Hillary Clinton shakes off shots, still leads poll

New York Daily News ^ | November 4, 2007 | Celestle Katz

[Zakeet]

Hillary Clinton may have taken some body blows during last week's Democratic debate, but Democrats still peg her as their top White House pick, a new poll finds.

Both Barack Obama and John Edwards unloaded on Clinton during the Oct. 30 debate, intensely questioning both her character and her willingness to provide straight answers on issues like Gov. Spitzer's controversial plan to give illegal immigrants driver's licenses.

But the barrage from Clinton's top Democratic opponents seemingly had little influence on the strength of the New York senator's support.

Clinton pulled 44% of Democrats in a Newsweek survey conducted after the debate aired, versus 24% for Obama and 12% for Edwards.

Clinton continues to lead among both male and female Democrats, but she attracts less support from independent voters than either Edwards, a former North Carolina senator, or Obama, an Illinois senator.

In a theoretical matchup against former senator and actor Fred Thompson, for example, Clinton gets 47% of the independent vote, while Edwards gets 57% and Obama gets 56%.

Former mayor Rudy Giuliani remains solidly ahead of his rivals for the Republican nomination, pulling 30% of the GOP vote, the poll found.

[Zakeet]

Reader Alert: Bear in mind it's a Newsweak Poll for whatever that's worth."

[Piquaboy]

I am pretty sure she is quite acqainted with body blows.

[crazydad]

That should be the clash of the titans poster with old harry hamlin holding Hildusas head...

[RC2]

We need four hour debates between Rudy, Hucklebee, Thompson, Hillary, Obama and Edwards. Just watching debates between Democrats and/or Republicans doesn’t give the people a sense of how the candidates would handle different situations. As it stands now, the debates are useless when the candidates continue to pander to each other. This country is changing and so should our debates.

[mikrofon]

Body blows from featherweights on an established heavyweight usually don’t amount to much...

[ballplayer]

No surprise there ,just proves the Democrats are running a scam primary campaign. The people who vote in primaries are the far left whackos and they know what the Hildabeast really stands for SOCIALISM ,OPEN BORDERS CONFISCATORY TAX RATES, CHILDREN SUEING THEIR PARENTS ,TAXPAYER FUNDED ABORTIONS.....,they give her the pass because they know she is with them.

[upchuck]

I’ll hazard a guess that 99% of the American public doesn’t even know the debate took place, let alone that The Hildabeaste stumbled a little.

[Mr Apple]

google: Clinton National Security Scandal and Coverup

Fred in '08.