holding a commanding lead among democrats but some cracks may be starting to show. a new cnn-orc poll shows her numbers have dipped below 47%. it s dropped nine percentage points from just last month. bernie sanders has gained ten points and is narrowing the gap separating the two. and when asked about a president bernie sanders, 31% thought he would do a better job than hillary clinton would. 37% thought he would be worse than hillary clinton and a large percentage, 29% thought there would be no difference at all head to head. but look at the contest with donald trump showing that race tightening with them holding a six-point lead over the billionaire. one issue that could be holding clinton back, the scandal over
on christmas, a fund-raising report showed sink with more than $1 million in the bank, her opponent, david jolly, had less than $150,000. in late january, an internal dccc poll showed her leading by four points overall, had a double-digit lead among independent voters. the poll said sink shows strong crossover support and advantages among key voting blocs. but jolly s attacks, or more importantly, the outside groups attacks, it wasn t enough to prevent the race tightening. steve israel downplayed her chances citing the double-digit advantage and pointing out special elections are exactly that, special. to discuss where things go from here, chairman of the dccc steve israel. congressman, good morning to you, sir. good morning. thanks for having me on. you got it. i know what you guys are saying about the makeup of the electorate in florida, 13, and that a lot shouldn t be read into it, but the fact of the matter is, there are a lot of democratic voters in the 13th
and that s what s now going on in florida and virginia. mark? jim rutenberg, governor romney back full-time candidate in florida. the president spending at least today being fema commander in chief. do you think the president s going to stay off campaigning, or do you think he ll go back tomorrow, and does it matter? i think he s going to be out campaigning pretty quickly. i think he s in a tricky situation now where he s going to start looking like he s being overtly political and posturing a little bit. i don t think he s there yet, but i think that could come. harold ford? chuck, back to you for one moment. we showed a poll, mika and joe showed a poll where michigan seems to be tightening where the number i made the point 48% or higher, 48% to 50%, 50% is fantastic, but the president will assume he can jump to 50%, and any incumbent, with the president dropping to 47.7%, the race tightening in michigan, how do you read those numbers? is it real there, do you think?
future. reserved $300 thousand now of the time in maine. maybe that s for that maine electoral vote, maybe new hampshire. but, you know, they want to mess around and they have the money. remember in maine the statal indicates electoral votes by congressional district and if there is one that could steal it would be that second. the democratic super pac majority pac made a half million dollar buy on behalf of bob casey. he held a big lead. polls have shown that race tightening. casey always ahead. democrats swear behind the scenes casey has the has his path and that tom smith gathered the republican vote. we will see. it also means they have extra money to spend. just as romney is trying to move to the middol domestic policy, foreign policy, social issues, we have a new reminder of how much the conservative bent of the republican party can be a drag on romney s campaign.
about what the white house really knew about the attack in those early days. with the new report over the weekend with possible talks between the u.s. and iran over the nuclear program romney will likely question the president s support over israel. he has a different vision of the world. part of the failures this president has had is a failure to outline broad coagoals, real goals a real view of what america s presidency will be. just like for much of the campaign we haven t gotten his plan for the future. this as poll after poll shows this race tightening in the last several days. night by night with the large family we have seen romney move out to the 51/45 national average. with national voters it is closer to being even. there are a lot of colors to