Hillary Clinton leads Bernie Sanders 54%-24% in Florida, UNF poll shows

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A new University of North Florida statewide poll of likely Democratic primary voters reveals that if the Florida Democratic Presidential Primary were held today, 54.4 percent would vote for Hillary Clinton, while Bernie Sanders trails with 24.2 percent.

It’s the second consecutive poll released within the past few days to show a wide Clinton lead. A Quinnipiac survey released on Friday showed Clinton up, 59 percent to 33 percent.

For African-American likely Democratic primary voters, Clinton has a sizeable lead over Sanders with 66.5 percent to 11.9 percent. Among women, Clinton also holds a large lead over Sanders, 58.2 percent to 20.3 percent.

When asked what’s the most important problem the U.S. faces now, 30.5 percent of likely Democratic primary voters think it’s the economy, jobs or unemployment. For 14.5 percent of respondents, health care is the most important problem, while 12.6 percent selected terrorism, and another 11.5 percent chose education

The poll was conducted from Feb. 22, through Saturday, and included 685 adult registered Democrat likely voters in the state of Florida, with a margin of sampling error of +/- 3.74 percent.

Mitch Perry

Mitch Perry has been a reporter with Extensive Enterprises since November of 2014. Previously, he served five years as political editor of the alternative newsweekly Creative Loafing. Mitch also was assistant news director with WMNF 88.5 FM in Tampa from 2000-2009, and currently hosts MidPoint, a weekly talk show, on WMNF on Thursday afternoons. He began his reporting career at KPFA radio in Berkeley and is a San Francisco native who has lived in Tampa since 2000. Mitch can be reached at [email protected].



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