Two New Iowa Polls Give Clinton Massive Leads Over Sanders

Donald Trump might not think polls are “not very scientific” now that he’s trailing Ben Carson, but Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton earned some big numbers from two new Iowa polls on Tuesday.

According to Talking Points Memo, a Monmouth University poll and a separate second poll garnered 41 and 38-point leads respectively for the former Secretary of State among Iowans most likely to vote for the Democratic Party’s nominated candidate. In the former, Clinton’s 65 points beat out Bernie Sanders‘ 24 points by a wide margin. As for the second one, 61.6 percent of voters opted for Clinton as opposed to 23.6 percent for Sanders.

Never fear, for while you may have forgotten tertiary candidates Martin O’Malley and Lawrence Lessig, these pollsters did not. The former Baltimore mayor and Maryland governor nabbed 5 and 3.2 percent in the Monmouth and second Iowa polls. Lessig, the Harvard professor, earned a measly 1 percent with Monmouth. And the second? Nada, though 10 percent of those polled remain undecided.

Monmouth University’s poll collected data via phone interviews from 400 voters who were likely to attend the state’s Democratic caucus. It’s margin of error rests at 4.9 percent. The second poll, however, got its numbers from 1,000 polled voters via phone interviews and produced a 3.1 percent margin however. Of the 1,000 voters interviewed, half were likely Democratic caucus attendees.

[h/t Talking Points Memo]
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