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Fifty-one percent
of 1,003 Democrats polled in the online survey said they would
vote for Clinton in the 2016 presidential primaries, compared
with 27 percent who said they would back her main rival, Senator
Bernie Sanders of Vermont.
Forty-one percent backed Clinton and 27 percent favored Sanders
in the Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted on Oct. 9. Support for Vice
President Joe Biden among Democrats dropped 6 percentage points
to 13 percent from 10 days ago.
Analysts widely hailed Clinton, 67, as turning in a nimble
performance at the debate last Tuesday, easing fears among some
Democrats that the controversy over her use of a private email
server while secretary of state was torpedoing her bid to
represent the party in the November 2016 election.
Clinton's showing in the Oct. 13 debate in Las Vegas that
brought together five declared Democratic candidates also fired
a warning shot at Biden, 72, who is considering a late
presidential run.
Thirty-six percent of voters said Clinton did the best job in
the debate aired on CNN, regardless of which candidate they
support, while 26 percent named Sanders as the winner.
Among Democrats, Clinton's debate win was more pronounced.
Fifty-two percent of 865 Democrats who watched the event
believed she did the best job, compared with 29 percent who
thought Sanders was the top performer.
The precision of Reuters/Ipsos online polls is measured using a
credibility interval. In this case, the poll has a credibility
interval of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points for all
respondents and plus or minus 3.5 percentage points for all
Democrats.
It also has a credibility interval of plus or minus 2.5
percentage points for all respondents who watched the debate,
and plus or minus 3.8 percentage points for Democrats who
watched the debate.
(Reporting by Alistair Bell; Editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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