I assume you were downvoted because people thought you were making a snide remark or joke. Sanders polling better against Trump is supposedly[1] a fact, and has been repeated often. Not sure why people would jump to downvoting you for something they didn't really know much about.
1: "Supposedly" because the polls I just looked up seemed to be nearly identical for Sanders or Clinton vs Trump, with Democrats at ~50% and Trump at ~38%.
While this isn't polling as such, I've found the FiveThirtyEight Facebook map of candidates to be intriguing. When you drop out the other candidates, Trump vs Sanders is still a competition as you'd expect, but Trump vs Clinton... she barely shows up. Her number of Likes is surprisingly low.
I'd usually ignore Facebook likes, and FiveThirtyEight insists it's for fun as well. However, their throwaway comment "If Facebook likes were votes... Donald Trump [would] garner more support than Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio combined" has actually proven to be accurate.
kbenson|10 years ago
1: "Supposedly" because the polls I just looked up seemed to be nearly identical for Sanders or Clinton vs Trump, with Democrats at ~50% and Trump at ~38%.
michaelmrose|10 years ago
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/ge...
spread is an average of clinton +10% vs sanders at +16%
SyneRyder|10 years ago
http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/facebook-primary/
I'd usually ignore Facebook likes, and FiveThirtyEight insists it's for fun as well. However, their throwaway comment "If Facebook likes were votes... Donald Trump [would] garner more support than Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio combined" has actually proven to be accurate.