ahead-of-hillary-clinton-in-nh-44-37/)**
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> Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has rocketed past longtime front-runner Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, a stunning turn in a race once considered a lock for the former secretary of…

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has rocketed past longtime front-runner Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, a stunning turn in a race once considered a lock for the former secretary of state, a new Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll shows.

Sanders leads Clinton 44-37 percent among likely Democratic primary voters, the first time the heavily favored Clinton has trailed in the 2016 primary campaign, according to the poll of 442 Granite-Staters.  
As anathema as Sanders’ views are to me, it would be good to see boring, entitled, robotic, conniving Hillary being dropped into the dustbin of history where she belongs.

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**Author:** ![Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kolak_of_twilo/32/73_2.png) [@Kolak\_of\_Twilo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolak_of_Twilo)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sanders-leading-in-nh-polls/727626/2 "2015-08-12T04:12:01Z")

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The public has little fondness for dynasties or “inevitable” candidates, whether they be named Clinton or Bush. Whether this is a mindset that will last through the fall of 2016 I haven’t a clue. But I do think both Hillary and Jeb! should be concerned.

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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2015, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sanders-leading-in-nh-polls/727626/3 "2015-08-12T06:57:09Z")

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> [@Terr](#):
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> [Poll: Bernie Sanders surges ahead of Hillary Clinton in N.H., 44-37 – Boston Herald](http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2015/08/bernie_sanders_surges_ahead_of_hillary_clinton_in_nh_44_37)
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> Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders has rocketed past longtime front-runner Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, a stunning turn in a race once considered a lock for the former secretary of state, a new Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll shows.
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> Sanders leads Clinton 44-37 percent among likely Democratic primary voters, the first time the heavily favored Clinton has trailed in the 2016 primary campaign, according to the poll of 442 Granite-Staters.  
> As anathema as Sanders’ views are to me, it would be good to see boring, entitled, robotic, conniving Hillary being dropped into the dustbin of history where she belongs.

Speaking as a Bernie supporter, 1) one poll doesn’t make an election and 2) this is not a particularly reliable pollster, having been conducted by someone who was fired from UNH (whose polls in turn are fairly poor quality).