CNN Poll- By a 57% -42% margin Americans would be proud to call Hillary Clinton president

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Her favorable/Unfavorable is 53%-44%

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/03/16/clinton.poll.pdf

[leftofcool]

1. No doubt! If she is the nominee, I would be proud to call her my President!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. CNN tried to bury it with a different headline

By the way the 57-42% figure is up from 50-49% same time last year.

Bill Clinton has a 65-31% favorability rating.

[MANative]

3. Wow - that's a larger margin than I would have expected. Happy to hear it! n/t

[DemocratSinceBirth]

4. And right in the midst of the e-mail brouhaha./NT

[MANative]

7. Do you know what my favorite Shakespeare play is? I'll bet you can guess. ;)

"Much Ado About Nothing" seems to fit the bill pretty well, particularly in light of all of her likely competitors' similar (if not worse) transgressions with official communication.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Like Jeb Bush discussing troop movements and nuclear power plant security?/NT

[MANative]

13. Bingo! n/t

[Maedhros]

5. I have no problem going against the grain. [n/t]

[davidn3600]

6. 99% of the 1% will be proud to call her president too!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

8. I'm broke but would be proud to call her my president.

But thank you for bumping my thread.

[Thinkingabout]

28. They have smart people in the 1%, check who Warren Buffett has donated funds.

Thank you for pointing this out.

[arikara]

9. But take a look at the historical results of that same poll

She's lower now than anytime since 2008. And still dropping.

Hillary is as divisive as any Bush. Do people really want to go through all these scandals with the Clintons and Bushes over and over again?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. I don't care if Republicants hate her...That suggests to me she is doing something right.

I will support that candidate which the evidence suggests is best positioned to beat the Republican and let the future take care of itself.

[arikara]

15. Her numbers have been dropping since 2008

That doesn't indicate "doing something right". Just sayin'.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

17. Clinton Favorability, Familiarity Bests 2016 Contenders

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Hillary Clinton is one of a few potential 2016 presidential candidates to have a significantly higher favorable (50%) than unfavorable (39%) rating among the American public. And the 89% of Americans who are familiar enough with Clinton to have an opinion of her is more than any other potential 2016 presidential candidate. Clinton's relatively high scores on both dimensions give her a better starting position regarding her image than other competitors would have in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

[hrmjustin]

12. Good. A few heads will explode but she will make a great president.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

14. Somebody mentioned her favorables are down which is true.

However that poll was taken during e-mail fever and she is now once again a partisan figure... All in all, good, the CNN gasbags, errrrrrr... pundits looked kind of unhappy when discussing it.

[hrmjustin]

16. Looks like she is weathering this nothing scandal just fine.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

18. Sure does, at the height of e-mail fever, no lesss

Why do you think Karl Rove and Bill Kristol are pining for a hotly contested Democratic primary, because they want us to win, I don't think so.

[winstars]

19. But, but, but I haven't read every single email she ever sent! Oh and ahhh, BENGAZI!!!

And and and she HAD A SERVER in her house... I believe it was next to the (not)missing Rose Law firm records and of course the pieces of a watermelon that killed Vince Foster... Oh wait, I think I am getting mixed up a bit...

Hey, and what about the Clinton Foundation taking money from Saudi Arabia. That money could have been used for a better use, like buying a bigger piece of Faux News. Oh, wait...


Maybe people aren't as stupid as they seem

[freshwest]

21. Agreed, some aren't as stupid as they sound, either.

[PowerToThePeople]

20. I am proud to be in the 42%

[Prism]

22. That isn't at all what that poll said.

It simply asked favorable vs. unfavorable. Not "proud to call Hillary Clinton president" which is a complete fabrication. I may have a generally favorable view of Secretary Clinton (and I do), but I also want her nowhere near the White House. (EDIT: First paragraph is wrong. I didn't see the question on page 5. Must read more carefully).

Also, the poll results track more or less what we already know - When she is not much in the news, her favorable ratings rise. When attention is focused on her, she becomes a more divisive figure. She is now tracking in the lower end of her general approval rating, where she topped out at the height of the 2008 primary.

Secretary Clinton is not a staggeringly adored politician, no matter what the propaganda. She tends to generate partisan feelings and divides people whenever the public is forced to deal with her. When she goes away, people like her more.

Not exactly the ringing endorsement some would have.

We need someone else. Anyone else, really.

[Metric System]

23. The proud question is on page 5 of the PDF.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. He or she called me a prevaricator.

"Where do i go to get my reputation back ? "

[Prism]

26. I see that now. Will edit.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. " Not "proud to call Hillary Clinton president" which is a complete fabrication."

Truthiness is a hill I would die on:

23. Thinking about the following characteristics and qualities, please say whether you think it applies or
doesn’t apply to Hillary Clinton: (RANDOM ORDER)
Does not No
Applies apply opinion
Someone you would be proud to have as president
March 13-15, 2015 57% 42% 1%
March 7-9, 2014* 50% 49% 1%
March 14-16, 2008* 57% 42% 1%


Page 5 question 23


http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2015/images/03/16/clinton.poll.pdf

[Prism]

27. No, I see that now.

I was wrong, you were right.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

29. No problem.

Plus it gives me the opportunity to say that's up from 50-49% at roughly the same time last year.

BTW, I am not disputing she's a polarizing figure but as long as our pole is even a little bit bigger than their pole I'm comfortable with that.

[Prism]

31. LOL

Silver linings =)

[DemocratSinceBirth]

32. I changed liar to prevaricator in my post to take the sting out of it.

Prevaricator doesn't sound nearly as bad.


PEACE
DSB

[Thinkingabout]

30. Wasn't involved in this poll but I will vote to be Proud to

Call Hillary President.

[Xithras]

33. Humorously, according to the same poll, 49% consider her dishonest and untrustworthy.

Apparently 6% of Americans consider her dishonest and untrustworthy, and would still be proud to call her President. What is going on in the heads of THOSE people??!?!