Poll shows Hillary Rodham Clinton beating McCain 51 percent to 44 percent

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/20/poll.08/

(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.

[Skidmore]

1. So who's chosing either of these individuals as candidates?

I don't think most Rs want McCain, and I believe the same is true of Hillary with Dems.

[elocs]

8. I have a friend who is a traditional, conservative Republican.

He is adamant that he will NOT vote for McCain and will write in somebody else's name if McCain is the Republican candidate in 2008.

[NNN0LHI]

18. A lot of traditional, conservative Republics said the same about Ahnold

But they still voted for him anyway.

Funny that.

Don

[CJCRANE]

2. Hillary seems to be gaining

ground on McCain.

Maybe that's why there's been a push for Obama recently - the MSM PTB wouldn't want the Democrats to actually win.

[NNN0LHI]

3. You are right. McCain was up by 10 points a few months ago n/t

[HockeyMom]

4. Maybe Obama in the VP slot?

He's still very "young".

[CJCRANE]

6. With the Repubs imploding

that ticket does seem like a potential winner now.

I wouldn't have said that a few months ago.

[ruggerson]

11. If she's the nominee (which is a huge question mark still)

she would need a Governor to balance her ticket.

Warner or Schweitzer or Bredesen or ?

[Captain Hilts]

5. He's a duplicitous old crank. And the more you see of him, the less...

you like him.

The 'straight talk' express isn't all that straight.

[orpupilofnature57]

7. ' IF ' Al Gore isn't pulled into service we're screwed, Hillary's realistic

path to presidency is to be Vice first ,pragmatically speaking it's the only thing that will make her palpable.Remember nothing speaks like past performance ,and I don't have enough faith in the voting public to think they could vote non-gender.

[elocs]

9. If the Democrats take one or both houses of Congress,

I believe the success of our candidate in 08 will depend on their performance in the eyes of the voters who have and will swing to vote for a Democrat. If in the next two years the Democrats are perceived as being effective and have clear stances and good ideas rather than simply being anti-Bush, the 08 candidate will do well. If, on the other hand, the swing vote public perceives the Democrats as simply seeking revenge on Bush and extracting their pound of flesh without moving forward with some good ideas and solutions for our problems, then the Democratic candidate for president will not do as well. How the Democrats perform in Congress will set the table for our 08 candidate, whoever it may be.

[mmonk]

10. If Hillary is our candidate in 08,

I hope the decade plus character assassinations against her have finally run their course.

[ThomWV]

12. Great! So Now We Know That The Real Democratic Candidate Will Trounce Him

Cause it sure ain't gonna be Hillary ....

[aquaman]

17. I so agree.

Hillary sucks.

[dkofos]

13. Do we really give a shit about this??

[trogdor]

14. 'HRC' looks even better in the paper.

It would also look good as an oval sticker, and I bet it would give her another five points to boot.

[leesa]

15. Great. One warmonger beating another. They're both nuts.

[treestar]

16. God, who are these people so stupid that makes a difference to them?

Hopefully they are too stupid to find the polls.

[Proud2BAmurkin]

19. my thought too n/t

nt

[NNN0LHI]

20. This poll is a kick in the gut to the Republics

McCain may be a piece of shit but he is the best chance the Republics have at winning the white house in 2008.

The writing is on the wall for them after seeing this poll.

Don