There are some leftists in the Democratic Party that have made up their minds that they just don't like Hillary Clinton. They believe she is not liberal enough. They tried to get Elizabeth Warren to run against her, but Warren has made it clear that she's not going to run -- at least not in 2016.
Then Bernie Sanders entered the race, and some immediately jumped on his bandwagon. They finally had what they considered a real progressive running against Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately for these Hillary-haters, it just hasn't been enough.
Bernie's constituency is liberals, and he must get the support, not just of some of them, but almost all of them to have a chance against Hillary Clinton. But that just isn't happening. A new poll shows he is getting only about 31% support among liberals in the party -- less than a third. Meanwhile Hillary Clinton is still getting the support of a significant majority of liberals -- about 61%.
It seems that most liberals in the party (including me) just don't buy the argument that Clinton is not liberal enough and someone else is needed. They know that Clinton is more liberal than either of the last two Democratic presidents (Barack Obama and Bill Clinton), and they know she is the best chance Democrats have to keep an extremist Republican out of the White House.
The charts above were made from a new YouGov Poll done between May 2nd and 4th of a random national sample of 1,000 adults, with about a 4 point margin of error.
