Poll: Clinton Would Lead Rice in '08 Race

[jefferson_dem]

By MARC HUMBERT, Associated Press Writer
Sat Oct 22,10:55 AM ET

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton leads Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in a hypothetical presidential matchup, according to an independent poll released Friday.

The poll, conducted by Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion in conjunction with New York City television station WNBC, gave the former first lady 50 percent to 41 percent for Rice.

But Republicans John McCain and Rudolph Giuliani both topped Clinton.

The poll, mirroring other recent national surveys, had Clinton as the clear front-runner for the 2008 Democratic nomination, favored by 41 percent of her party's voters to 17 percent for Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts and 14 percent for former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, Kerry's running mate in 2004.

Asked about Clinton's political leanings, 39 percent of voters said she was too liberal, while 46 percent said she was about right.

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The poll had McCain leading Clinton, 50 percent to 41 percent. Giuliani was ahead of the former first lady, 50 percent to 43 percent.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051022/ap_on_el_pr/clinton_poll&printer=1

[Muddy Waters Guitar]

1. Neither of them is electable

Rice would never be accepted by the GOP, not with her pro-choice and pro-race preferences views (plus being so tied into the Iraq debacle), and Hillary has enraged her own base with her support for the Iraq War as well as an attack on Syria. Forget it. It's not each other they should be worrying about, it's their own base that they've offended.

Besides, polls like this so far before an election are little more than humorous hypotheticals. They're based on name-recognition above all else, and they're pretty much useless in the months before primary season when the candidates actually begin to explain themselves before the public.

[barbaraann]

3. Republicans accepted a failed, drunken, evil puppet in 2000 and 2004

as a Presidential candidate so I have no doubt they would accept a failed, sober, evil puppet in 2008.

[Wilms]

2. Clinton Would Lead Rice in '08 Race...

And come in third behind two repugs.

That's all you need to understand. :shrug:

[Totally Committed]

4. Do not fall for this...

The MSM, Dick Morris, the DLC, and the RNC would love for you to believe this bullshit, and push for Hillary.

Neither she nor Condi is electable. Resist the thought of Hillary as the nominee. I beg you. She is who the Republicans want to run against more than anyone else because they know they can beat her.

TC

[TheWraith]

6. Ease off on the paranoia.

Your vision of a vast evil conspiracy to run Hillary Clinton is more than a little over the top. The only evidence on record that ANYONE besides the Republicans wants Hillary to run is a load of speculation by sundry press outfits, pundits, and what have you. For that matter, I have yet to see any evidence that she even wants to run. Everyone thought she was going to run in 2004 too, and she didn't even glance twice at the primaries.

In any event, the reason Republicans want Hillary to run is because they want any excuse to revive their fetish for the Clintons. They want an excuse to pull out BC's sex life for campaign ads, claim she's a lesbian, talk about Vince Foster, etcetera--the whole Swift Boat deal. It gives them a hardon.

[Totally Committed]

7. I am not alone in my "paranoia".... n/t

TC

[Kablooie]

5. but wouldn't Clinton confuse shool kids?

They'd have to remember that the presidents at the turn of the century were Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton.

It could cause lots of confusion when teaching history.

[mmonk]

8. Enough with these imaginary scenarios already