Despite winning last week’s Democratic debate — according to party voters — Hillary Clinton’s performance did little for her lead against her competitors.
In a new national CNN/ORC poll of registered Democrats and Democratic-leaning independent voters, the former secretary of state leads the field with 45 percent. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders follows with 29 percent, and Vice President Joe Biden, who still is mulling a run, sits at 18 percent.
In the last CNN/ORC national poll, Clinton took in 42 percent of support, while Sanders had 24 percent. In the same poll, Biden stood at 22 percent.
Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb garnered just 1 percent in the most recent poll, while former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Rhode Island governor and Sen. Lincoln Chafee failed to register.
Among those registered voters polled, Clinton continues to have the highest unfavorable view, 52 percent. While 44 percent view her favorably, 52 percent say the same about Biden and 43 percent view Sanders in a favorable light. Biden and Sanders are viewed unfavorably by 37 percent and 30 percent of registered Democrats, respectively.
Overall, Democrats are so-so satisfied with their field for 2016. Those who are “very satisfied” has risen from 6 percent to 33 percent in the current poll, but those saying they are at least fairly satisfied holds steady at about seven in 10.
The telephone-based poll of 425 registered Democratic and Democratic-leaning independent voters was conducted Oct. 14-17 with a margin of error of plus or minus 5 percentage points.
