Posted on 11/26/2007 10:01:08 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton trails five top Republican presidential contenders in general election match-ups, a drop in support from this summer, according to a poll released on Monday.
Clinton's top Democratic rivals, Barack Obama and John Edwards, still lead Republicans in hypothetical match-ups ahead of the November 4, 2008, presidential election, the survey by Zogby Interactive showed.
Clinton, a New York senator who has been at the top of the Democratic pack in national polls in the 2008 race, trails Republican candidates Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, John McCain and Mike Huckabee by three to five percentage points in the direct matches.
In July, Clinton narrowly led McCain, an Arizona senator, and held a five-point lead over former New York Mayor Giuliani, a six-point lead over former Tennessee Sen. Thompson and a 10-point lead over former Massachusetts Gov. Romney.
She was not matched against the fast-rising Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, in the July poll.
The results come as other national polls show the race for the Democratic nomination tightening five weeks before the first contest in Iowa, which kicks off the state-by-state nomination battles in each party.
Some Democrats have expressed concerns about the former first lady's electability in a race against Republicans. The survey showed Clinton not performing as well as Obama and Edwards among independents and younger voters, pollster John Zogby said.
"The questions about her electability have always been there, but as we get close this suggests that is a problem," Zogby said.
Obama, an Illinois senator, and Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, both hold narrow leads over the Republican contenders in the hypothetical 2008 match-ups.
"It all points to a very competitive general election at a time when many people think the Democrats are going to win the White House," Zogby said.
The poll of 9,355 people had a margin of error of plus or minus one percentage point. The interactive poll surveys individuals who have registered to take part in online polls.
(To read more about the U.S. political campaign, visit Reuters "Tales from the Trail: 2008" online at http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/)
i just don’t know how she is qualified to run for president.
But then, I don’t understand how she was elected senator in NY. She wasn’t really qualified there either. Obama seems to be hitting her pretty hard on this, and fairly so. but he himself is no seasoned veteran.
In fact, I believe Richardson is probably the most qualified in the Democrat field he is pretty far back.
Back to front it's Ozzie Nelson, Harriet, David and Ricky. The show started on radio and made it onto TV where the whole country watched Ricky grow from a smart-mouth kid to a rock 'n' roll star (with a lot of investment from Ozzie).
Totally agree.
I think you midjudge the demand of the American people for the liberal programs that only HRC can provide them. Of course, they will pay for the programs themselves, but they don’t understand that.
In 2004, Democrats got a little shaky about Dean, and went with experience (such as it was) by voting for Kerry. They might want to do that again, but the experienced people are either too long in the tooth, or too obscure. I think at this point they are stuck with a choice among 3; and all 3 are short on experience.
Pigs will soar like eagles, before an inexperienced black (to the extent he is) American (ditto) with a middle name of Hussein, gets nominated to run for POTUS. Therefore if Clinton fails, it should be Edwards.
Incidentally, over at the DUmp they are in denial about the Zogby poll, and they don't even like Hillary. I figure if Zogby didn't smother it, maybe he really thinks it's accurate.
Ooooooooo.......another asinine and highly irrelevant poll.
Who cares about national polls regarding non-national elections?
Who cares what "people" think if they don't vote...or aren't even registered to vote?
Who cares what those that "registered to take part in the online poll" think?
It's not representative of the opinions of likely general election voters....in state-by-state match-ups....so the conclusions don't matter one whit.
It definitely shows some movement away from her though as they conducted a similar style poll previously with her performing better. We can hope can’t we.
Keep it up, people! :)
Yuck. Romney is okay, but he is just too d&^* politician-looking.
“I’m going to have to Euthanize this guy to get his liver”.
I’ve seen polls where Hillary was below 50 (48 I think) against Ron Paul.
Problem was, Paul was only getting 35% with the rest undecided.
Heck Obama might beat the Witch before a Republican gets the chance.
And who said blonds were dumb?
According to this EDWARDS leads republican contenders. Ya think? /os
LMAO
These guys think we are dumber than a bag of hammers.
Anent the “coronation” characterization, I was waiting
in the Baltimore bus station on the 15th, and the
Democratic “debates” were not only shown on the big screens
that all the seats in the station faced, but were being
broadcast on the speakers outside. Orwellian (Most ppl
in 1984 could not turn their TV off, one might recall)
The “debates” were not debates but mini-commercials, and
had a rather obvious “applause track”
Try being a “Jimmy” to your parents and their friends for much of your life. He wanted, far more than many other things, to escape that degrading dimunitive.
Yep. I do not understand how any conservative could support Rudy. He does not have any conservative beliefs.
ROFL!!!
Rudy Giuliani and Hillary Clinton are two candidates who wouldn’t have a chance in hell at winning a presidential election in this country — unless they’re running against an opponent who doesn’t have a chance in hell at winning a presidential election in this country.
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