Survey Monkey Poll Says Only Ages 18-24 Are Feelin' the Bern; The Rest of Democrats Are Cool

VOX analyzes this week's NBC Newws/Survey Monkey national poll of Democrats and Democrat leaners, Jan. 4-10 and comes up with ‪#‎s‬that jibe with our own in-depth analysis of numerous polls and reported on this FB wall frequently.

For all the media and Internet hype, the ONLY age group in which Bernie Sanders is way ahead of Hillary Clinton is among the 18-24 age group. You won't hear this fact on MSNBC, but it is the truth as the best we know it.

VOX graphs it out for us.

AGE

Once we look at people age 24-35, Hillary is even with Bernie. After age 35, she pulls out all the stops.

RACE

Whites love Sanders. Period. Among Whites, Clinton and Sanders are even. After that Hillary pulls out all the stops.

GENDER

Men support Hillary over Sanders but by only 6%. We all know that white men support Sanders -- although plenty of smart ones age 24 and over support Hillary.

Among women, Hillary pulls out all the stops, leading Bernie 56% to 32%. This is why Bernie supporters like Susan Sarandon are demeaning women with the suggestion that -- unlike us -- she has a brain and isn't voting with her vagina.

Do the Democrats Have a Next Act? Politico

The Democrats also face a particular challenge in hammering out a coherent new vision. Their party’s internal ideological differences have drawn less attention than the loud intramural arguments among Republicans, but they are in a sense more pronounced. The Sanders-Warren-labor-left wing of the party sees the plight of the middle and working classes as a function of institutional changes over the past 40 years—deregulation, the weakening of unions—that only power politics can overcome by strengthening such institutions and protections once more.

The Clinton-Obama wing is more apt to see such problems as the result of larger forces in the national and global economy—and of rapid technological and social change that must somehow be managed, not resisted.

That is an intensely sharp divide, and one that the Democrats will presumably be forced to reconcile eventually or suffer the consequences of disunion. But bridging the gap will not be easy because the two competing worldviews imply contradictory (even incompatible) political messages and policy proposals.

Hillary Clinton Headlines

Islands of college-town support could hurt Sanders Des Moines Register

Clinton & Sanders Duke It Out Before Iowa & New Hampshire

Iowa Poll: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders virtually tied CBS News

The race between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton is a virtual tie in Iowa, with Clinton leading by just two points. According to a new Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll released Thursday, Clinton has 42 percent of likely Democratic caucus goers, compared to 40 percent for Sanders.

Fifty-seven percent of those surveyed said the election is more about issues than it is about leadership. "Democrats are much more likely than Republicans to say this is an election about issues, rather than leadership. That really explains the division in the party," explained Selzer, according to Bloomberg Politics.

The top issues Democratic caucus-goers, according to the poll, are the economy, civil rights, the wealth gap and national security.

Clinton opens the spigots on Sanders Politico

Clinton played notoriously hard-to-get during the first phase of her campaign — so much so that it was considered breaking news when she agreed to a sit-down interview with CNN.

But over the past 10 days, she has appeared no fewer than nine times on five major networks — CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC and MSNBC, including live three morning-show appearances Wednesday. The former secretary of state has averaged one interview a day since Friday, Jan. 8, when she called into MSNBC’s "Hardball." Three days earlier, she also appeared in an extensive sit-down interview with “Hardball” host Chris Matthews. And the appearances don’t seem to be slowing down: She’ll appear on NBC's “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" and sit down with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow on Thursday, all at the same time her campaign looks to get a boost amid sagging poll numbers.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2016/01/hillary-clinton-bernie-sanders-2016-217711#ixzz3xABlK9vU

Hillary Clinton's Lead Over Bernie Sanders Slipping In New Poll New York Times

A sharp generational divide emerges in the tightening race between Mrs. Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. Democratic primary voters under 45 favori Mr. Sanders by a roughly 2-to-1 ratio in latest CBS/New York Times poll 

"Yet more than 7 in 10 Democratic voters — including most supporters of Mr. Sanders — still believe Mrs. Clinton will ultimately win the party’s nomination. Voters expressed deeper confidence in her ability to be an effective commander in chief and more of her supporters say their minds are made up compared with Mr. Sanders’s backers."

 Just a month ago, Clinton led Mr. Sanders by 20 percentage points nationally. Among Democratic primary voters across the country, 48 percent support Mrs. Clinton, while 41 percent back Mr. Sanders, the poll found.

Hillary Clinton Headlines

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