According to a new CNN poll, Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose husband ended nearly 30 years of consecutive GOP electoral college wins in New Hampshire, would defeat Republican front-runner Donald J Trump by nearly 10% points.
This despite the fact Hillary is not from the near vicinity, and unlike Joe Biden, is an actual candidate. Non-candidates win very often in polls: look how Colin Powell for President 1996 did.
To be fair, all Democrats beat Trump there. Thing is that outside of the vicinity of Bernie Sanders Vermont, IMV, Hillary is the stronger candidate for getting the votes of industrial midwest, Appalachian, and working class whites.
A little history on New Hampshire: from 1968-1988, it voted Republican every time. From 1992 onward, it has voted Democratic 5 out of 6 times, and the only time it voted GOP, it did by a small sliver, in 2000. It's not a true swing state like Ohio and Florida, but still would've put Gore in the WH in 2000. It gets called a swing state because Dem margins aren't as big as they are in Vermont, Maine, Connecticut (all of which voted GOP at least 5 times from 1968-1988 and Dem 6 for 6 since the Clintons in 1992) or Mass, RI, or NY. Overall tho, the GOP's shots of winning are sparse in NH, but better than their neighboring states.
Wait, I thought Hillary was "vulnerable" yet she's winning despite the attacks. The other Democrats haven't been subjected to what Hillary has, even tho they would be if they were nominees (or serious contenders).