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Bernie Sanders is topping Hillary Clinton by 27 points in New Hampshire - his biggest lead yet - in a poll out Tuesday.

More voters sided with Mrs. Clinton over Mr. Sanders on the issues of gun control and health care, while they said Mr. Sanders would do a better job dealing with Wall Street and reducing the gap between rich and poor.

The two candidates are now going back and forth for the lead in Iowa while Sanders maintains a sizeable lead in his neighboring state, New Hampshire. However, Sanders is well known in New Hampshire after three decades in office in neighboring Vermont.

According to the poll, 36 percent of likely Granite State voters say they have definitely decided who they will vote for in November, while an additional 21 percent are leaning toward a candidate and 43 percent have yet to make a final decision. (Due to rounding, the sum of the averages exceeds 100.) In its polls-only forecast, which doesn't use eactra factors but weights the polls according to methodology and past accuracy, gives Clinton a 66 percent chance to win the primary, with Sanders at 34, well above her RealClearPolitics lead.

Overall, 91% say they have a favorable view of Sanders, while just 2% have an unfavorable opinion.

With less than a month until the presidential primary, a new poll shows Vermont Sen.

The results for both parties are unchanged from the poll NBC News and Survey Monkey released last week.

Sanders led with the most engaging post on Twitter. Just ask Hillary Clinton 7.0, or whatever operating system we're on at this point.

Republicans, including super PACs allied with major candidates, would rather run against Sanders in the fall and are trying to help his insurgent primary challenge to Clinton now, Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement.

Clinton herself has started talking a lot about "electability", the implication being that Sanders doesn't have it.

There hasn't been much empirical evidence either way for the simple reason that very little polling has been done in the mostly southern and heavily African-American states that will begin weighing in once the cheering's over in New Hampshire (there's one state, Nevada, with significant Latino as well as African-American Democratic voters holding a caucus on February 20, a week before SC holds its primary). Sanders also had the highest number of mentions, along with the most likes and retweets, further demonstrating his followers' high engagement with his content.