Clinton lead over Sanders shrinking in California, poll shows

The San Francisco Chronicle reports:

Hillary Clinton is clinging to a narrow lead over Bernie Sanders in the June 7 Democratic primary, with a growing number of independent voters poised to decide the final result, a new poll by the Public Policy Institute of California shows.

Clinton holds a 46 to 44 percent edge over Sanders among likely primary voters, who include not only Democrats but independent voters who choose to cast ballots in that primary. Among Democrats alone, Clinton leads, 49 to 41 percent.

Vermont Sen. Sanders, who in the past couple of weeks has been pulling in crowds of enthusiastic supporters to rallies across the state, has trimmed the gap between the two Democrats from the 48-to-41 percent margin found in the institute’s March survey.

“The election has gotten very close,” said Mark Baldassare, the institute’s CEO and the poll’s director. “The addition of independent voters adds a degree of uncertainty to the race.”

On the Republican side of the primary, two-thirds of the GOP voters said they would back businessman Donald Trump, who is virtually guaranteed the party’s presidential nomination. Another 26 percent say they will vote for one of the other four Republicans on the primary ballot, although all of those candidates have dropped out of the presidential race.

Comrade Sanders shows he's ready for California.