Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton, 44-37 percent, in New Hampshire

For the first time in the 2015-2016 Democratic presidential primary campaign, independent Vermont socialist U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton in a public opinion poll, 44-37 percent. The survey was conducted by Franklin Pierce/and the Boston Herald. Vice President Joe Biden got 9 percent support in the test primary match-up. The other announced Democrats in the race, former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee and former Virginia Gov. Jim Webb, barely register at 1 percent or below. The survey is…