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Gallup Poll - New Yorkers Give Hillary Clinton Green Light to Seek White House
Gallup Poll ^ | November 10, 2006

Posted on 11/10/2006 5:06:29 PM PST by HAL9000

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PRINCETON, NJ -- With a resounding victory behind her -- re-elected to her U.S. Senate seat by a 67% to 31% margin -- there is now tremendous political pressure on New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to make known her previously guarded intentions in the 2008 presidential race.

If Clinton does announce a run for president, it will be with the blessing of her constituents. A new Gallup Panel survey of 840 New York residents, aged 18 and older, conducted just before the election, finds that New Yorkers returned the former first lady to office not only believing she will seek, but will also win, the Democratic nomination for president in 2008. Only a minority of New Yorkers would object to her running for president. Perhaps most encouraging for Clinton is that there is no significant call among her constituents for her to step down as senator if she does campaign for president.

Although it is common for an elected official to seek the presidency while remaining in office, there has been much political debate about how New Yorkers would react to the announcement of a Clinton presidential run so soon after she was re-elected to a second term as their senator. However, it appears there is little need for Clinton to be concerned. Almost 6 in 10 New Yorkers say they are fine with her keeping her Senate seat while she campaigns for president.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: hillary; hillary2008; hillaryclinton; presidenthillary; presidentrodham
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To: ReignOfError
The results aren't really surprising.

This is a special case because Bill Clinton promised on television in 1990 that, if re-elected, he would serve his full four-year term as governor of Arkansas. Of course, he broke that promise and started campaigning for president a year later. Clinton basically abandoned Arkansas during his presidential campaign, leading to a budget crisis and other problems. He only returned when he needed a hideout in the mansion, away from reporters seeking comment on the Gennifer Flowers affair. Unfortunately, the New York GOP failed to capitalize on that earlier example of Clinton treachery.

21 posted on 11/10/2006 6:34:27 PM PST by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: mewzilla

This is just a perception but it seems to me that this was one of the least reported races in the nation. People I rarely heard of got way more coverage by losing than her victory did.


22 posted on 11/10/2006 6:38:49 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: mewzilla
In 2000, Hillie received 3,438,999 votes. In 2006, Hillie got 2,811,981.

Bigger turnout in a presidential election year
23 posted on 11/10/2006 6:52:25 PM PST by uncbob
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To: HAL9000

Green light?
Green light??

WATCHHOUT!! Here comes a semi truck....
(shhh, quiet and watch the splat)




24 posted on 11/10/2006 6:54:11 PM PST by GVNR
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To: HAL9000

The majority of people in New York (or at least among those surveyed) are less intelligent than I had previously thought.


25 posted on 11/10/2006 6:55:53 PM PST by meyer (Kerry - the voice of true democRAT feelings. Vote them out!)
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To: HAL9000
New Yorkers returned the former first lady to office not only believing she will seek, but will also win, the Democratic nomination for president in 2008.

Did these same New Yorkers ask Hillary to answer the rape allegation against her husband? Seems to me that I remember that 67% of the American public believed Juanita Broadderick's charge that she was raped by Hillary's husband?

26 posted on 11/10/2006 7:00:51 PM PST by ErieGeno
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To: HAL9000
New Yorkers Give Hillary Clinton Green Light to Seek White House

Let's stop focusing on Mrs. Clinton.

Let's spend our energies to find the right and best Republican candidate---the one who represents us and the majority of America.

We nominate the right candidate, I promise you no one will remember what "New Yorkers Gave Hillary".

27 posted on 11/10/2006 7:01:19 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: Right_in_Virginia

"Let's spend our energies to find the right and best Republican candidate---the one who represents us and the majority of America. "

And who might that be? Some RINO like McCain or Guiliani?

Condi could rip the Democrat Party apart by taking some of the black and some of the female vote.

Or can we afford another neocon?

I'm really afraid of another Democrat President, especially Hillary.


28 posted on 11/10/2006 8:17:11 PM PST by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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To: HAL9000

If they didn't give her the green light, she'd run the red.


29 posted on 11/10/2006 8:27:46 PM PST by Man of the Right
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To: HAL9000

Thanks to The Patriot Shop this graces my front bumper.

30 posted on 11/10/2006 8:52:17 PM PST by TigersEye (Ego chatters endlessly on. Mind speaks in great silence.)
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