New Mass. Poll Shows Sanders, Clinton Cream Trump in Hypothetical Head-to-Head

Boston, MA - Despite a commanding win among Republican voters in this year's primary, a poll out this week shows Massachusetts could deliver a record defeat to Donald Trump, should he face either Democratic candidate in this fall's general election.

Likely nominee Hillary Clinton trumped the Donald by a commanding 36 points in Monday's Western New England University Polling Institute survey. In the same poll, Clinton's Democratic competitor Bernie Sanders wallops the New York businessman by 47 points.

The university's phone survey from April 1-10 of nearly 500 voters statewide found:

• Clinton-Trump: 62-26%
• Clinton-Cruz: 63-30%
• Sanders-Trump: 70-23%
• Sanders-Cruz: 71-24%

No surprise to see the Dems beating out both GOP candidates in a Massachusetts general election, but a glance into history shows even a 36-point defeat would surpass previous records, according to MassInc Poling's Steve Koczela.

Another interesting finding from the WNEU poll: although Clinton took the state's primary contest earlier this year, voters are now more favorable toward Sanders and less favorable toward her than in previous polls.

More on the poll results and methodology here.