… It’s hard to see how the Clinton forces can accommodate Sanders’s demands for breaking up the big banks, free college tuition and staying out of Syria.
Yet if she is the Democratic nominee, she’ll need the Sanders followers in the autumn. She would be making a mistake to take them for granted and rely on Trump’s unpopularity. In the latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll voters view him unfavorably, 65 percent to 24 percent, the highest negatives for a national political figure that the pollster Peter Hart has ever seen.
If it weren’t for Trump, however, the story would be about Clinton’s negatives. In the same survey she was viewed unfavorably, 56 percent to 32 percent. She does poorly among some of Sanders’s core supporters, young people and independents. CONT.
Albert R. Hunt, Bloomberg View