Posted on 11/11/2012 10:54:15 AM PST by drewh
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would start out as a dominant favorite in the 2016 Iowa caucuses if she chooses to run for president, a new survey from Public Policy Polling finds.
The PPP poll, which was shared exclusively with POLITICO, shows Clinton taking 58 percent of the Iowa vote in a hypothetical presidential run. Vice President Joe Biden trails far behind at 17 percent, followed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo at 6 percent and Massachusetts Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren at 3 percent.
None of the other Democrats tested – Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Virginia Sen. Mark Warner – cracked 1 percent in the poll.
If Clinton doesn’t run, Biden would jump into the lead with a less-commanding 40 percent of the vote, with Cuomo rising to 14 percent and Warren up to 9 percent. In the event that neither Clinton nor Biden runs, Cuomo draws 30 percent to Warren’s 13 percent, with 46 percent of voters unsure who they’d support.
As one would expect, Clinton and Biden are by far the best-known and best-liked of the Democrats’ potential 2016 field. Both are universally known and have approximately equal favorability ratings: Clinton gets a positive response from 86 percent of Democrats and a negative response from 11 percent. For Biden, those numbers are 85 percent positive, 15 percent negative.
But the big picture here speaks for itself: Clinton looms over the Democratic presidential field and will likely continue to do so for the foreseeable future.
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I bet Obama after 2016 becomes Head of the UN...now that frankly scares the crap out of me.....
The next 4 years are not over yet and these idiots are talking about Hillary and biden. Not to worry voter fraud will shoo you in in 2016. The’re will be no resistance, BEACUASE THERE IS NO RESISTANCE NOW!!!!!!
‘female’ president - when Valerie Jarrett decides to retire.
As of now, Valerie’s birth certificate shows she was born in IRAN. Subject to change, if necessary!
Don’t forget Jerry Sandusky. Yeah, I know he is a convicted felon and in prison, but all he did is help those little boys discover their true sexuality. It is just a matter of time before BO comes out of the closet and pardons him. < / sarcasm >
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