Clinton Holds Solid Leads Over All GOP Challengers
Hillary Clinton’s “potential place in history and her husband’s tenure in the White House boost her presidential prospects, while Jeb Bush’s political legacy and Mitt Romney’s 2012 run for the office are negatives,” a new ABC News/Washington Post poll finds.
“Clinton leads both in hypothetical head-to-head matchups at this early stage – as well as Rand Paul, Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee alike. The national survey finds 53 to 56 percent support for Clinton among registered voters against each of these potential Republican candidates, while they get 39 to 41 percent. One reason is that Clinton is stronger in her political base, given the far more fragmented nature of the current GOP field.”
As with Barack Obama, the recovery helps Clinton. About three-quarters of registered voters who rate the economy positively support her, and she leads overwhelmingly among those who say they’ve gained ground financially under Obama’s presidency. But she also leads, by 16 to 20 points, among those whose finances have just held steady.
Clinton has a strong advantage among those who see income inequality as a major problem, and she runs essentially evenly vs. these potential Republican nominees among those who think it’s a problem, but not a major one. She trails only among those who don’t think the income gap is a problem – just 16 percent of registered voters.
Women favor Clinton by 20- to 24-point margins, men by non-significant 2- to 7-point margins. She’s also strong among racial and ethnic minorities, adults under 40 and lower-income voters.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2015/01/historys-a-positive-for-clinton-not-so-for-bush-or-romney/
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And, frankly, I don't give a rat's ass what other countries do during the election seasons.
If you're trying to argue against the FACT that election season begins after the midterms, your arguing against decades of factual data. Good luck. And I can't WAIT to let my daughter press the button for Hillary. 
Because Democrats will always do the right thing, especially the Turd Way.
It doesn't fit your narrative.
It doesn't matter if it's Hillary or any other politician that is being used to purchase your vote, if your integrity can be obtained in this matter, eventually what you have will be worthless and or you will have nothing. It's analogous to playing a game of Monopoly where you are dealt all of money and another person was dealt all the property pieces. The point being at the time when you have went around the board enough, you will eventually be defrocked
The only question i would like to ask is if you still be around about three or four years from now,
so we can tell you and the rest of the cheerleaders 'we told you so'?
Thanks for that, laughter is always good medicine.
And guess what, if she loses it's going to be all our fault for not supporting her. I'm sure it has nothing to do with her 1% policies and support.
It'll be the folks on DU, all of us who are aware of the third way and the damage they have caused for not supporting Hillary.
and the wheel goes round and round, round and round.
Jobs and livable wages. I'm sure there's a hell of a lot more but your going to have to look it up. 
The opposite of the TPP.
why can't we see it? You have a happy posting BS day too.
it's how they are written the affect us. Your also talking to someone who lost his career cause of NAFTA.
your particular issues don't compare to the misery of the rest of the nation. But yeah, go ahead and put words in my mouth. I'll check in with my wife and daughter tonight and see if I dismiss women.
They can try and will continue to try but I'm pretty confident Roe vs Wade will not be overturned unless the powers that be want a nation full of women and men taking up arms.
Here's a secret, I don't want anyone telling my daughter what she can and can't do with her body, period.
Also it takes votes on both sides to confirm a Supreme Court Judge. Remember during Bush junior reign how the Democrats bent over backwards for Republicans, including Supreme Court positions.
Your going to want to tell the Senators and Representatives you employ with your tax dollars to do the right thing and actually support their constituents cause I promise I cannot single handedly overturn RvW on my own, sorry.
This is why I push the third way away. We need people we can count on, not Republican lite.
Gosh, all those pollsters should save a lot of time and just talk to you.
Except for his home state, and oh yeah his speech at the Democratic convention, no one "knew" or predicted Obama in 2007..yet he happened anyway.
To say at this point that there "is no Obama in the wings this time" is to close your eyes to history, and the unpredictability of the political process. Remember, everyone, and I literally mean, everyone "knew" HRC was going to be the Democratic nominee in 2008.
Just because the certain Dem's are determined to control the meme about her, does not mean it will happen. She is NOT a progressive, anyone with eyes knows this. So lets all sit back and enjoy the show. I suspect that for HRC it is going to wind up being a replay of the "Titanic" for her once again.
The 83% of Dems who either want Clinton or someone more conservative are also without eyes? Only the 11% of Dems who want someone more liberal than Clinton have eyes?
http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/25/politics/clinton-liberals-trust/
Can I get a ride?
... but I absolutely will not vote for her.
I wasn't born yesterday. I realize politics isn't about ponies; it's about compromise.
In the past, I've actively supported and voted for candidates with whom I had significant differences. But we all have our limits, and I've reached mine.
No more warmongering, corporatist, neo-liberal Wall Street suckups for me.
Enough is enough.
BTW, I heard a little bit of Hartmann and Pap this morning talking about the (Dershowitz) Douche-o-witz scandal.
Thirdway supporters are out in full force 2 years prior to anything happening.
You equate posts with popularity contests.
It's such a joke the DU admins made it their pic of the moment.
She's thirdway, you know, the people who helped us lose the midterms. I'm sure you have the data on how there's 0% chance she'll fuck it up again.
But go ahead, live your fantasy, it's still a free country.
darts at it.
And enjoy your fast approaching vacation.
democrats are way in the lead already!
I can't wait to vote for our next democratic President whoever he or she may be! 
Then it must have been his vast Republican base that put him in the White House 2 times!
All the pissing and moaning because a potential Democratic candidate beats out every Republican candidate.
Crazy..........
Conversely, out of the public eye, her favorability soars.
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/msnbc-hillary-more-shes-public-spotlight-less-public-seems-her
That should make another run for POTUS fun.
People who despise Clinton comfort themselves with two contradictory crutches -
1. Her high ratings are just NAME RECOGNITION
2. The MORE she's out there, the LESS people like her.
Bill and Hillary Clinton remain two of the most investigated and written about people in history. As Bartcop once said, "We've never looked at (anyone) so close in all of history. Elvis, JFK, the Beatles and Jesus Christ combined never had so many scurrilous, untrue,
shit-for-brains lies told about them."
For as the ABC poll said, Hillary's history is a PLUS for her, not a negative.
