Fox Poll: Hillary Trails All Republicans, Remains Strong Democratic Favorite

Townhall ^ | 10/15/2015 | Guy Benson

[SeekAndFind]

Swing state polling data released last week showed Hillary Clinton faring worse against top Republicans in hypothetical general election match-ups than Joe Biden. Fox News' fresh national numbers confirm that effect. Though Mrs. Clinton's advantage among Democrats has surged back to a 20-point margin -- leading Bernie Sanders, followed by Joe Biden -- it appears she'd be a weaker nominee than the sitting Vice President.  First, Her Majesty's numbers:

And Uncle Joe's:



Clinton trails all four Republicans polled -- by between three and 11 points.  Biden, by contrast, handily beats Trump, holds modest edges over Bush, Fiorina and Carson, and is effectively tied with Marco Rubio.  Strangely, Fox doesn't appear to have polled a Rubio/Clinton head-to-head.  Based on the other results, it would follow that the Florida Senator also enjoys a polling advantage over the former Secretary of State.  What's behind Hillary's anemic showing?  Weak fundamentals.  Many rounds of polling show that she enjoys universal name recognition, but scores poorly on favorability, trustworthiness and empathy. She's also almost unanimously perceived as a 'meh' candidate at best, even by those who populate her political orbit:

Nearly every one of 50 advisers, donors, Democratic operatives and friends we interviewed for this story thought Clinton was a mediocre candidate who would make a good president, if given the chance. They painted a portrait of a politician who talked about learning from past mistakes while methodically repeating them—a far cry from the formidable shatterer of glass ceilings who had put such a scare into Obama late in the 2008 primaries.

That snippet comes from a much-discussed Politico piece making the rounds this week that describes Clinton's entrenched, unending email scandal as a "cancer" growing on her candidacy.  The entire episode paints Hillary as myopically self-interested, habitually dishonest and strikingly irresponsible.  These liabilities are not easily overcome, especially by someone with an infamous authenticity deficit. And don't take my word for it:

.@HillaryClinton is "on like double secret, super probation here when it comes to inauthenticity" says @davidaxelrod http://t.co/qeknt17NgZ— The Weekly Standard (@weeklystandard) October 13, 2015

On the Republican side, Donald Trump and Ben Carson are statistically deadlocked atop the field, attracting 47 percent of the GOP electorate combined. Mirroring the latest CBS survey, Ted Cruz has pulled into third place at ten percent, with Rubio and Bush close behind.  Notably, Carly Fiorina has slid to five percent support, while John Kasich and Chris Christie are floundering at one percent, tied with Bobby Jindal and George Pataki. Parting thought: Is Lanny Davis right that Joe Biden's standing is likely already at its zenith as an undeclared candidate?  Or does he have big upside that could threaten Hillary's grip on her party's crown?

[WENDLE]

Trump will whip her bad.

[SeekAndFind]

[FlingWingFlyer]

Either the Democrats don’t care about Clinton’s cover ups or they don’t care about America. Probably both.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Trump will whip her bad.

The polls tell us that Biden does the best against every Republican.

[Boardwalk]

She doesn’t look good just in general.

[wattsgnu]

Strange how Cruz has moved up to third place in polling, but they don’t poll him against the dimocrats

[nascarnation]

Caliph Baraq proved in 2012 that you can now win an election in the US with a terrible record if you dispense enough gravy. It was obvious during the “debate” this week that the Dem candidates (except Webb who is irrelevant) were falling over each other promising gravy.

Free college, free medical care, free lunches, free food stamps, free housing, free, free, free...

[Insigne123]

Well, good for her. Are Trump’s people secretly funding her for entertainment purposes? She’s his best foil next to Bernie for media attention. He’s going to miss her if she ever drops out

[Boardwalk]

Free to the tune of 18 trillion totally low ball number btw!

[nascarnation]

The sad part is that when the markets inevitably start puking up the fake money and TSHTF, the MSM will scream

BUSH’S FAULT!!!!

[C210N]

Strange how Cruz has moved up to third place in polling, but they don’t poll him against the dimocrats...

Just a random, inadvertent, unplanned, accidental, arbitrary, fluky choice, really. Could happen to any push poll operation.

[WENDLE]

Biden is a total clown. The videos on this guy make the three stooges look serious.

[TexasFreeper2009]

The media strategy for dealing with Cruz has been to try to ignore him, since trying to win a debate with him is futile.

But the incredible strength of Trump is making that a non-issue.

Trump is going to win this massively and quickly unless something unimaginably big disrupts the entire race.

[dowcaet]

So tired of all the lefty vomit being spewed out there over Hillary’s “commanding” performance in the debate. Really? Kinda hard not be charismatic in a crowd of losers like Comrade Sanders, Dufus O’Malley, Humorless Jim Webb, and Clueless Lincoln Chaffee.

[SmokingJoe]

They will when he stays at 3rd consistently in subsequent polls.

[goodolemr]

Yep. She only had token opposition and the biggest reason to go with another Dem, ethics, was taken off the table.

[Boardwalk]

Sanders Won that debate!

[4Runner]

Biden is a racist perv. Any of you old enough to remember how he treated Clarence Thomas during Justice Thomas’s senate confirmation hearing during Bush I? Biden was a junior senator at the time and was horrible to Clarence Thomas. Since then he has sharpened his skills as a pervert and dirty old man. Every time you see him he’s got his hands all over the nearest woman no matter who she is preferably while standing behind her (he must really dig that ass action) with his lips all over her ears and neck. This dysfunctional mofo makes LBJ look like a choir boy. Yeah typical Democrat presidential timber.

[4Runner]

CNN is presently GUSHING over a report that Biden’s “family” is encouraging him to step into the race.