CNN: ..Sanders, who trails Clinton in most polls by around 50%, is the longest of long-shot candidates as his politics sits well to the left of the mainstream of the Democratic Party, let alone most of the rest of American voters.
But despite that, polls show that assuming Vice President Joe Biden, and liberal favorite Elizabeth Warren don’t take Clinton on, Sanders is now currently the best-placed Democrat to serve as an alternative to the former secretary of state.
And even if he is not able to threaten Clinton’s dominance, he may help shape the contours of the Democratic race for president and possibly pull Clinton away from the political center ground that she prefers to occupy…. (more)
