52% in poll would re-elect Clinton--AP/Buffalo News

[Gloria]

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20051001/1039074.asp


52% in poll would re-elect Clinton
By MARC HUMBERT
Associated Press
10/1/2005
ALBANY - More than 50 percent of the state's voters say they definitely will vote to re-elect Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton next year, and she holds substantial leads over her potential Republican rivals, including Jeanine Pirro, a statewide poll found Friday.

A competitor for the GOP Senate nomination said the poll indicates Pirro is not the candidate to take on the former first lady.

The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion poll also found most voters don't think Clinton, who other polls have as the front-runner for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, should pledge to serve her full six-year Senate term if re-elected.

Facing criticism as a "carpetbagger" because she never before had lived in the state, Clinton made such a pledge when she first ran for the Senate in 2000, and her refusal to renew the pledge has become a key thrust of the Pirro campaign.

The Marist poll found 52 percent of registered voters said they definitely would vote to re-elect the former first lady while 32 percent said they definitely would vote against her.

Against Pirro, Westchester County's high-profile district attorney and favored candidate of Stephen Minarik, chairman of the state Republican Party, Clinton leads, 59 percent to 35 percent.

The new poll also showed Clinton leading Manhattan lawyer Edward Cox, a son-in-law of President Richard M. Nixon, 61 percent to 34 percent.

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[Laura PourMeADrink]

That's all??? That confirms it - 1/2 the people are STUPID. n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Scratch that -- I jumped too soon. Thought you were talking BIG DOG

I must read before I respond, I must read before I respond, I must read before I respond....

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Please gimme a link!

This is too juicy to pass up!

Thanks!

--p!

[joemurphy]

2. I would too. In a New York minute. n/t

[aquart]

9. She voted for the war, the Patriot Act........

She's got a way to go before she looks like anything but average.

[William769]

3. You go Girl!

[Gloria]

5. Link up....got interrupted and thought I had posted it...

[TruePatriate]

6. One of the Greatest Presidents of our time.

Go Clinton!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. man, you did the same thing I did -- this about Hillary...

[joemurphy]

8. Whoops! Me too! Wishful thinking, I guess :-) n/t

[lcordero2]

10. I assumed that it was for BILL Clinton too but I was wondering

why it was at a lowly 52%. For as much as I hate the DLC and for as much as I despise HRC she seems to be the lesser evil.

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[lcordero2]

13. how was his comment harmful?

[CTyankee]

14. Right now, we'd consider ourselves lucky to have HRC

I know those on DU who do not like the DLC and have cogent arguments for not liking it are sincere and caring liberals. Up to just a month ago I felt that it was a strong issue. Now, after Katrina and the loss of N.O. and the torrent of malfeasance of the Republicans and Bill Bennett's outrage, I think we've got to set aside all of our internal wars and concentrate on the true enemy.

It is a trauma to wake up every morning under this administration. It truly haunts me. HRC is the least of our problems!

[ncteechur]

12. It's a Mandate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AlGore-08.com]

15. F.Y.I. this is a little less than she got in 2000

She won her seat in 2000 with 55.27% of the vote.

For comparison, NY results for Dems in the Presidential cycles & Senate races in the last 12 years:

National:
48.26 Kerry (2004)
60.21 Gore (2000)
49.23 Clinton (1996)
43.01 Clinton (1992)

Senate:
55.27 Clinton (2000)
54.62 Schumer (1998)
55 Moynihan (1994)
47.8 Abrams (1992 - - for those who don't know, he lost to D'Amato)

[SaveElmer]

16. This is a different number...this is huge

These are people who will definitely vote for her. For this type of question 52% is a huge number. You can add on another 8-10% of those who are not decided yet falling her way. She will outdo her 2000 number by a considerable margin.