Friday, February 5, 2016

Clinton holds commanding lead over Sanders in Michigan

With about a month to go until the Michigan primary, Hillary Clinton holds a commanding 32-point lead over Bernie Sanders in the Great Lakes State, according to a new poll.
The Inside Michigan Politics survey found Clinton with a 62-37 percent lead, with 7 percent undecided.

"Women of all ages in Michigan are standing behind Clinton right now," said Ed Sarpolus, director of Target Insyght, the firm that conducted the automated poll. "Sanders has a major hill to climb by March 8. He didn't get an Iowa bounce."
"Even if he scores big in the New Hampshire primary next week, as expected, Michigan still looks to be tough sledding,” said Susan Demas, editor and publisher of Inside Michigan Politics. “And 76 percent of Clinton's voters here already say they're committed, while only 53 percent of Sanders voters do."

On the Republican side, Iowa also seems to have had little impact on Michigan primary voters. With the help of a plurality of evangelicals, Donald Trump has shaken off his disappointing second-place finish in Iowa and leads the Michigan pack by double digits at 35 percent.

The GOP contest here shapes up as a three-way race between Trump, Ted Cruz (25 percent) and Marco Rubio (19 percent), as the other five candidates are lagging in single digits.

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