Is Lightning About to Strike Hillary Twice? The Rod Martin Report: January 13, 2016
Hillary’s been inevitable before.
by Rod D. Martin
January 13, 2016
Is lightning about to strike Hillary Clinton for the second time?
Yesterday’s Monmouth University poll has Hillary down 14 points in New Hampshire, 39% to Bernie Sanders’ 53%. And in a primary where independents and even Republicans routinely vote, she’s losing Democrats 42 to 50, down from a 57-35 lead just two months ago.
It gets worse. Voters under 50 prefer the 74 year old Sanders by almost 2 to 1. And equally implausibly Sanders is now beating Hillary among women, 50-44. He’s annihilating her among men, 57-32 (no one talks about this “gender gap,” but they should: Hillary’s latest campaign line is that women make better leaders than men, which is also known as “insulting half your audience”). And for that matter, so is Ted Cruz, who in the most recent Fox News poll has reduced her lead among women from 15 points a month ago to just 3 (Cruz also beats her overall, as do all of the top Republican contenders).
Nationally, a CBS/New York Times poll out ye…