Flashermac Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Poll: NYers think Hil will run for prez; won't back her 9 March 2006 ASSOCIATED PRESS ALBANY, N.Y. -- Six in 10 New York voters believe Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is planning to run for president in 2008, but only about a third of her home-state voters say they would back her if she did so, a statewide poll reported Thursday. Almost half of New York voters, including three of every 10 Democrats, said they would not vote for her for president, according to the poll from Siena College's Research Institute. The Siena findings mirror those reported by Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion in a January poll that found 59 percent of New York voters said they expect Clinton to run for president, but 62 percent said it was unlikely she could win. Clinton's prospects are brighter, however, when it comes to how New Yorkers feel about re-electing her this year to another six-year Senate term, according to the Siena poll. Fifty-seven percent of voters said they would vote to re-elect her while 38 percent said they would prefer someone else. The Siena poll found her leading one possible GOP challenger, former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, 57 percent to 32 percent. She led the little-known contender, 58 percent to 31 percent, in a January poll from the Albany area-based institute. Asked whether they had a favorable or unfavorable opinion of Spencer, 77 percent of voters said they didn't know enough about him to decide. Joseph Caruso, Siena's polling director, did note the former first lady's favorable rating in New York had slipped to 55 percent, down from 60 percent in January. "Republicans are firming up their opposition to the junior senator and it's starting to show," Caruso said. In fact, the state of the GOP's challenge to Clinton is in a state of uncertainty. For instance, the bulk of Siena's polling was conducted before former Pentagon official Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland announced on Monday she would also seek the GOP Senate nomination. She was not included in the polling. And, in December, former prosecutor Jeanine Pirro decided to quit the race for the GOP nomination after she failed to raise much money or interest in her campaign despite being endorsed by Republican Gov. George Pataki. The former Westchester County district attorney is now running for state attorney general. Spencer spokesman Christian Winthrop, noting Clinton's advantage had dropped from a 32-point lead in November to a 25-point margin in the new poll, said: "We're happy at the momentum of the campaign. We suspect that when more light shines on this race, John Spencer will continue to rise and Senator Clinton will continue to fall." On the presidential front, New Yorkers think more highly of Clinton than they do of Pataki. Thirty-seven percent of New York voters polled said they believed Pataki would run for president in 2008 and just 20 percent, including 30 percent of Republicans, said they would vote for him if he did. Pataki, recuperating from having his appendix removed last month, announced in July he would not seek a fourth, four-year term this year. He is eyeing a run for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination. Sixty percent of New York voters, including 67 percent of Republicans, said they believed Clinton would run for the White House while 36 percent -- 55 percent of Democrats, but 16 percent of Republicans -- said they would vote for her if she made such a run. Forty-eight percent said they would not support a Clinton-for-president effort. While Clinton leads national polls among potential 2008 Democratic presidential contenders, she has said she is thinking only about her re-election race and not a national race. If the 2008 presidential candidates happened to be Clinton and Pataki, New York voters would back the former first lady, 49 percent to 36 percent, the poll found. Siena's telephone poll of 620 registered voters was conducted March 1-7 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 4 percentage points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzzz Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 If we can have father and son presidents w/ the Bushes, why not mom and pop presidents w/ the Clintons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Just what the USA needs...NOT :: The Clintons have been on "political welfare" all their working lives. They only now own a house, after Bill left office. Have they ever driven a car or owned a car? I don't think so. They are completely out of touch with reality!!! IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Trailer trash ... from Illinois to Arkansas to DC to Noo Yawk. 12 years with a Bush in the White House and 8 with a Clinton. You mean to say these two families have a lock on the White House? p.s. Roger Clinton for Prez??? (Too bad Billy Carter died.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 I hate political dynastys, to "third world..." Though I think the Clintons are more in touch with the people than the Bush family... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 260,000,000 people in the USA and the Dems and Reps come up with these bozo's??? As The Doors said..."this is the end..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 the doors also said, "Love her madly" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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