Hillary Clinton Leads in New Hampshire by Historic Margin
Hillary Clinton, former U.S. secretary of state, gestures before speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado, U.S., on Monday, June 30, 2014. The
Photographer: Matthew Staver/BloombergHillary Clinton holds a historic lead in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, although a shift in opinion about the party's brand could be a drag on her candidacy in the general election.
Sixty-two percent of likely Democratic voters in the early primary state said they support Clinton in a new Bloomberg Politics/Saint Anselm New Hampshire Poll of likely primary voters conducted by Purple Insights. It's an advantage that puts her in elite company: Only former Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy in 1980 and former Vice President Al Gore in 2000 have broken the 50 percent mark more than six months before the primary. “Clinton's numbers are so strong that it seems inconceivable that she could have any serious challenger,” said Neil Levesque, executive director of the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College.