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Fox News Poll: Hillary Preferred By Dems Over Obama and McCain

By Jeralyn

Fox News has a new poll out. Full poll results are here. (pdf)

Nearly half of Democrats (48 percent) think Hillary Clinton has a better chance of beating John McCain in November — 10 percentage points higher than the 38 percent who think Barack Obama can win, according to a FOX News poll released Wednesday. This represents a significant shift from March, when Democrats said Obama was the candidate more likely to beat McCain.

Democrats continue to favor Clinton as their party’s leader, albeit narrowly: 44 percent want her to win the nomination and 41 percent want Obama. Last month Clinton was preferred by 2 percentage points.

There's also an NBC/WSJ poll out taken of all voters, not just Dems. It finds Bush is a liability to McCain and Obama's "bitter" remarks cost him in favorability, as did Rev. Wright.

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There's even a poll about Bill Clinton's effect at Harris Interactive. Taken two weeks ago, but released yesterdayh, it shows he's doing okay for Hillary.

Not surprisingly, President Clinton is perceived much more favorably by Democrats as two-thirds (66%) of Democrats believe he helps his wife’s campaign compared to 46 percent of Independents and 30 percent of Republicans.

...In this poll, a 63 to 35 percent majority gives him positive ratings for the job he did when he was president. Interestingly this is almost the same as the 65 percent positive, 34 percent negative rating that he received in the final Harris Poll before he left office in January 2001 (Harris Poll #5, 1/19/01). Even three in five (62%) Independents gave him positive ratings for his time in office.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).