Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders scoops TIME Person of the Year readers’ poll

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has received a vote of confidence with the primary race in full swing. He has won an online readers’ poll for the TIME Person of the Year, coming streets ahead of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

The Senator for Vermont managed to garner 10 percent of all the votes, a figure that put him way ahead of second-placed Malala Yousafzai with 5.2 percent, who after being shot by the Taliban in Pakistan, became an education activist.

Sanders also proved way more popular that Obama (3.5 percent), his rival for the Democratic Party’s nomination Hillary Clinton (1.4 percent) and Republican Donald Trump (1.8 percent) .... https://www.rt.com/usa