Posted on 05/31/2013 7:33:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hillary Clinton’s favorability rating dropped significantly in a Quinnipiac University poll released Friday, as the months-long investigation into the terrorist attacks in Benghazi have begun to drag on the former secretary of State.
According to the survey, 52 percent said they have a favorable view of Clinton, against 40 unfavorable. That’s down from her all-time high of 61 percent favorable and 34 unfavorable in February of this year.
“Her score is down substantially from her all-time high score in February,” said Quinnipiac director of polling Peter A. Brown in a statement.
“The drop in favorability is substantial among men, Republicans and independent voters. One reason for her drop may be that 48 percent of voters blame her either a little or a lot for the death of the American ambassador in Benghazi.”
House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) this week subpoenaed State Department documents related to the Obama administration’s talking points about he attack. The State Department has already released more than 100 emails related to the talking points, but Issa called the release “incomplete.”
Many Republicans say the Obama administration, through the State Department, misled the American people about the nature of the attacks in the days following the siege that killed Ambassador Chris Stevens and three other Americans.
White House officials have said the talking points were constructed at a time when it was too early to draw concrete conclusions about the nature of the attacks. Still, Clinton remains the frontrunner in the 2016 presidential race.
Quinnipiac polled two potential Republican challengers; Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. Paul clocked in at 32 percent favorable and 24 percent unfavorable. Bush was at 29 percent positive and 29 percent negative.
Clinton leads Paul 49 percent to 41 percent in a hypothetical head-to-head match-up, and leads Bush 48 to 40.
“Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton remains the queen of the 2016 hill at this point, but the wide gap between her and some of the leading Republican contenders on favorability may be closing, as her overall favorability has taken a hit,” Brown said.
Vice President Joe Biden suffers from a negative approval rating, at 37 percent favorable and 44 percent unfavorable.
“If Ms. Clinton chooses not to run in 2016, the potential Democratic field could include a somewhat unpopular vice president and a number of new faces who are unknown to the vast majority of Americans,” Brown said.
The Quinnipiac poll of 1,419 registered voters was conducted between May 22 and May 28 and has a 2.6 percentage point margin of error.
RE: Women still adore Bill as was evidenced in 2012 after he spoke
Apparently women do not seem to care what he did to Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Paul Jones, Katherine Wiley and Juanita Broaderick, etc.
The NOW Nags are strangely silent on this score...
If Hildebeest has the nerve to run on her atrocious record, she has an excellent chance of winning the nomination and the presidency. Low-info voters don’t you know. As I say in my tagline...
Does the poll include AR, where she may not be wildly popular?
No, the women have had a “hopefully” strange attraction for this “man from Hope.”
She is salivating at the likelihood of trouncing Jebbie.
If Hillary runs, put Cruz up against her.
Just run ads about Hillary and Benghazi and how she has destroyed the lives of Hispanics in the name of the welfare state. Use her support of the 146% increase healthcare costs to Hispanics in California and New York. Bring people forward.
Is it true? Who cares. Fight fire with fire.
My main reaction to all this Hillary talk, is that Hillary was the “inevitable” nominee, and the “front runner” in 2008, and did not win the nomination.
If she was inevitable before, and lost to an upstart Senator named Barack Obama, what makes anyone think that she is inevitable now? There are other Democrats, such as Joe Biden, Governor Cuomo of New York, and others, who will go after the nomination too.
Remember too, when Hillary ran in 2008, she had some of the highest negatives ever recorded in polling for a major party presidential candidate. If she runs again, all the Clinton scandals, and her record in the Obama administration, will be front and center again, and push up her negatives.
THEY voted for Barry S TWICE!
Jeb Bush is obviously running and he will lose to Hillary. The idiot was up here in Michigan this week pushing Amnesty and Common core education at the Mackinac center this week.
RE: THEY voted for Barry S TWICE!
How big a factor in 2012 was :
1) Conservatives staying home
2) Voter fraud
Of course, you're right, but the point of my post (maybe not made well enough)is that negatives don't seem to be fatal to Demonrats if the get to run against Republicans for president. Obama in 2012 had huge perceived negatives that he handily overcame, helped by a significant (albeit unknown) amount of vote fraud, fraud that would also be used to push Hildebeest over the line if she is the 'rat nominee.
Cruz before Rubio’s amnesty by another name.
Assuming of course we actually put up a conservative to vote for and not some moderate clown that the media chooses for us.
Jeb Bush can't beat Hillary as an example.
Just repeatedly show her image on TV with her statement, “What difference does it make?”
Or a series of spots each with a serious scandal followed by her statement of “What difference does it make”
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