Hillary Clinton Leads Democratic pack for 2016, Would Beat Chris Christie Head-to-Head (47-41%)

Daily Mail UK ^ | 13:52 EST, 24 July 2013 | By David Martosko In Washington

[drewh]

The next presidential election is more than three years away, but early polling shows Hillary Rodham Clinton leading the Democratic pack by a landslide margin, with a whopping 63 per cent of Democrats telling pollsters that they would vote for the former first lady and Secretary of State.

Vice President Joe Biden came in second with 13 per cent support - barely one-fifth of Clinton's showing.

The GOP field is anyone's game, however, with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie only garnering 15 per cent support among Republicans to narrowly lead the pack. He's followed by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz - all clustered within 8 percentage points. Clinton would beat Christie in a head-to-head matchup, the pollsters found, with 47 per cent favoring the former first lady and 41 per cent choosing Christie. She polls even better against Jeb Bush, with an 8-point margin, and against both Rubio and Paul, with a 12-point spread.

The McClatchy-Marist Poll surveyed 1,204 adults between July 15 and July 18. Eighty-one per cent of them are registered voters.

'Get ready for round two of Hillary Clinton as the inevitable,' Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, said in a statement.

Other Democrats in the poll, scraping the bottom of the barrel, included New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who polled 6 per cent and 1 per cent, respectively.

[DaxtonBrown]

Maybe we should just run Chris Clinton, the fat old Lesbian combination you get when you mix Hillary and Christie together?

I think Hillary is gonna be mighty long in the tooth by 2016.

[SunkenCiv]

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  I, for one, am for immigration reform. … That being said, I’m worried that the bill before us won’t pass.... [Rand Paul: I hate to say it, but the immigration bill is a little bit like ObamaCare right now ]

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  [Paul open to voting for Senate immigration bill]

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  Latinos, should be a natural constituency for the party, Paul argued, but "Republicans have pushed them away with harsh rhetoric over immigration." ...he would create a bipartisan panel to determine how many visas should be granted for workers already in the United States and those who might follow... [and the buried lead] "Imagine 12 million people who are already here coming out of the shadows to become new taxpayers... [Rand Paul calls on conservatives to embrace immigration reform]

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• ...by softening its edge on some volatile social issues and altering its image as the party always seemingly "eager to go to war... We do need to expand the party and grow the party and that does mean that we don't always all agree on every issue" ... the party needs to become more welcoming to individuals who disagree with basic Republican doctrine on emotional social issues such as gay marriage... "We're going to have to be a little hands off on some of these issues ... and get people into the party," Paul said. [Rand Paul: Time for GOP to soften war stance]

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  One day after announcing on his radio show that he is "truly considering" running in 2014 for the U.S. Senate seat now held by New Jersey's Frank Lautenberg, Rivera amped up his message today in a television interview and a column on the Fox News Latino website... a moderate Republican who is fiscally conservative but also supports gay marriage and Roe v. Wade... [Geraldo Rivera declares himself a 'moderate Republican' as he eyes U.S. Senate run]

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[arthurus]

Will they step forward in time?

It is already too late. Anyonê who has a chance at the Republican nomination has been running hard with the fat cats for two election cycles already and has been doing things and putting out markers for a similar length of time. There is only one who has been visibly doing that and it is Jeb Bush. Sarah Palin could be one, I don't know if she has been amassing funds and IOUs. She will be opposed vehemently by the Republican Party and by too many conservatives if she is running. Jeb Bush is the one whose Turn it is to win the nomination and throw the election.

[SunkenCiv]

Iowa Poll: Hillary Clinton, Chris Christie Tied (41-41%)
Politico | 7/22/13 7:24 EDT | By TAL KOPAN
Posted on 07/22/2013 5:22:36 PM PDT by drewh
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3046093/posts

[RKBA Democrat]

“Odds are there will be no 2016 election.”

Sure there will be. And it’ll be just like every other election: the uniparty will win in a landslide.

[NonValueAdded]

Well, she could outrun him, that’s for sure.

[MarkRegal05]

I get nauseated at the idea of her (or any other radical, for that matter) picking Scalia or Thomas’ replacement. It’d be pretty devastating.

[DoughtyOne]

Well...

I liked it. You’ve pretty much laid it out there. I can’t argue with it.

There you have it Conservatives. Enjoy...

[Idaho_Cowboy]

Hang on to your hats my FRiends; and when the time comes that they offer the “but he's the only on who has a chance of being electable in the polls” kool aid just say no.

[dfwgator]

Yep, I was a sucker during the Romney campaign, never again.

[Stentor]

Why don’t the people raise the Rothschild’s to be monarchs over the US without the ugly, rapacious and declasse middle men and women. Save us all a lot of wear and tear in the descent into feudalism.

[laplata]

I get nauseated at the idea of her (or any other radical, for that matter) picking Scalia or Thomas’ replacement. It’d be pretty devastating.

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Oh, you’re right—it would be an absolute disaster.

Hitlery is as evil as Obama.

Even if we had a good conservative president in 2016, it wouldn’t matter because it’s too late to fix this mess and by 2016 we don’t want to imagine.........

[sport]

Hillary is every bit as evil as Obama. The difference is Hilary is evil and not very smart[intelligent. Obama is both evil and intelligent. obama is the more dangerous of the two. On her on Hillary has accomplished nothing in either her political or professional career. Obama accomplished in less than a year what the Clintons could not get done in 8 years socialized medicine.

[unixfox]

Who says either will even be alive?

[Old Yeller]

She should be serving a life term in federal penitentiary

[ObozoMustGo2012]

Hmmm... looks a nipply in there..

[laplata]

Good points, sport.

[leprechaun9]

Look at the polls from January 2007 until September 2007, Hitlery had big lead against the other Democraps, Edwards et al.

However, magically CZAR B.O. overtook her and stampeded the UNBEATABLE HITLERY!

[LibLieSlayer]

No campaigning poll... put her fat a$$ up against a real Conservative firebrand that will look her in the eye and tell her who and what she is and how the hell she did it... and she will fold like a house of cards. She is a drunk, lesbian hag... FIRED from the Watergate Commission due to biased and outrageously partisan violations of Civil Rights. She tried to deny Nixon legal representation. She is dirty going back many years and Benghazi... she cannot shrill her way out of that during a debate. If she plays the “I am a woman and he attacked my poor little defenseless self” game... one could respond, “Madam, you were the Secretary of State for the United States for four years, you were co-President for 8 years... I think you know that you are on the biggest stage of all. This is the Big League Mrs. Clinton... not the minors.

LLS

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Other Democrats in the poll, scraping the bottom of the barrel, included New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, who polled 6 per cent and 1 per cent, respectively.

Gee, I wonder why. #guncontrol

Maryland "Freak State" PING!