Even after the recent negative attention former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D) received over using private email to conduct official business, she still is the favorite over the entire likely 2016 presidential field, according to a new CNN poll on Wednesday.
Clinton leads the rest of the likely Democratic field by more than 40 points, the poll found. Sixty-two percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning Independents listed Clinton as their preferred candidate in 2016, followed by Vice President Joe Biden with 15 percent, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) —who has repeatedly said she won’t run for president— with 10 percent, and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) with 3 percent.
In head to head matchups with Republicans, meanwhile, Clinton tops each candidate by at least 10 points. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), gets closest, the poll found, with 43 percent saying they would back him, and 54 percent saying they would support Clinton.
In a matchup with former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R), Clinton leads 55 percent to 40 percent. Those numbers are the same in a head-to-head matchup with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R). Walker and Bush have generally polled at the head of the expected 2016 GOP field.
The CNN poll’s findings comes in the aftermath of revelations that Clinton used a personal email server to conduct official business at the State Department. Clinton, at a press conference at the United Nations, explained that the emails on the server that she deleted were personal emails related to things like planning her daughter’s wedding or her yoga routines.
The poll was conducted between March 13 and March 15 among 1,009 voters. It had a margin of error of plus or minis 3 percentage points.
High water raises all boats. Lots of Dems will get swept in next election.
There will be eleventy gazillion four humbolt and kasixty vakillion billion thousand and two presidential polls between Now time and Election Day 2016, and in the end each of them will fall into one of two distinct piles:
the pile made up the Lying Pollsters to serve the Lies their Lying owners wish to spread to make maximum tax deductible cash loot money moolah off the Base, and
the other pile where each and every one will say within one standard deviation pretty much the same essential thing this CNN poll says.
Yep. Vegas sets odds to make sure the money is even on both sides. Media does the same with candidates. The money is made in the drama. So drama WILL happen.
I’m no fan of Herself, but I think Ed Kilgore’s analysis of 2016 is pretty damn realistic. This makes 2016 for the US very much like 1933 was for a certain central European country, where a “charismatic orator” beat the somewhat lackluster advocate of government-as-it-existed. The next 12 years didn’t really “work out” as history demonstrated. The thought of any of the Republican shitheads being in the White House with a Republican Senate and House (just remember, their gerrymandering is just getting started, so don;'t bank on a “presidential year demographic”) is enough to make me renew my passport early and consider banking in the Bahamas. It’s definitely enough for me to invest in a clothespin on the way to the precinct.
Nice to hear, but the serious ratfucking hasn’t even started yet.