Posted on 05/17/2007 6:22:30 AM PDT by John Cena
Senator and Former First Lady Hillary Clinton (D) leads actor and former U.S. Senator Fred Thompson (R) by three percentage points in the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. Clinton attracts 47% while Thompson earns support from 44% (see crosstabs).
That’s a four-point improvement for Clinton from a month ago. In our April survey of this match-up, the gruff-voiced star of "Law and Order" had a one-point edge, 44% to 43%.
Clinton also enjoys a three-point lead over former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (47% to 44%). That's an improvement for Romney who trailed Clinton by nine in March. Romney has proven to be a surprisingly effective fundraiser and is getting better known to voters these days. But only 37% view him favorably, while 38% view him unfavorably.
Fred Thompson has similar favorables to Romney—39%. However, a large number of potential voters don’t yet venture an opinion on him. Just 27% view the TV star unfavorably at this time. NBC recently ordered up another season of "Law and Order," but creator Dick Wolf says he hasn't been told yet whether Senator Thompson will continue to star in it.
In the tightening race for the GOP presidential nomination, fourth-ranked Romney continues to trail Thompson, who jumped into third place as soon as Rasmussen Reports started adding his name to our surveys of the primary contest.
Hillary Clinton's favorable rating remains more or less balanced by her unfavorable rating: 50% view her favorably, 49% unfavorably. Many more have a Very Unfavorable (35%) than Very Favorable (23%) view. Her favorable ratings have been pretty stable over the last several months.
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This is merely a vote between which liberal you prefer and when faced with two "wanna-be-Republican President" liberals and the real McCoy, liberals choose the real McCoy.
3-4-5 points is always called margin of error, until Mrs Bill Clinton now has the “lead.” This is less important than American Idol polling.
Please tell me when you are going to take polls seriously? I know last year people were saying the same thing in October and beginning November. Never believe polls.....yawn. What about instead of ignoring them, we do something about it and change the polls to a positive. The candidates themselves I hope take them more seriously. I know Bush Sr., never believed polls either and that got him very far....lol.
LOL!
“Rasmussen: Clinton Leads Both Thompson and Romney by Three Points -— No surprise here as they are ALL LIBERALS!!!!!”
Where do you get that Fred Thompson is a liberal?
Responding to this sort of thing is a refreshing change from the exhausting FairTax vs. Flat Tax debate I’ve been involved in on another thread.
What scares me is the number of people in this country that would even vote for her thighness. Just what in the heck is going on around here?
Hey, she’s only leading a guy who has not even announced he’s running by 3 percentage points?
C’mon folks. Shout and dance a little.
The margin of error is =/- 4 — don’t panic.
I agree. I find that there are plenty of libs here in my office in S.F. who won’t vote for Hillary.
I’m still thinking the Gore-acle will be announcing within the next six months and the Dems will go wild. I won’t vote for him, but watching the Hildebeest deflate will be worth the price of admission on that one.
” agree. I find that there are plenty of libs here in my office in S.F. who won’t vote for Hillary.
I’m still thinking the Gore-acle will be announcing within the next six months and the Dems will go wild. I won’t vote for him, but watching the Hildebeest deflate will be worth the price of admission on that one.”
I still doubt she’ll actually enter the primaries. She sees the same polling data everybody else does. She can’t win a national election any more than Geraldine Ferraro could have back in the day, except Ferraro is more liked...which in itself is damning of Senator Clinton’s chances.
She’s going to make a decision in the next few months. The decision isn’t what the talking heads think.
The decision is “Is it better to run and lose - becoming the female version of Dukakis or John Kerry, or drop out for some vague excuse, and remain ‘a potential contender’ forever, and a kingmaker to boot in the DNC?
I think in the end it will be the latter. Because if she enters and doesn’t win her own party’s nomination...she and the Clintonista’s are done forever more in national politics as a unified ‘force’.
We’ll see.
Go Mitt (or Fred)!
If Hillary is the Democrat nominee, the Dems have few campaign strategies available to them to overcome such dismal approval numbers. They must go for character assassination of the Republican opponent and it will require cooperation of co-conspirators in the MSM.
The Republican candidate must start with big advantages in leadership ability and character to still come out ahead after the Dem slime machine and media do their worst.
I'm excited with the gain of 6% by Romney against Clinton in just two months for a candidate with such low name recognition before the first debate on 5/3/07. The jump to the lead in NH and IA after two debates and the CBS 60 Minutes interview is very encouraging. Romney has a lot of room to grow in the polls with more media exposure in debates.
If Hillary gets their nomination, we will win as long as we don’t run Newt.
Cute!!!
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