It's The Favorability Rating Stupid

[Me.]

No one pays much attention to favorability ratings, nit now and not in the primaries. HRC, sorry to say, always had high unfavorables. Now the great phenom's favorables are dropping like a rock. She's lost 13 points since she started, from 17 to 4. She's nit all that after all.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=7076005

[Captain Hilts]

1. No, HRC's and Obama's unfavorables were not that far apart...

his got up into the 40s.

And TWO national surveys taken the last week of May showed her beating McCain by a wider margin than Obama would.

[Me.]

2. Not Really

Her unfavorables were always in the 40's and sometimes above.

http://www.pollingreport.com/C2.htm


In a mid-April Gallup/USA Today poll, Clinton was rated favorable by 45% of American respondents and unfavorable by 52%. Clinton’s two main rivals, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, fared better, with 52% favorable ratings – and with 27% unfavorable for Obama and 31% for Edwards. Clinton’s standing improved in May, when the same polling organization found her favorability rose to 53% and unfavorable dropped to 45%. But in June her numbers reversed, as 46% declared their approval and 50% found her unfavorable.

http://articles.latimes.com/2007/jul/03/nation/na-clinton3