No more Mrs. Inevitability: Former Bill Clinton pollster Doug Schoen says there is now more than a theoretical chance Hillary ‘may not be the Democratic nominee’
Schoen writes that Clinton’s inevitability will be ‘eviscerated’ if she loses California primary next week
Polls show Clinton and Bernie Sanders close, with 1.5 newly registered Democrats
Sanders could try to push through a rules change at the Democratic convention that would pry away Clinton’s super delegates
Sanders consistently polls stronger than Clinton versus Donald Trump
Pollster floats Biden rescue plan – but admits all are ‘merely possibilities’
By GEOFF EARLE, DEPUTY U.S. POLITICAL EDITOR
DailyMail.com
1 June 2016
Hillary Clinton’s limp to the finish line of the Democratic primary is prompting a prominent former pollster for Bill Clinton to declare the once unthinkable could happen and she could lose the nomination.
‘The inevitability behind Mrs. Clinton’s nomination will be in large measure eviscerated if she loses the June 7 California primary to Bernie Sanders,’ pollster Doug Schoen wrote in the Wall Street Journal late Tuesday. ‘That could well happen.’
Schoen, who launched the firm Penn, Schoen & and Berland along with longtime Clinton pollster and confidante Mark Penn, pointed to public polling to make the case Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders could win in California, which would deal a harsh blow to Clinton. He is also a Fox News contributor.
‘Even a narrow win would give him 250 pledged delegates or more—a significant boost,’ he wrote. ‘California is clearly trending to Mr. Sanders, and the experience in recent open primaries has been that the Vermont senator tends to underperform in pre-election surveys and over-perform on primary and caucus days, thanks to the participation of new registrants and young voters.’
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