Amanda Coyne

The Greenville News

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is ahead of opponent Sen. Bernie Sanders by 50 points in the latest Palmetto Poll released by Clemson University.

Of 650 voters surveyed by phone, 64 percent said they supported Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, while just 14 percent said they would support Sanders. Twenty-two percent of those surveyed were undecided.

Other recent polls have shown Clinton ahead by smaller, albeit still wide margins: between 18 and 29 points. This poll, conducted between Saturday and Thursday of this week, suggests Clinton will have a blowout win over Sanders on Saturday, when Palmetto State Democrats vote.

Clinton has had multiple events across the state every day this week, concentrated in heavily Democratic areas like Columbia, Charleston and Orangeburg, while Sanders has had few and has spent the past two days in the Midwest, campaigning in Super Tuesday states including Minnesota and Missouri.

“After a razor-thin victory by Clinton in the Iowa caucuses, a blowout by Sanders in the New Hampshire primary and a small victory margin by Clinton in the Nevada caucuses, Clinton is perched on the cusp of her own significant primary victory in the Palmetto State,” said Bruce Ransom, a Clemson political science professor and co-director of the poll, in a university release.