Hillary more popular than Obama, Quinnipiac Poll says
Hillary Clinton more popular than President Obama and just about everybody else in politics, according to new Quinnipiac poll.
Hillary more popular than Obama, Quinnipiac Poll says
Thomas Fitzgerald, Inquirer Politics Writer
Hillary Clinton would have loved to get this news in 2008, when she was battling Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.
Clinton, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state, is now more popular with American voters than the president, according to a Quinnipiac University national poll released Friday. She has a favorability rating of 61 percent positive/34 percent negative (+27), while Obama sits at 51 percent/46 percent (+5).
Ouch.
The independent poll also finds that Obama’s job approval rating has also plummeted as the glow of his solid reelection victory fades. His approval stands at break-even, with 46 percent approving to 45 percent disapproving of how he is handling the presidency. That’s down from a 53-40 percent approval ratio in Quinnipiac’s December survey.
“Hillary Clinton ends her term as Secretary of State and the bruising inquiry into the Benghazi murders as easily the most popular actor on the American political stage today,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
“After an initial burst of reelection enthusiasm for President Barack Obama, we may be seeing a return to the age of the polarized electorate,” Brown said.
The poll found that Clinton outstrips Vice President Biden, a potential rival in the 2016 Democratic presidential race, as well as a series of leading national GOP figures. Full results are available here.
From January 30 – February 4, Quinnipiac University surveyed 1,772 registered voters with a margin-of-error of +/- 2.3 percentage points. Live interviewers called land lines and cell phones.
Obama and Hillary did nothing. That is what President Barack Obama did on the night of September 11, 2012, as terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and killed four Americans, among them Ambassador Christopher Stevens. President Obama’s inaction was revealed in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday by outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey.
Under direct questioning by Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), Panetta admitted that he had no communication with President Obama after their “pre-scheduled” meeting at 5:00 p.m. EDT. The attack on the consulate had already been under way for 90 minutes at that time. Neither the president nor anyone else from the White House called afterwards to check what was happening; the Commander-in-Chief had left it “up to us,” said Panetta.
Panetta’s testimony directly contradicts President Obama’s own claim to have issued “three direectives” as soon as he learned “what was going on” in Benghazi. As he told a Denver reporter in October:
I gave three very clear directives. Number one, make sure we are securing our personnel and that we are doing whatever we need to. Number two, we are going to investigate exactly what happened and make sure it doesn't happen again. Number three, find out who did this so we can bring them to justice.
That same claim was subsequently repeated by other Democrats, including Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, who came to the president’s defense. But if those directives were indeed given--and proof has never been produced--they were given long after the attack, not while the attack was going on, during which time the president did nothing.— PotterPete- This comment has been deleted. — johndallasbowerzbarn
- Dear JohnDallas aka MasterBaiter - WRONG...Everyone cares which is one of the reasons Obama's rating are collapsing!
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/institutes-centers/polling-institute/national/release-detail/?ReleaseID=1849— Professor1982 - This comment has been deleted. — johndallasbowerzbarn
- The fact that johndallasbowerzbarn cannot make more than 2 posts without resorting to childish name calling tells us all we need to know about how seriously we should consider his opinion. How long until he is banned again?
— jfar86 - No one cares except Fox News and its zombies, and even they don't care that much since their attempt to effect the election by smearing Obama with this failed. — carl and sons
- Childish name calling aside, that's not me. I didn't write that drivel. — PotteryPete
Keep throwing stuff at the wall, Pete.— wokmaster- Woky, Pete is correct and references qualified facts and figures as proof.
What do you and the left have but the first Ambassador assassinated in over 30 yrs?
This is an Administration that did nothing that evening to assist, ignored warnings and then tried to cover it up by throwing that hack Rice out there to try a lie about it.
— Professor1982 - That’s akin to leporcy being more popular than the bubonic plague....(facetiously so loosen-up).— STEPHEN1988
- Hillary is more popular than Obama. For me that is like a head cold being more popular than the flu.— retdetvet
- johndallasbowerzbarn your hypocrisy is over the top... Not sure if you have the ability to remember that far back but everything was Bush's fault and you you your ilk were all Waaaaa'ing. Now America is holding "Your" President and "Your" Secretary of State responsible and you have changed your song and dance routine. It would be really funny if it wasn't so pathetic. You have succeeded in one thing and that is showing exactly what a Tool you really are.— CA Scum
- This comment has been deleted. — johndallasbowerzbarn
- No they do care and that is part of what makes you so pathetic. Really, nobody cares? You are wrong and I'm embarrassed that you call yourself an American. — CA Scum
- Obama is the best King we ever had !! Get it through your heads, haha— Retired guy22
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