HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) – With nearly eight months to go before the November 3 General Election, the political passions are heating up nationwide.
More and more eyes are on South Carolina, where former Vice President Joe Biden has 36-percent support in a new Monmouth University poll ahead of Saturday’s Democratic Presidential Primary. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, coming off of last week’s strong showing in Nevada, is next at 16-percent, and businessman Tom Steyer is the only other candidate in double figures at 15-percent.
Hope College political science professor David Ryden is getting excited. “I’ve been wanting to put off talking too much or devoting too much attention to presidential politics, for it can be exhausting,” he admitted during a Thursday appearance on “WHTC Talk of the Town,” “but I’m getting interested, and people ought to be. If you think politics is boring, you’re not paying attention.”
Around half of the available Democratic convention delegates are up for grabs on Super Tuesday, with Michigan’s Presidential Preference Primary set for March 10th.
