There are now five candidates in the Democratic race for the party's nomination (Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Lincoln Chafee, Mark O'Malley, and Jim Webb) -- and some say Joe Biden is still considering becoming a candidate. Chafee, O'Malley, and Webb have been struggling to find any support at all, while Sanders seems to be doing fairly well among the party's most liberal members.
But most Democrats (93%) remain convinced that when the convention arrives next summer, Hillary Clinton will be their party's nominee. I believe it will stay that way, unless and until, one of the other candidates can convince Democrats they can beat the GOP's nominee -- and so far, none of them has been able to do that.
This chart was made from a new Rasmussen Poll -- done on July 2nd and 5th of a random national sample of 1,000 likely Democratic voters, and has a 3 point margin of error.
I tend to think the only way Clinton doesn't get the nomination is if there is some major scandal -- like it turns out she did kill Vince Foster. And if that happens, I suspect that Sanders still doesn't win. I suspect at that point Biden would jump in the race and clean up. Otherwise, I don't really see him doing it.
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