Posted on 12/17/2014 11:16:27 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
* Hillary Rodham Clinton has the support of half of American voters
* More than 80 per cent of Democratic voters say they would back her
* In contrast only 31 per cent of U.S. voters would back Jeb Bush
* Republican Bush announced he is 'actively exploring' running yesterday
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the early frontrunner in the 2016 presidential election, a poll has said.
Although the former Secretary of State has yet to announce her candidacy, 50 per cent of American voters have said they can see themselves supporting her if she runs.
Mrs Clinton, 67, has said she will make her decision on whether or not to run for the White House 2016 early next year.
The poll found that half of voters support another Clinton president, while 48 per cent oppose it.
Despite only a small margin of support, hers is significantly stronger than that of any rumoured Republican nominees.
One reason for this could be that Ms Clinton, a former first lady and New York senator is viewed as the likely Democratic nominee if she runs with few other candidates seen as competition.
This becomes clear when polling only Democratic voters, where 82 per cent said they could see themselves supporting her if she runs, and only 15 per cent saying they cannot.
One likely Republican opponent Jeb Bush, who announced that he is 'actively exploring' running for President 2016, only has a 31 per cent support, the poll by NBC News/Wall Street Journal said....
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Split the country in two...I can’t take this crap anymore! 8 fricking years of Obama and now half the country wants this Piece of Crap in the White House for eight more?????
Don’t forget President Giuliani.
Elizabeth Warren will be the Dem candidate, and she will win for more or less the same reasons that Obama won.
At least that is my fear.
She has more pep in her step than Hillary, and has an attractive message to nominally conservative but apolitical chunk of middle America, and to the fashionable naive liberal socially conscious chunk that votes progressively, and of course to the hard core left which understands what they are voting for.
I don’t believe the poll. I know that Hillary has a large cadre of rabid worshipers. But it is not half the population of the Country and no Americans support Hillary.
I was being a SA .....Hillary said some lie about her being named after him because he climbed Everest but she was born three years before he did it ....
I know. I was also being a smart arse, so there! :p
Thribbit! :)
I need to open up a polling firm.
Steady work producing irrelevant polls when all sense would say avoid paying me for such, and I can get it wrong in the end and still get work when all sense would say not to keep hiring me!
It’s good work, if you can get it.
A poll of adults. Probably not even citizens.
-PJ
The “blow of FAT”?!?!?
Well, that’s one way to put it...
Looks like she’s smuggling a boatload of bowling balls under that tent.
Yes this early on the polls are all about name recognition. That’s about it.
Don’t forget POT!!
The low info voters lack the intellectual ability to open a door without directions...
Hillary folds like a cheap crusty pantsuit in the first debate. She has literally never debated anyone other than progressives or weak opponents.
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