Poll: Clinton Winning Over State's Democratic Voters

Image: Hillary Clinton, the former U.S. secretary of state, won the lion’s share of votes for president in a recent poll of Maryland’s Democratic voters (Hillary Clinton campaign).

Despite serving as governor of Maryland for eight years, a new poll shows that Martin O’Malley’s campaign for president has barely gained traction among the state’s Democratic voters.

Only 2 percent of the 300 voters queried in the poll, conducted by Goucher College, would pick O’Malley for the party’s nomination for president, WBAL-TV Channel 11 reported. Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state, would win 43 percent of the vote in Maryland if the primary were held today, according to the poll.

Vice President Joe Biden came in second with 23 percent of the vote, even though he has not entered the presidential race. And Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders won 17 percent.

The poll was conducted from Sept. 26 to Thursday, Sept. 1, by the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center at Goucher College, a small liberal arts school in Towson. To see the full results, click here.