Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) addresses hecklers and supporters at the Netroots Nation 2015 Presidential Town Hall in Phoenix, Arizona, July 18, 2015. (Charlie Leight/Getty Images/AFP)
Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is closing the gap in Iowa on front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Democratic race for president, according to a poll.
Clinton leads Sanders, who is Jewish, by a margin of 37 percent to 30 percent among likely Democratic caucusgoers in Iowa, according to the Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics Iowa Poll, the Register reported. Vice President Joe Biden, who has not announced a run for the top spot, garnered 14 percent.
Clinton has lost a third of her Iowa supporters since May, the Register reported.
The Iowa caucus, the first electoral test in the 2016 presidential campaign, will be held Feb. 1.
File: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton visits Em’s Coffee Co. in Independence, Iowa, May 19, 2015. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)
Sanders, an independent who caucuses with Senate Democrats, is attracting more first-time caucus goers than Clinton, according to the poll, and caucus goers genuinely like him, the poll found.
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Earlier this month, Sanders surpassed Clinton for the top spot among New Hampshire Democratic voters, a Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll found. New Hampshire will hold its primary on Feb. 9.
Sanders led Clinton 44-37 percent among the 442 likely Democratic primary voters who responded to the New Hampshire survey.
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