Most Democrats thought Hillary Clinton won last Tuesday's debate, with 62 percent favoring her performance and 35 percent choosing Bernie Sanders in the latest
CNN/ORC International poll. Martin O'Malley and Jim Webb each got 1 percent.
The poll also showed that Clinton still holds a solid lead nationally among Democrats and Democratic leaners. Here's how things stack up when Joe Biden is left out of the polling:
However, when Biden is in the mix, Clinton's support drops 11 points: Clinton 45 percent, Sanders 29 percent, and Biden 18 percent.
Democrats place their greatest faith in Clinton's ability to handle the economy, race relations, foreign policy, and health care, where she wins a plurality (and in some cases, a majority) of support. Sanders narrows the gap most on climate change and, in particular, income inequality, where 43 percent say they trust Hillary and 38 percent say they trust Bernie to best handle the issue. Sanders gets his lowest marks on gun policy and especially foreign policy, where 62 percent say they trust Clinton, 20 percent say they trust Joe Biden, and just 9 percent say they trust Sanders.
Democrats are evenly split on Biden entering the race, with 47 percent saying he should "get in" and 49 percent saying he should "stay out"—virtually unchanged since last month.
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One area of trouble for the Democrats is that their voters are overall less enthusiastic than Republican voters. Here's how the D's enthusiasm compares to the R's, with Republicans holding a combined 10-point advantage in the "extremely" and "very" enthusiastic categories :