For the first time, Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire.
Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, leads the former secretary of state 44 percent to 37 percent in New Hampshire among likely 2016 Democratic voters, according to a new Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll.
Sanders trailed Clinton by a 44-8 margin in the same poll in March.
Vice President Joe Biden garnered 9 percent of support, while former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee and former Virginia Gov. Jim Webb barely registered at 1 percent or below.
And while 51 percent of Granite State Democrats say they could support Clinton’s White House bid, just 35 percent say they are “excited” about her campaign. Just 38 percent say they have a “very” favorable impression of Clinton. More than half of those polled however said they view Sanders “very” favorably.
The telephone-based poll of 442 likely Democratic voters in New Hampshire was conducted Aug. 7-10 with a margin of error of plus or minus 4.7 percentage points.
