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Posted on 08/03/2014 3:30:16 PM PDT by Plummz
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in a close contest against potential GOP rival, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul in a 2016 general election matchup in New Hampshire. Clinton has single-digit leads against New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, and Florida Senator Marco Rubio. She has a wider lead over Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Texas Senator Ted Cruz. But, only against Cruz is Clinton supported by more than 50% of New Hampshire voters. Clinton does better than each of her potential opponents among independent voters. The gender gap in all of these matchups is wide.
Clinton is well liked by a majority of New Hampshire residents owing to her strong standing among women. Vice President Biden has a higher negative rating than positive score among residents in the state.
New Hampshire residents give mixed reviews to Republicans Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Scott Walker. The ratings for Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and Ted Cruz are all upside down with more residents viewing them negatively than positively.
The morning line for the first-in-the-nation presidential primary has Hillary Clinton the overwhelming choice of Democrats over Joe Biden. Both Clinton and Biden are popular among most Democrats in the state.
On the Republican side, there is no clear choice among the potential 2016 New Hampshire Primary electorate for their party’s nominee. More than one in five GOP’ers are undecided, and only Rand Paul, Chris Christie, and Jeb Bush have low double-digit support. Each potential GOP contender is viewed more favorably than unfavorably by Republicans in the state. Rand Paul is the most popular among GOP voters.
“New Hampshire always gets a lot of attention because of its status as the first-in-the-nation primary and 2016 will be no exception,” says Dr. Lee M. Miringoff, Director of The Marist College Institute for Public Opinion. “It may be a frequent stopping off point for the general election, as well.”
Poll Points
-- Democrat Hillary Clinton is in a competitive contest against potential GOP rival Rand Paul, 46% to 43%. She has a narrow lead over Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, and Marco Rubio, 47% to 42%, in each instance. Clinton does better against Scott Walker, 48% to 39%, and Ted Cruz, 51% to 38%. -- Clinton is boosted by her support among independent voters and is backed by the majority of women in each matchup. --Statewide, 53%, of residents have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton including 60% of women. 42% of state residents have an unfavorable opinion of her. Biden is viewed positively by 39% of New Hampshire residents, but 48% have a negative opinion of him. -- Residents in the state divide about how they view several of the potential GOP candidates: Marco Rubio who has a 31% positive rating and a 28% negative score; Rand Paul who receives a favorable rating of 39% and an unfavorable score of 38%; and Scott Walker, with whom voters are least familiar, is liked by 24% of residents and disliked by 23%. -- Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, and Ted Cruz all have ratings that are upside down.
Dems: Clinton Strong Frontrunner
-- Hillary Clinton outpaces Joe Biden 74% to 18% among the potential New Hampshire Democratic Primary electorate for 2016. -- Most Democrats in the state, 94%, have a positive opinion of Clinton. Just 4% view her negatively. Joe Biden is also liked by most New Hampshire Democrats. 79% have a favorable view of him, and 14% have an unfavorable opinion of him.
GOP: No Pace Horse
-- 22% of the potential New Hampshire Republican Primary electorate are undecided in their preference for a 2016 GOP presidential nominee. Paul at 14%, Christie at 13%, and Bush at 10% are the only potential candidates who have double-digit support. -- The contest is no clearer when the potential Republican electorate is asked for a second choice. Rubio is the backup pick of 16%, Bush garners 13%, Christie and Paul each attract 12%, and Ryan is the second choice of 10%. -- 71% of state Republicans have a positive opinion of Rand Paul and only 15% have a negative impression of him. Although each of the potential GOP candidates are more popular than unpopular among New Hampshire Republicans, Paul has the highest favorability rating. A majority of state Republicans like Bush, 65%, Rubio, 58%, and Christie, 52%. 50% have a positive view of Cruz and Walker.
Good Lord, where was the knarf alert on this one ??
More like Marxist College.
Just another pissant libtard state trying to stay relevant . . .
NH is not a swing state Presidentially. It was a reliably GOP state from 1948 to 1988, with the lone exception of 1964. From 1992 to date it has been a reliably Democrat state, with the lone exception of 2000 (and that was accidental, since Nader took a key 4% from Gore, otherwise the state would’ve gone 51-48% for him instead of 48-47% for Dubya, as Kerry took it 50-49% in 2004). If it were to vote Republican in 2016, that would likely mean the GOP candidate wins nationally.
