Bernie Sanders leads Hillary Clinton by 7 points in New Hampshire

New Hampshire is feeling the Bern. The latest survey from Public Policy Polling shows Bernie Sanders leading the 2016 Democratic field in the Granite State, with 42 percent to Hillary Clinton's 35 percent. (Jim Webb, ever an afterthought, trails them both at 6 percent.)

That's a massive shift in the socialist senator's favor since PPP last took the temperature of this key primary state in April. Back then, Clinton seemed to be crushing everyone.

The new PPP survey is in line with a Franklin Pierce University/Boston Herald poll from earlier this month that also showed Sanders with a seven-point lead over Clinton in New Hampshire.

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Sanders is the most popular candidate on either side of the political field in New Hampshire, where only 12 percent of those polled held a negative opinion of him. The New Yorker has a hypothesis: "Sanders shows the kids what's possible, even if, strictly speaking, it's not feasible yet."