As noted in Kossack chandu's post, the MSM isn't paying much attention to Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' ongoing, upward trajectory in the national polls. Yesterday, however, Reuters/Ipsos released the results of an online poll of 1,529/1,591 Democrats, surveyed from Saturday, June 6th through Wednesday, June 10th (MoE +/-2.8%), and it appears that the whole country's beginning to "Feel the Bern," not the least of whom being Hillary Clinton, who polled a disappointing 49% among Democratic voters, with Senator Sanders still a distant second, at 16%, among a large set of choices, which included just about every Democrat (except for Elizabeth Warren) that's mentioned the word, "primary," in the past year.

Perhaps more significantly, in a three-way race between Clinton, Sanders and Vice President Joe Biden, the results among 1,591 Dems were: Clinton 53%, Sanders 22%, and Biden 19% (7% of self-identified Dems signified they wouldn't vote). As they like to preface results like this here in the Empire State, "Not for nuthin'", but Bernie has cut the difference between himself and Hillary from approximately 50%-55% to 31%-33%, just a little over a month out of the gate, with only a few campaign appearances outside of his home state, negligible spending, and seven months before the first polls and caucuses, in January.

Not too shabby!

Granted, a 31-/33-point lead is nothing less than massive in any political race; but, it's a far cry from poll results published through the end of May which had the former Secretary of State and New York Senator with a whopping 50-/60-point lead (depending upon whatever poll one was reading) over the rest of the still-growing field, just a few weeks ago.

Perhaps, what distinguishes this poll from others, to date, is that it's the only national poll that's been published since Sanders completed his swing through Iowa, Minnesota and New Hampshire, earlier last week.

Here's the link to the comprehensive results from the Ipsos Public Affairs' Poll on Core Political Approval, conducted in conjunction with Reuters.

(Reminder: I'm really not much of a believer in these absurdly early polls, but for the first time since I can remember--perhaps ever--I'm watching what's happening, so far, early-poll-wise in the Democratic primary race, and it's fascinating.)



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