http://mediamatters.org/items/200705150009?f=h_latestOn the May 14 edition of CNN's The Situation Room, host Wolf Blitzer asked whether former President Bill Clinton's recent campaign advertisement on behalf of his wife, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY), is "the act of a supportive husband or a sign the Clinton campaign is feeling desperate." Blitzer offered no basis for his suggestion that the Clinton campaign may be "feeling desperate" and did not mention a recent Newsweek poll that shows Sen. Clinton ahead of all the other leading presidential candidates in head-to-head races (though within the margin-of-error in some matchups).
Later, CNN correspondent Jack Cafferty suggested* President Clinton "is, according to the polls, a kind of a divisive figure" -- despite Clinton's latest favorability rating, taken at the end of March in a USA Today/Gallup poll, of 60 percent. The previous two USA Today/Gallup polls, from February 9-11, 2007, and June 23-25, 2006, show Clinton with 63 and 59 percent favorability ratings, respectively, while a February 22-25, 2007, ABC News/Washington Post poll and a September 22-24, 2006, CNN poll shows him at 55 and 60 percent favorable, respectively. By contrast, Republican strategist and former Rep. J.C. Watts (R-OK) told Blitzer: "If I'm a Democrat {sic} candidate, I want Bill Clinton engaged as early as possible. ... {B}y and large, I think Bill Clinton is going to be very good for any Democrat {sic} candidate."
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