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   Kentucky, Oregon Primaries: Can Clinton Reverse Setbacks Against Sanders?

   by Ken Bredemeier

   Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vermont Senator
   Bernie Sanders face off in two more Democratic state presidential
   nominating contests Tuesday, in coal-producing Kentucky and Pacific
   coastal Oregon.

   Pre-election surveys have been scant in both states, leaving analysts
   guessing whether Clinton can reverse recent setbacks against Sanders
   and move ever closer to clinching the Democratic presidential
   nomination. Clinton, seeking to become the first female U.S. president,
   holds a significant lead over Sanders in the race to claim a majority
   of delegates to the party's July national nominating convention.

   Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, has acknowledged he has
   only a narrow path to win the nomination over Clinton. But he has
   defeated her in 19 state nominating contests. National surveys show him
   faring better than she does against the presumptive Republican nominee,
   billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump, although both hold an
   advantage. Sanders has vowed to stay in the race against Clinton
   through the last state nominating contests in early June.

   ''Edge over Trump
   An [1]NBC News/Survey Monkey poll Tuesday showed Clinton with a narrow
   national edge over Trump, 48 to 45 percent, down from a five-point
   margin a week ago. An average of several polls shows Clinton with about
   a six-point lead on Trump six months ahead of the November national
   election, with Sanders ahead by 13 percentage points over Trump, a
   one-time television reality show host who has never held elective
   office.

   The NBC News poll shows a wide gender gap in a prospective
   Clinton-Trump matchup, with women favoring her by a 15-point margin and
   men favoring him by 11 points. Black and Hispanic voters favor her by
   wide margins, with whites preferring Trump. Those with college degrees
   favor Clinton by seven points, while those with higher incomes prefer
   Trump.

   At her campaign rallies, Clinton has aimed her attacks at Trump,
   calling him unfit to be the country's commander-in-chief. But she has
   also focused on winning Kentucky, trying to defeat Sanders in another
   state with a largely white population similar to those where Sanders'
   upstart candidacy has fared well in the months-long campaign.

   West Virginia
   Clinton lost badly to Sanders in neighboring West Virginia, a
   coal-producing state like Kentucky. Clinton, a supporter of emerging
   green energy technology, has struggled to explain a comment she made in
   March that as president she would expect to "put a lot of coal
   companies and coal miners out of business."

   She has subsequently said she misspoke, telling Kentucky voters, "We
   can't and must not walk away" from miners. She staged seven rallies in
   Kentucky over the last two days in the lead-up to the voting.

   Oregon voters have had a head start in balloting, with the state's
   unusual three-week vote-by-mail system. Voters have until early Tuesday
   evening to turn in their ballots.

   Trump is expected to easily win the Oregon Republican primary. His last
   challengers dropped out of the race against him in early May. Kentucky
   Republicans voted in March, with Trump winning.
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References

   1. http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/hillary-clinton-holds-slim-national-lead-over-donald-trump-poll-n574901
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