Hillary Clinton’s Appeal Survives Scrutiny, Poll Says

[NCTraveler]

Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to have initially weathered a barrage of news about her use of a private email account when she was secretary of state and the practices of her family’s foundation, an indication that she is starting her second presidential bid with an unusual durability among Democratic voters.

Americans now view Mrs. Clinton more favorably and more see her as a strong leader than they did earlier in the year, despite weeks of scrutiny about her ethics, a New York Times/CBS News poll has found. And nearly nine in 10 Democrats say the nation is ready to elect a woman president.

Republican voters showed the most openness to considering Senator Marco Rubio of Florida and former Govs. Mike Huckabee of Arkansas and Jeb Bush of Florida among their party’s presidential contenders, the survey found.


Mrs. Clinton remains a polarizing figure — nearly the same percentage of Americans view her positively as negatively — but her favorability rating has improved by nine percentage points since the disclosure in late March that she did not use a government email account as secretary of state.

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Oh. Fuck you Gowdy.

[leftofcool]

1. And the rest of the Gowdy ilk.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. THE NYT drives a lot of media coverage...

They have been beating up Hillary for the past month...The way they are presenting this poll suggests they might be going in another direction. Who knows? Maybe they will beat up Republicans? The problem is there are so many of em...

[TheNutcracker]

2. A shame to have to continue to worry about it, and it always leads to........

need I say?

[sufrommich]

4. The constant conspiratorial attacks on her have the

opposite effect of their intent,just like they did with B.Clinton.

[NCTraveler]

5. I have posted that sentiment twice in the last month and a half.

This part of history with the Clintons is amazingly consistent. When under relentless and fabricated or weak attacks, they become even more popular.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. And their enemies on the left and right always overreach./NT

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

7. The email server will come up in a debate ...

My guess is she'll parry it by laughing dismissively and saying that we should talk about issues.

[NCTraveler]

9. It would be the perfect and correct response.

And would go over well with everyone. Well, except the Gowdy emailgate crowd. Does that piece of shit still have the Benghazi/email probe open? I hope so.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. Oh, yes, that probe will continue, and will expand

[Dwayne Hicks]

8. Good for her

I am ready for Hillary!

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. Remember how this "news" article got posted incessantly here at the old DU?

"Democratic support for Hillary Clinton softens: Reuters/Ipsos poll"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141043353

And we were told how she was doomed. She'd never recover. Did anyone seriously think a faux scandal, this far out, would damage HRC beyond repair? I just love the DU punditocracy. They're always so "accurate".

[NCTraveler]

12. Thank you. I just shared the good news with that op. nt.