--- title: New Hampshire Poll Has Sanders Leading Clinton By 20 Points description: Bernie Sanders maintains a significant double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire canonical: https://time.com/4208556/sanders-clinton-poll-new-hampshire/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-04T21:14:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:46:35.617Z article:section: Politics og:title: Poll: Sanders Leads Clinton By 20 Points in New Hampshire og:description: Clinton faces an uphill battle og:url: https://time.com/4208556/sanders-clinton-poll-new-hampshire/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt042c40c3a21ebe9a/69887c36524fc04c06df69b3/bernie-hillary-new-hampshire-polls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: bernie-hillary-new-hampshire-polls og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Poll: Sanders Leads Clinton By 20 Points in New Hampshire twitter:description: Clinton faces an uphill battle twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt042c40c3a21ebe9a/69887c36524fc04c06df69b3/bernie-hillary-new-hampshire-polls.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll: Sanders Leads Clinton By 20 Points in New Hampshire > Sponsored content. 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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a CNN and the New Hampshire Democratic Party hosted Democratic Presidential Town Hall at the Derry Opera House on February 3, 2016 in Derry, New Hampshire. Democratic Presidential candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) speaks during a CNN and the New Hampshire Democratic Party hosted Democratic Presidential Town Hall at the Derry Opera House on February 3, 2016 in Derry, New Hampshire. Joe Raedle—2016 Getty Images by [Mark Murray / NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## Mark Murray / NBC News Feb 4, 2016 9:14 PM UTC (PORTSMOUTH, NH)—Bernie Sanders maintains a significant double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, according to an NBC News/Wall Street/Marist poll conducted after Clinton’s narrow apparent win in Monday’s Iowa caucuses. Sanders gets the support of 58 percent of likely Democratic primary voters, while Clinton gets 38 percent — essentially unchanged from last week’s NBC/WSJ/Marist poll, which showed Sanders ahead by a 57 percent-to-38 percent margin in the Granite State. “So far in New Hampshire, it’s all Sanders as Clinton faces an uphill fight,” says pollster Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. 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