Who Are Voters Ruling Out Most? USA TODAY/Gallup Poll

[Quixote1818]

Who Are Voters Ruling Out Most?
By Jill Lawrence,
USA Today
Posted: 2007-11-08 18:37:29
Filed Under: Elections News
(Nov. 8) - More than eight in 10 Republicans and more than half the married men in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll say they definitely wouldn't vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton for president.

The poll provides an early snapshot of who's ruling out Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama, the three leading candidates for the Democratic nomination.

Clinton, who tops national polls of Democrats, is strongest within her party. Only 10% of Democrats said they'd rule her out; nearly three times as many said they wouldn't vote for Edwards.

The new poll found that Clinton would defeat the leading Republican, Rudy Giuliani, in a hypothetical matchup. Still, some Democrats wonder whether she's potentially unelectable or a drag on candidates lower on the ballot, and rivals such as Edwards say they're better bets.

In a general election, the poll suggests that Clinton has the least potential for winning votes from Republicans - 84% say they definitely would not vote for her, compared with six in 10 for either Obama or Edwards. Independents show the least resistance to Obama and the most to Edwards.


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[Double T]

1. HRC has peaked and there is nowhere else for her to go.

I believe the next POTUS will be a dark horse that comes on strong in the end.

[aquart]

3. Slept thru arithmetic?

[Double T]

5. No, and I was wide awake for subtraction and SPECIALLY............

'division'.

[cuke]

9. So you missed addition and multiplication

When all you got is division, everyone looks like a divider

[aquart]

2. Twenty percent of Republicans would vote for Hillary?

Shit. We win.

72 million registered Dems
55 million registered Reps
42 million registered inds

Correct my math, but it looks like we get 11,000,000 Republicans. Which leaves the Republicans with only 44 million registered voters.

72 million plus 11 million equals 83 million votes

Which means the Republicans would have to get 40 million independent voters to beat us. Except if only two million independents plus the 11 million Republicans vote for us, WE STILL WIN.

Wow. ALL THE DEMOCRATS HAVE TO DO IS SHOW UP, VOTE, AND MAKE SURE OUR VOTES ARE COUNTED. Then we win.

[CitizenLeft]

8. that kind of leaped out at me too

And I heard - can't remember where or when, but it was last week on one of the pundit shows - that 19% of republican women are considering Hillary Clinton. I said, "whoa."

[kelligesq]

10. Those figures add up unless they're on electronic voting machines n/t

.

[rinsd]

4. So Edwards does not do well with Indies and he has nearly 30% of Dems against him?

Can someone explain why he is the most electable to me?

:shrug:

[OHdem10]

6. You refused to be manipulated by the Media who have done

everthing they could to sink him.

[Rydz777]

7. The Electoral College chooses the POTUS. Such polls are

fun to analyze but meaningless unless the vote is considered state by state. The Democratic candidate will carry the western states, upper midwest, mountain west, New England and mid-Atlantic, and a couple of other states usually considered Republican = enough electoral votes to win by a good margin.

[Drunken Irishman]

11. The EC actually scares me with Clinton more than the popular vote.

I think it's possible for Hillary to win both, but she needs to take at least Ohio or Florida to stand a chance. Can she flip either state?