Are we just one simple stat away from a real game changer?
As has already been duly noted at the KOS, a new poll conducted by NBC and the Wall Street Journal shows Hillary Clinton now leading all of the GOP presidential candidates (NBC/WSJ Poll), except Ben Carson with whom she is tied 47/47. The headline read "Poll: Clinton Ties Carson in '16 Matchup, but Tops Other GOP Candidates".
But buried at the end of the report was something potentially much more significant, and (I found), rather odd:
The NBC/WSJ poll also tested Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders against Trump and Rubio, and Sanders outperforms Clinton -- though by just a point or two.
Sanders leads Trump by nine points, 50 percent to 41 percent (versus Clinton's eight-point advantage), and he's ahead of Rubio by five points, 46 percent to 41 percent (versus Clinton's three-point lead).
The media have been muffling the fact that Sanders is doing better than Hillary against most of the GOP candidates for a while now. But why in the world would they not even publish how Sanders did against the GOP front-runner, while having no problem showing us how he fared against numbers two and three?
Personally I think it may have to do with the fact that they would then certainly know the headline would have to be, "Nationally, the Socialist Senator from Vermont, Bernie 'But-He-Could-Never-Win' Sanders, is, in fact, now the country's #1 choice for President of the United States." And how could that mind-blowing fact be allowed to dominate the national conversation?
Ironically, it seems that the only thing standing between Bernie and the Presidency (at least for the moment), is his own party...