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'Socialist' seen as most unpopular quality in presidential candidate, poll finds
A new poll by NBC News/Wall Street Journal indicates that 67 percent of voters are "very uncomfortable" with having a presidential candidate who is a socialist, despite the Democratic party's front-runner, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., declaring himself as such.
Despite this, the liberal candidate who has proposed a progressive legislative agenda as part of his campaign's bid for the White House, including "Medicare-for-All" and free college tuition, narrowly clinched the first two early-voting states for the season in both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and is leading in most national polls.
Sanders isn't the only candidate dubbed a socialist though; Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-N.H., who shares many of the same policy stances as Sanders, has also been dubbed the same at times.
A new poll by NBC News/Wall Street Journal indicates that 67 percent of voters are "very uncomfortable" with having a presidential candidate who is a socialist, despite the Democratic party's front-runner, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., declaring himself as such.
Despite this, the liberal candidate who has proposed a progressive legislative agenda as part of his campaign's bid for the White House, including "Medicare-for-All" and free college tuition, narrowly clinched the first two early-voting states for the season in both the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary and is leading in most national polls.
Sanders isn't the only candidate dubbed a socialist though; Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-N.H., who shares many of the same policy stances as Sanders, has also been dubbed the same at times.
