While she is winning wide support in nationwide samples among Democrats in the race for their party’s presidential nomination, half of likely voters nationwide said they would never vote for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, a new Zogby Interactive poll shows.
The online survey of 9,718 likely voters nationwide showed that 50% said Clinton would never get their presidential vote. This is up from 46% who said they could never vote for Clinton in a Zogby International telephone survey conducted in early March. Older voters are most resistant to Clinton – 59% of those age 65 and older said they would never vote for the New York senator, but she is much more acceptable to younger voters: 42% of those age 18–29 said they would never vote for Clinton for President.
Nationwide “samples” don’t mean a damned thing. Your opinion about Bill Clinton’s wife is meaningless unless you vote. And close to half of you don’t - ever - so why anybody pays attention to what you “think” is beyond me.
Likely voters are much more predictive of electoral outcomes than general polls, or even polls of registered voters. What’s worse for the female Clinton is that those likely voters who say they will never vote for her is rising, not falling, and this in the face of her determined effort to remake herself as a warm and likable person.
Yet I don’t see any way she and her husband won’t be the Democratic candidate for president in 2008.
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Depend a lot on who the GOP nominates. For the first time since I was old enough to vote..and I am 65..I am seriously considering not marking the ballot for a presidential candidate unless there is a “none of the above” option. If the GOP nominates another Rino such as Rudy or Romney I know that is what I will do. If the Clintons win by default because so many of us vote with our feet so be it..what the hell..they are no worse than the current bunch of RINOs and if the country is not strong enough to survive another round of Clintons it is not strong enough to survive another round of RINOs.
Then there is that possibility that a few more years of the Clintons’ left wing bull shit is what the country needs to bring it to its senses. Sometimes a country has to hit bottom before it can begin the crawl back up..and Hilary no doubt will take us damn close to the bottom