Some more interesting polling results from Rasmussen Reports on Hillary Clinton.
Fewer See Hillary Being Nominated in 2008
Just 23% of Americans now believe that Senator Hillary Clinton is “very likely” to be the Democratic Presidential nominee in 2008, a decline of ten percentage points over the past year and a half. It’s also the lowest level ever recorded in more than three dozen Hillary Meter surveys dating back to April 2005.
If she is on the Presidential ballot in 2008, 39% of Americans say they would definitely vote against Senator Clinton. That’s up three points from 36% two weeks ago. Thirty-one percent (31%) say they would definitely vote for her, unchanged from the previous survey (see trends). In every edition of the Hillary Meter, a plurality of Americans have said they would definitely vote against her.
Currently, 44% of Americans see the New York Senator as politically liberal while 32% see her as a moderate. Those numbers have remained generally consistent for the past year and a half. Only once has the number viewing Clinton as liberal fallen more than three points below the current reading. And, only once has it moved more than three points above the current reading.
That means Clinton is seen by the public as 54 points left of the nation’s political center. The political center is calculated by subtracting the number of liberals from the number of conservatives among the general public (35% conservative, 18% liberal for a net +17). For the Senator, 7% conservative minus 44% liberal equals a net minus 37. The minus 37 reading for Senator Clinton is 54 points away from the plus 17 reading for the general public.
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