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In this one case and one case only I think Beckel is right...”Hillary will not run”.
NH is a solid ‘Rat state.
Willard carried only 3 out of 10 NH counties. If all the Libertarian votes had gone to him, it wouldn’t have mattered. Zero carried the state with 52%, 1% more than nationally. It frankly demonstrated how weak he was in New England when he could only carry 5 counties there in total (3 in NH, 1 in CT & 1 in ME — none in his beloved Massachusetts).
Also, of the 3 counties Willard won, only 1 of them was in the Southern 6-county tier (Rockingham). The other 2 were in the central-east, in Belknap & Carroll on the ME border. Belknap was his best county, and that by a subpar 51.85% and Carroll by 230 votes.
Zero took 6 of the remaining 7 counties by fairly wide margins (with Southwestern Cheshire going 61-37% for him followed by Grafton with the same rounded margin). Hillsborough was the sole county he won by just a plurality at 49.8%.
Just as a reference, the last time the counties went Republican are as follows:
Belknap - 2012 (last Dem 2008)
Carroll - 2012 (last Dem 2008)
Cheshire - 1988
Coos - 2000
Grafton - 1988
Hillsborough - 2004
Merrimack - 1988
Rockingham - 2012 (last Dem 2008)
Strafford - 1988
Sullivan - 2000
Forget all this, Red Hampshire is forever Democrat now.
The future of the party is neither the Pauls nor the Willards.
Sen. Paul is only three points from Hillary in this one. Seems doable.
Just for info I looked up the D primary 08.
39 Hillary
36 Baraq
17 John Hunter-Edwards
Never pronounce anywhere “forever” locked in, because things can change. Who would’ve thought after Watergate that AL, AR, LA, MS, et al, would be solid GOP today ? Same goes for countless formerly reliable GOP areas in the ‘80s. In 1988, even with Dukakis on the ballot, Bush, Sr. carried every NH county. 16 years later, the son could only get 4 out of 10 counties.
Look at WV, which was reliably Democrat from 1932 onwards (at least with the exception of some Republicans running for reelection). In 2000, it had had quite enough. Zero lost every county there in 2012, not even when WV was a GOP state from 1896-1928 did they pull off such a feat.
Move 50,000 committed Conservatives to NH (actually, you wouldn’t even need that many) and the state would go back to the GOP. Frankly, a lot should do precisely that and take back some of these smaller states. Tennessee is so top-heavy GOP now we’ve got more than we need.
Except the Willards and McCains are the problem. The party establishment (which is more comfortable with Democrats in charge and in the White House) hammered the base over the head that it was soooo important to nominate “moderates” (sic), because only they could win.
McCain did such a fantastic job that he did something unachievable by any GOP candidate in the modern era... he failed to carry a single county in NH in 2008. Even Goldwater managed to carry Carroll County in 1964 (the most stalwart pro-GOP county remaining) and Dole in 1996, McCain blew that one.
After these two RINO Socialist ringers in ‘08 & ‘12, it’s time we got back to nominating Conservatives again. I refused to vote for Willard in ‘12 (I voted for ex-Congressman Virgil Goode as the only Conservative on the ballot for President). The party will continue to perform poorly as long as it keeps putting up unprincipled lying left-wing losers. We must put up Ted Cruz in 2016. He’s the only sane candidate left who can pull us back from the brink.
DJ, “forever” was the wrong word. How about “for the forseeable future. New Englanders are too stubborn to admit they are wrong.
How do you assess Carr v. Lamar! I say Lamar! takes it by eight points.
I think a lot of the best and brightest from New England have voted with their feet since the 1980s and headed south to more sensible states that are managed well. Of course, Maine has one of the best Governors in the nation in Paul LePage (he’s precisely the type that should be fast-tracked to the Presidency, someone born in abject poverty, up from the bootstraps, no bullcrap). Sadly, the national party establishment just wants blue-blooded Socialist ringers, the most execrable and incompetent.
As for TN, I don’t even want to jinx it by making a prediction. I’m praying for a miracle this week in blasting that senile, lying liberal RINO out of office.
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