About Hillary's High Negatives (They don't EXIST!)

Its a myth created by conventional wisdom and the media.

Her negatives are as high as could be expected by a figure that has been in the national spotlight for 12 years.

To me it looks like her favorables have been trending up, not down, and in July her favorables were higher than any point since Bill left office.


Hillary Rodham Clinton

2004 Jul 19-21
56-favorable
38-unfavorable
-- never heard of
6-no opinion

2003 Oct 24-26
51
44
--
5

2003 Sep 19-21
54
40
--
6

2003 Jun 27-29
52
44
--
4

2003 Jun 9-10
53
43
--
4

2003 Mar 14-15
45
46
--
9

2002 Dec 16-17
48
46
--
6

2002 Sep 23-26
47
44
--
9

2001 Aug 3-5
51
44
--
5

2001 Mar 5-7
44
53
--
3

2001 Feb 19-21
49
44
--
7

2001 Feb 1-4
52
43
--
5

2000 Nov 13-15
56
39
--
5

2000 Oct 25-28
52
43
--
5

2000 Aug 4-5
45
50
--
5

2000 Feb 4-6
55
39
--
6

1999 Dec 9-12
48
48
--
4

1999 Sep 23-26
56
40
--
4

1999 Aug 3-4
56
41
--
3

1999 Jul 22-25
62
35
--
3

1999 Jun 25-27
56
42
--
2

1999 Mar 5-7
65
31
--
4

1999 Feb 19-21
65
30
--
5

1999 Feb 4-8
66
31
--
3

1998 Dec 28-29
67
29
--
4

1998 Oct 9-12(*)
63
33
--
4

1998 Sep 14-15
61
33
--
6

1998 Aug 21-23
61
33
--
6

1998 Aug 20 (*)
60
30
--
10

1998 Aug 18 (*)
64
29
--
7

1998 Aug 10-12
60
36
--
4

1998 Aug 7-8
60
35
--
5

1998 Feb 13-15
60
36
--
4

1998 Jan 30-Feb 1
64
34
--
2

1998 Jan 28 (*)
61
34
--
5

1998 Jan 24-25
61
33
--
6

1998 Jan 23-24
60
35
--
5

(all data from the Gallup organization)

Now if you're going to run poll numbers...and isn't it a bit too soon to start running those past most of us with very red asses from believing the numbers we saw last Tuesday?...I'd bet Hillary doesn't do as well in the states that made a difference last Tuesday and I wouldn't dare want to venture into the real Red states.

If you think the Wingnut lie and hate machine went after Kerry or even Bill, they're spoiling for Hillary. She's a Repugnican fundraisers greatest dream, hate radio talkers wettest dream and the cable newswhores will run and rerun every wart they find about her.

Right now I'm looking 2006...we have some serious work to be done there. We have to start winning House and Senate seats even to think about having a chance in 2008. Time to really start thinking locally....and put those poll numbers where your Zogby don't shine :evilgrin:

not quite sure what this is - National? NY?

She is quite good. I spend a lot of time in upstate NY, and I think people would be quite surprised at how rural conservative voters react to her. Politically, her outreach to her state is one of the best I've ever seen.

Not Hill, not Dean, not Lieberman, none of em. They have all the apparatus in place to put in their favorite puppets and they won't let it occur.

the only thing that would soil the sheets worse is a Dean candidacy...

on a national basis... You're talking in the 40s already before the Republican machine can twist and turn her into pulp. Most Senators or governors on a national basis are unknown and have a lot lower unfavorables. Look at Kerry before he was nominated, he ended up having a higher unfavorable than * by the time the campaign was ended, and that certainly wasn't the case before '04 since he wasn't widely known.

Why don't you go to Adlai Stevenson's tomb and pop him out just for 'old time's sakes'?

If they bring out sexist arguments against her, it'll kill them amongst female voters. It'll shore up the male chauvanist vote, but they're never going to vote Democratic anyway.

and I don't really want her, either. That way, someone named Bush or Clinton will have been our president for at least 24 years.
Not for me, man.

Again--the smack talking about the Clintons is just that until someone else wins elections like they do.

Do I think she could win southern states? I don't know. A lot depends on the next three or so years. I know her husband won them, and I know he'd be out campaigning for her.

She has no exec. experience--but people are acting like that matters. Arnold Schwarzennegger anyone?

i'm a southerner and i have met lots of bubbas in my life and hrc is not a bubba...

bill had magic... you can't give it to someone else...


hillary is about as southern as latte...

IT ain't gonna happen

(except for Sharpton) started with unfavorables in the 20s at the highest.

A reason Gore probably didn't run was because he must have had an unfavorable of about 38-42.

Most people had never heard of before.

Hillary has been a national figure for 12 years, its only natural that she would have negatives as high as they are because everyone has an opinion about her.

There's no mud left to find on Hillary, she's a known quantity.

...(afterall, she's been a perfect senator and is now at 38) and I can see her moving much higher.

I will shoot myself.

How many times can they beat the Vince Foster drum?

I just think she's too much of a lightening rod out of the gate.

She is that polarizing and controversial a figure.

we still would have the coasts but PA and WI would go red... Perhaps MI...


Hillary Clinton is a person of destiny... She's destined never to be president...

I want the DLC and it's Republican-lite agenda to die.

Party members I convinced to vote for Kerry have told me they would never vote for Hillary. If the game plan is to get more dem voters to the poll then she may get elected, but she won't get cross over votes, unless Bill is running as VP.