Posted on 04/02/2015 7:28:52 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush now leads the field of Republican candidates for the partys 2016 presidential nomination, but former secretary of state Hillary Rodham Clinton enjoys a decided advantage over Bush and other potential GOP rivals in hypothetical general election matchups, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
At this early stage in the 2016 competition, the prospective candidates suffer from image weaknesses, but the Republicans have a more acute problem. Most Republicans are not well known, but at this point, not a single one of six Republicans included in the survey has a favorability rating that is net positive.
Bush by far the best known among those running for the GOP nomination is viewed favorably by just 33 percent of the public, while 53 percent say they view him unfavorably. Only Clinton among all those included in the poll has a net positive rating, but by the slender margin of three percentage points (49-46 percent). Her favorability rating has dropped nine points in the past year and 18 points since she left the State Department in 2013.
Clinton stands now as the leading contender in either party for the White House, with no serious opposition at this point in the race for the Democratic nomination
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Goldwater claimed she was a “Goldwater girl” in 1964.
So many Americans though do believe in cheap imports. They buy them all the time.
Yup
HRC can lose debates but claim she won on “points”, and her supporters will be happy ever after.
I’m turning off all polls, going to pretend I’m Rip Van Winkle. No going to get sucked into the mental masturbation....
Outright Lies......on both counts.
I wish you were right, but the American people as a whole particularly in critical MI, WI, IL, MN, IA, CO seem forever in HRC’s camp.
What results do you expect when your survey respondents are democrats? How many Conservatives watch/read these propaganda purveyors?
More like a Jim Jones cult.
We tried the whole "unskewed polls" thing last time. They were embarrassingly wrong.
The media and her campaign are already planting the seeds for her winning by using the sexism card, it’s her crutch, she has no other foundation to lean on other than lies.
I will probably go third party if Jeb is the candidate. I am on board with anyone else. If the party shoves Bush III down our throat it is a self-inflicted wound from a collapsing RNC. No longer my problem.
Agree the media again selects who will run no wonder nobody trusts them.
I’m in TX and all my fiends and family are sick to death of the Bushes and won’t be voting for one for president ever again.
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Yep if’a, could’a , would’a.......
Still a long time until the first primary in Jan. 2016.
Lots of ups/downs will be incurred most likely and by
the end of March the die most likely will be cast.
The larger her poll numbers, the least likely she’ll ever have to answer for her sins.
I would like to see the questions on the poll... I would like to know the politics of the people making the phone calls.. Yes, there is 'influence' happening.
Do YOU Eric trust the 'objectivity' of a poll taken by a company that hate us? And make no mistake - the Washington Post hates us.
We don't trust 'moderators' like Candy Crowley anymore ... we don't believe they're 'objective'... we don't trust newspapers or their biased reporting. Why should we trust the people they hire to take polls?
The question they should have asked “which do you prefer, Hillary or one of the current Republican contenders?”.
WaPoABC trying to pick the GOP candiate.................AGAIN...............
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