Poll: Support for Bernie Sanders grows in Iowa, Wisconsin
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Bernie Sanders continues to gain on Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton.
Among Democrats in Iowa, Clinton leads the independent Vermont senator 52 percent to 33 percent, according to a new Quinnipiac University poll. Though the former secretary of state still maintains a double-digit lead over Sanders, the lead has shrunk. In the last poll of Iowa Democrats, conducted in May, Clinton had a commanding lead of 60 percent to Sanders' 15 percent.
"[S]en. Sanders has more than doubled his showing and at 33 percent he certainly can't be ignored, especially with seven months until the actual voting. Iowa Democratic caucus-goers are generally considered more liberal than primary voters in most other states, a demographic that helps his insurgency against Secretary Clinton who is the choice of virtually the entire Democratic establishment," Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll said.
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The poll of roughly 800 likely Democratic Iowa caucus participants was conducted June 20-29 with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points.