Sanders Gets 41% in Straw Poll

Rick Klein: “Straw polls don’t count for anything, and second place is, well, second place. But how many of these before it will become something? Hillary Clinton captured 49 percent of the vote at the Wisconsin Democratic Party’s convention over the weekend, in a straw poll conducted by WisPolitics.com. The story, though, was second place: Bernie Sanders got 41 percent, just eight points behind Clinton and far ahead of his low-single-digits rivals.”

“It’s the latest sign that Sanders is poised to inherit at least a solid portion of the Ready-for-Warren energy. And it speaks to a longstanding contention that if Clinton is vulnerable, it’s on her left. The labor-friendly progressives who dominate Wisconsin Democratic politics aren’t necessarily representative of the primary electorate, though Wisconsin was among the states that broke Clinton’s heart in the 2008 primaries. With recent events putting Clinton’s vulnerabilities on greater display, the possibility of at least one of her challengers getting a serious look is growing.”