Hillary Clinton has lost some ground in personal favorability this year, but continues to outpace both Barack Obama and, by a wide margin, Marco Rubio – like Clinton, a possible successor to Obama – in this basic measure of public popularity. [cont.] Greg Holyk, ABC News Read more »
Hillary Clinton Favorability Slips Slightly
Hillary Clinton’s favorability rating fell slightly in June to 58%, from 64% in April. That is the first sub-60% rating Americans have given her since 2008. Clinton’s unfavorable rating now stands at 39%, up from 31% in April. [cont.] Andrew Dugan, Gallup Read more »
Clinton Slips in Poll After Benghazi Hits, Christie’s Up
Hillary Clinton hasn’t decided whether she’ll run for president in 2016, a status that doesn’t matter to the brewing class of potential Republican candidates already running against her. And, in the pre-campaign posturing, her prospective opponents are having some impact. Clinton’s political standing is declining after months of criticism for […] Read more »
A Predictable Decline in Hillary Clinton’s Popularity
… A Quinnipiac University poll released on Friday found Mrs. Clinton’s favorability rating declining to 52 percent, from 61 percent in February. The decrease was considerably more modest in a CNN poll released earlier this month, with Mrs. Clinton’s favorability rating decreasing to 61 percent from 63 percent in March. […] Read more »
A Hillary Clinton 2016 Landslide? Don’t Count On It
Five years ago, Hillary Clinton’s “electability” as a presidential candidate was debatable. Today, it is uncontested. Democratic partisans think she will paint the electoral map blue in 2016. … But Clinton, though a very formidable candidate, is not preordained to win in an Eisehower-esque landslide: A different read of the […] Read more »
Hillary Clinton remains teflon despite Benghazi
Hillary Clinton continues to get heavily positive reviews for her work as secretary of state in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, even after renewed Republican allegations of an Obama administration related to the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, last fall. [cont.] Scott Clement, Washington Post Recent polls: Hillary […] Read more »