behind. a new national poll today from cbs and the new york times has hillary clinton in the lead nationally. the poll shows you everything you need to know about how that happened, about the state of the race. eight weeks ago, senator sanders held a double digit lead for the pollings, it was sanders, 45, clinton just 32. bernie s numbers haven t fallen, but his lead has been clinton is surging in iowa, too, sanders was neck and neck with clinton back in september. now she has a 24-point lead and the polling average is there. so has bernie burned out? can he resurge? how does he win here in new hampshire where he has to win? the president of emily s list has endorsed hillary clinton and john nicoles the national correspondent with the nation.
hampshire where he has to win? the president of emily s list has endorsed hillary clinton and john nicoles the national correspondent with the nation. i m trying to think the nation is a pretty liberal magazine and i m trying to figure out if there is still hope. your thoughts, john. well, i do think there is still hope that it will be a two-person race. the fact of the matter is bernie sanders and martin o malley got into a very tough race at the start. they got in the race with a real frontrunner who had strong organization and great name recognition. hillary clinton had a rough late summer and early fall and then she hit her mark. there is no question about that. to my view, about what sanders has to think about, and martin o malley, is how did they distinguish themselves in this race? if it is just attacking clinton
after glancing way. but to throw away the issue used by hillary clinton by others, certainly not by to people to her left but by others struck me as an odd sort of jumping over the tennis net saying i m going to make sure you win this game. it didn t seem like the action of a competitor, but a protester who would rather win on the issues. i don t think that bernie sanders thinks of himself as a protest candidate. but i do think what he did there was very different from what we see a lot of in politics. and bernie sanders has said again and again he doesn t like that. he doesn t like the personal back and forth and it has been a signal from the start of his campaign that he was not going to do it. my sense is there was a certain wisdom in it. because the fact of the matter is had he gone on a major attack and made it central to his campaign yeah, but don t john, i m smarter than you on that one. don t try to set up a straw man here. nobody is saying he should have gone on the at
why do you think he just took it off the table? just took it off. because he has been sliding in the polls ever since. thank you, john nicoles from the nation. up next, do republicans want to widen the net or shrink it? could it hurt gop chances next year? this is hardball, the place for politics.