CNN is actually polling "Hillary Rodham Clinton" or "Hillary Clinton"

[journalist3072]

I can't believe somebody is getting paid to worry about who polls better: "Hillary Rodham Clinton" or "Hillary Clinton." Who cares what she does with her maiden name? That's her business! Shouldn't they be polling what people think of her policies?


Poll: Spare the 'Rodham,' spoil her election

POSTED: 6:47 p.m. EDT, October 20, 2006

(CNN) -- If presidential elections were held today, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would likely have a comfortable edge over Sen. John McCain, but take away her maiden name and McCain has a better shot of landing in the Oval Office.

So say the results of a CNN poll released Friday by Opinion Research Corp., which asked 506 adult Americans whom they preferred among potential 2008 presidential candidates. The margin of error for the survey is plus or minus 4.5 percent.

Asked if they preferred Hillary Rodham Clinton to McCain, respondents gave the Democratic New York senator and former first lady a 51 percent to 44 percent advantage over the Republican Senator from Arizona. Remove "Rodham" and McCain had a 1 percentage point advantage, 48 percent to 47 percent.

The results fall within the sample's margin of error, so there is a "good chance, but not a statistical certainty" that Clinton's maiden name would help her in a matchup against McCain, said Keating Holland, CNN's polling director.

Rest of article here: http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/20/poll.08/index.html

[leesa]

1. She's corporate media's candidate. Of course they care. They will do the

same with their other product model, Obama. He will then be installed to vote against things like caps on 30+% interest on credit card payments so that he can be the darling of the credit card industry.

[BootinUp]

2. Next they will use "Billary" in the poll. lol.