Subject: **ICYMI: Nwe Poll Finds Clinton, Sanders in Dead Heat in N.H**
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 14:22:35 -0400

*Friends -*

*Wanted to flag the following new Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll that
was released today showing Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in a dead
heat in New Hampshire, following Tuesday night's debate. *

*Thanks so much and hope all of you have a great weekend!*

*AE*

*Poll finds Clinton, Sanders in dead heat in N.H.By Stephanie Ebbert *
*BOSTON GLOBE | Oct 16, 2015  *

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/10/16/clinton-sanders-tied/5uI3lKwEfib4uifxrOlkPI/story.html?event=event25

After a commanding performance in this week’s Democratic presidential
debate, Hillary Clinton reclaimed some of the ground she’d lost to Senator
Bernie Sanders over the summer, leaving the two candidates in a statistical
dead heat in New Hampshire, a Suffolk University/Boston Globe poll found.

The survey, conducted Wednesday and Thursday, showed Clinton pulling ahead
of Sanders, 37 percent to 35 percent. The poll of 500 likely voters in the
Democratic primary had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage
points.

Among voters who watched the debate, Clinton opened up a 5-point lead over
Sanders. And despite a pushback from Sanders’ fervid supporters who thought
his strong debate performance was being overlooked by the media, poll
respondents overwhelmingly agreed that Clinton won the debate.

Fifty-four percent of respondents said they thought Clinton won the debate
to 24 percent for Sanders.

“I think Hillary was so strong and so firm and so certain and so educated
in her answers that I was very impressed with her as a candidate,” said
Carolyn Marvin, 73, of Portsmouth, N.H. – who nonetheless is a solid vote
for Sanders. “But if it’s going to be a Democratic candidate, I think she
did amazingly well.”

Still, it was remarkable that the Clinton needed to make up ground at all
with Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist and whose foray into
the Democratic primary was initially greeted with bemusement.

Clinton, the former first lady, US senator and secretary of state, had long
been presumed to be the Democrats’ nominee-in-waiting.

Suffolk’s last New Hampshire survey of the Democratic primary field in June
showed Clinton leading Sanders 41 percent to 31 percent. But Sanders’
popularity surged over the summer at the same time Clinton was dogged by
revelations about her use of a private email server during her time as
secretary of state. By August, polls began to show him overtaking Clinton
in New Hampshire, home to the first-in-the-nation primary.

This data suggests Clinton voters may be coming home, said David
Paleologos, director of the Suffolk University Political Research Center.
“Everybody talks about Bill Clinton being the Comeback Kid, but she’s
trying to become the Comeback Kid here and reclaim what she already had,”
he said.

Respondents to the poll -- nearly 62 percent -- said the email issue does
not bother them, echoing Sanders’ frustration when the candidate atypically
rushed to a rival’s defense during the debate.

“I’m really just sick of hearing about it,” said Sarah Stowe, 39, a Conway,
N.H., mother of six who said Clinton’s emails are her own business. “I
probably know less about it because I ignore it.”

Those surveyed responded almost exactly the same way to the email question,
regardless of whether they had watched the debate. The percentage of voters
who are troubled by the story dipped two points, to 36 percent, since June,
when Suffolk asked the same question.

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Adrienne K. Elrod
Director of Strategic Communications & Amplification
Hillary For America
*www.hillaryclinton.com <http://www.hillaryclinton.com>*
@adrienneelrod