Posted on 01/23/2015 8:27:27 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
The new Washington Post-ABC News poll shows Hillary Rodham Clinton leading five potential GOP presidential candidates by between 16 and 20 points. But as the good folks of social media were quick to point out, it is January 2015, and the 2016 election isn't until November 2016. (Thanks, guys!)
And we sympathize; Clinton, after all, is a known quantity, and the crew of Republicans who could run against her, while well-known to anybody who reads The Fix, is decidedly less well-known to the broader public. So the poll match-ups aren't quite fair and only tell us so much.
Except for when it comes to one of her opponents.
Willard Mitt Romney, you see, was the 2012 Republican presidential nominee. His name ID is probably about the same as Clinton's is. So it's harder to look at his 17-point deficit and chalk it up to just some early poll that, to quote the poll doubters, "means nothing."
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He’d poll better running as a democrat.
All the polls match myth with hillary. I’d like to see a poll with them on the same ticket; makes more sense.
Romney and Jeb the Mexican must have made some kind of evil deal.
The Jeb machine is trying to push him out. Stick in there Mitt and split up that country club vote.
Behind to Clinton, so let’s run the same tired message that lost to Barack.
Yes he would if the Democrat party was run mainly by the union hacks and public trough feeders of a generation ago. Now they are run the overt Marxists and their Islamofacist allies, so he wouldn’t stand a chance.
Mitt is so last month’s sushi that shows up in the back of the refrigerator.
Mitt isn’t in it to win it, he’s in it to see conservatives lose it.
He’d be alright with Hillary, who’s single greatest achievement was “creating” Hillarycare I mean Romneycare I mean Obamacare.
Romney is Mormon.
Yes.
And .. you NEVER see Hillary polled against Ted Cruz ..??
Why is that ..?? Maybe because she wouldn’t look so good.
Even Hillary can beat him to a pulp !!!
LOL
If he’d fought Obama as hard as he fought Gingrich, Perry, and Santorum he’d have won 40 states.
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