Bernie Sanders might be trailing Hillary Clinton, but he is kicking ass when compared to some GOP challengers.

Don't count me out.

The Washington Post has a couple of graphics that I found interesting.

Here is the first:

As you can see on this chart Bernie Sanders barely breaks the top ten.

However as you can also see NOBODY even comes close to overtaking Hillary at this point, so whether it be second, third, fourth, or even tenth place everybody is eating mouthfuls of Hillary's dust.

But when you compare the actual voters who support Sanders to the actual voters who support some of the other GOP presidential hopefuls our resident democratic socialist does much better than one might expect.

As you can see Sanders actually has more voter support than Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal, Carly Fiorina, John Kasich, and Rick Santorum combined.

Here is how the Washington Post explained this: 

Sanders won't be the Democratic nominee. And neither Fiorina, Kasich nor Graham are likely to be the GOP nominee. Among Americans at large, though, Sanders has a lot more supporters than any number of the often-talked-about Republicans.

Which kind of tells me that if there were no Hillary Clinton in this race, or say Jeb Bush, that Bernie Sanders might not be quite the long shot that everybody seems  to assume he will be.