The most recent three polls coming out of Nevada have surprised many by indicating that Sanders is tied with Clinton for the primary vote in that state. This news is shocking to many because the previous five polls done in that state indicated Clinton had a commanding lead. However, those previous polls were old with the most recent one collected in December.
When the first poll, of the new year came out on February 8th surveying a massive 1236 people in Nevada, the not-fake-news website DailyNewsBin.com published an article explaining that the poll was a fake manufactured by Republicans in an attempt to undermine Hillary Clinton’s campaign. This of course, coming from a totally legitimate website, coincidentally established in the summer of 2015, which bans commenters who don’t support Hillary Clinton, and almost exclusively publishes articles expressly supporting Hillary Clinton.
Fortunately for those of us supportive of the iconoclast Bernie Sanders, further surveys have confirmed the statistical tie between the candidates.
Yet, a basis for believing that Sanders has equal support in Nevada should not come as a surprise to anybody tracking donor information from the state as far back as December of 2015. Based on the year-end information for 2015 logged with the FEC, in Nevada Sanders had 1450 contributions compared with only 1361 from Clinton.
Not only did Sanders have more logged contributions in Nevada than Clinton for 2015, if you look at contributions over time there has been a steep growth in both number of contributions and the number of contributors (Figures 1 and 2).
| Figure 1: Number of contributions to each democratic campaign over time. |
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| Figure 2: Number of contributors to each democratic campaign over time. |
Both of these figures show the real struggle Clinton has had …read more
Source:: r-bloggers.com