on december 3, 2015, a quinnipiac university poll found sanders to be the democratic candidate more likely to win the presidential election against top republican candidates such as donald trump, jeb bush, marco rubio, ted cruz and ben carson. on december 4, 2015, after online voting ended, votes showed that sanders was in first place to become "time's" 2015 person of the year. he had 10.4% of votes compared to second place holder malala yousafzai's 5.3%. on december 7, "time" announced that sanders won the reader's poll of the magazine, but he would not be person of the year. on december 9, poll numbers showed that sanders was leading clinton in the new hampshire polls by 50% to 40%. the university also showed clinton was winning with 61% to sanders's 30% of the national poll.