Bernie Is The ONLY Candidate With A Positive Approval Rating In Iowa & New Hampshire

[99th_Monkey]

Bernie Sanders Is The Only Candidate With A Positive Approval Rating In Iowa And New Hampshire
Sunday, July, 26th, 2015 * By Jason Easleymore from Jason Easley * Politicus

Two new NBC News-Marist polls of Iowa and New Hampshire found that Bernie Sanders is the only presidential candidate in either party who has a positive approval rating in each state.

Here are the net approval ratings for the top candidates in Iowa:

Sanders +3 (30 percent/27 percent)
Rubio -1 (31 percent/32 percent)
Walker -1 (30 percent/31 percent)
Bush -12 (34 percent/46 percent)
Clinton -19 (37/56 percent)
Trump -28 (32 percent/60 percent)

Here are the net approval ratings for the top candidates in New Hampshire:

Sanders +12 (41 percent/29 percent)
Bush -5 (40 percent/45 percent)
Walker -6 (28 percent/34 percent)
Rubio -6 (28 percent/34 percent)
Clinton -20 (37 percent/57 percent)
Trump -40 (27 percent/67 percent)

Bernie Sanders is easily the most personally popular candidate in either party. Sanders is benefitting from the fact that no one is attacking him. Clinton is facing daily attacks in the media from Republicans while the issue based Sanders campaign has been resonating with Democratic voters across the country. ~snip~

The fact that none of the top candidates beyond Sanders has a positive personal approval rating speaks volumes about the current negative political environment among the electorate. None of the Republicans is the kind of popularity magnet that can carry them to the White House.

Bernie Sanders is the one positive messenger of the 2016 campaign. Approval ratings will change as the campaign moves forward, but Sen. Sanders has built a level of popularity that no other current 2016 candidate can match.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/26/bernie-sanders-candidate-positive-approval-rating-iowa-hampshire.html

Woot! Go Bernie Go!

[azmom]

1. Woot! Go Bernie Go!

[restorefreedom]

2. feel the bern!! nt

[moobu2]

3. He's gotten all positive press so far though

wait till they decide to turn on him. The Republicans aren't attacking him because they want him to do some damage to Hillary before she wins the primary. You know how they are.

[99th_Monkey]

4. Bernie has become very adept at deflecting M$M's nonsensical 'gotcha' questions

He's had a decades of practice, and it's paying off.

I'm not too worried about the attacks, because all Chuck Toady could come
up with was a fictional sex article 42 YEARS AGO.

His record is impeccable, though I expect them to go after Bernie on
gun control, I also expect Bernie to modulate his position to reflect what
the nation needs, rather than what Vermont hunters want in that regard..

[monmouth4]

5. Chuckie Todd found that out this morning. Such a thing of beauty....n/t

[daybranch]

6. Ah come on, Main Stream Media tried to avoid Bernie

and every time Hillary dribbles out a little democratic thought they act as if she invented a cure for cancer. Now Chuck Toady tries to attack Bernie and like Hillary's other protagonist Claire McClasky goes down in a blaze of ineptness. Meanwhile Hillary still tries to hide under her scripted rocks but everyday her unpopularity grows as more and more recognize she cannot serve the people and the diametrically opposed rich class who exploit the people.
Hillary is caught again between a rock and a hard place. That position will become more untenable everyday. Bernie speaks what we believe. She tries to calm us with platitudes and supposed competence. But her goals cannot be our goals and we will not support her or republicans who also work for the rich. Bernie's time has come as the people's time has come. When you attack Bernie, we take it personal because Bernie's ideas are ours too.

[George II]

7. But it's not getting him any votes.....

...he's still behind Clinton in Iowa by 32 points and in New Hampshire by 14 points (and behind nationally by 39 points).

I'd be willing to bet that if they included Taylor Swift in the poll she'd be + double digits.

[SoapBox]

8. Every minute, of every day, Americans are learning about Bernie.

And once they shake off the shock of thinking that they can't believe that someone is truly speaking to them, about issues that really matter to all of them...

They get on board! And they get on board in a big way!

July 29, 2015...over 1,500 local and home organizational meetings...groups as small as 10 to groups in the hundreds...across every single corner of America, even Guam!

This is a storm...a big, BIG storm.

Go Bernie!

[WillyT]

9. HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[Cheese Sandwich]

10. That's actually a very interesting poll thanks!

[99th_Monkey]

11. You are most welcome Cheese Sandwich!

I just watched Bernie's live-stream .. I'm so ready for this.

Woot! Let's do this!

[BainsBane]

12. But not among Democrats. Hillary is more popular among Democrats

Bernie makes up for it with Republicans.

[99th_Monkey]

13. Yes. Independents & Republicans are changing their registration to DEMOCRAT

to bigger the Big Tent to vote for Bernie ... and this is somehow a 'bad' thing?

[BainsBane]

14. Actually, Sanders supporters are working to open up primaries

beyond the party, and just succeeded in Oklahoma. What evidence do you have that the "very conservative" voters who support Sanders are registering as Democrats? Why would they?

I think for the white upper-middle and middle class, building alliances with Republicans of their similar race and class is probably to their benefit. For the subaltern, however, it is not. That Republican support is contingent on not working for the interests of the non-white male majority. Now that Sanders is making a concerted effort to appeal to African Americans, as I saw in his conference call tonight, I expect he will lose the support of those conservatives.

[Cheese Sandwich]

15. He's attracting working class independents and gops because his policies help the working class

It's literally that simple. He rails against international "free trade" deals, for higher wages, against wall street, against big money control over government. It's called populism for a reason - because it's popular.

[99th_Monkey]

16. I see

that you keep entirely missing the central point of Bernie's candidacy.

No big surprise here, as I've seen that bias in most of your previous posts,
so I'm not holding my breath for that to change anytime soon.

You keep trying to fit Bernie into a "political-business-as-usual" pigeon-hole,
because "everyone knows" that's "how the game is played" ... and he just
is not fitting anywhere in your grid, and gratefully so.

Bernie is trusting his gut & putting one foot in front of the other, and people
see his honesty and feel like they are waking up from a horrible dream, because
actually .. they are doing just that.

And it's spreading faster than ANY one imagined that it could, including Bernie
Sanders.

So you keep lobbing your stink-bombs, insults & innuendoes all you please,
because it's not working, and it will keep working less as time passes and
his campaign grows legs the size of an old-growth cedar.



Because then .. oopsie ... it will way be too late to stop it.

[postatomic]

17. Have never heard of this "blog" or whatever it is

So I went to the Source they were getting their numbers from;

On the Democratic side, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remains the front-runner for her party’s nomination, but Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has cut into Clinton’s lead in both states. In Iowa, Clinton is ahead of Sanders, 55% to 26%, among the potential Democratic electorate. Although Clinton is solidly ahead of Sanders, she previously had a 61 point lead over him in last February’s NBC News/Marist Poll.

A similar pattern is seen in New Hampshire where Clinton is currently ahead of Sanders by 13 points, 47% to 34%, among the state’s potential Democratic electorate. Earlier this year, Clinton held a 56 point lead over Sanders.


http://maristpoll.marist.edu/726-ia-walker-trump-vie-for-lead-nh-trump-leads-gop-sanders-closes-gap-against-clinton/

All of these numbers are pretty irrelevant at this point. But Sanders is chipping away on at least this "poll". Good news to I'm sure more than a few people.

I'll wait till they come for the Piano.