If The Election Were Held Today, Hillary Clinton Would Win In Biggest Blowout Since Eisenhower

Hillary Clinton’s campaign for President is in massive trouble, according to nearly every major news media outlet on either side of the political aisle. Bernie Sanders is now the democratic party frontrunner instead, according to half those outlets. Joe Biden is going to have to jump into the race to save the democrats because Hillary is no longer electable, according to the other half. The trouble with those narratives: the facts say the precise opposite. In fact, the polls say that if voting were held today, Hillary Clinton would win in a landslide.

Currently, Clinton is leading the democratic primary in either 49 out of 50 states, or in all 50 states, depending on which New Hampshire polls you prefer. In the other early primary state of Iowa, Clinton currently leads the second-place democrat by twenty-seven points, having the support of more than twice as many democratic voters as her closest opponent. Her lead in another primary state, South Carolina, is fifty-seven points. And she leads in every other state as well. So while the primary voting is still several months off, if the democratic primary were held today, Hillary Clinton would win in such a massive electoral blowout that it’s typically only seen for incumbent Presidents who are running for reelection unopposed. So how about the general election?

If the general election were held between Hillary Clinton and current republican frontrunner Donald Trump, Clinton would win by double digits, marking the biggest popular vote differential in a United States Presidential election since Dwight Eisenhower in 1952. Clinton would also win handily over any of the other republican candidates currently running. Even as the media talk continues of how her campaign is in trouble, popular sentiment reflected by the numbers says that she’s still the most popular Presidential candidate in modern history.