How do People in Your Area Feel About Hillary Clinton?

[Barack_America]

Poll question: How do People in Your Area Feel About Hillary Clinton?

This is a poll that I've been wanting to do for weeks. I'd like to get a general sense whether people in various parts of the country would or would not support Hillary in a General Election (not just primaries).

ETA: If any of you are looking for a hypothetical opponent, let's say McCain (considering he seems the most likely right now)

Thanks for participating.

[wyldwolf]

1. I don't think DUers have their fingers on the pulse of their geographical area

[Barack_America]

3. Really? They don't talk to people and read their local newspapers?

I think that I have a pretty good idea of the sentiment in my area.

[wyldwolf]

20. they talk to their social circles

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. Exactly

They talk to people who think just like them and when they get their own views shouted back at them they consequently think everybody thinks like them...

[Barack_America]

32. They don't read editorials in their local newspaper or watch their local news?

Interesting.

[rinsd]

21. Many DUers claim to know no one who likes Hillary or will vote for her.

On edit: see post # 9.

Here is the most recent polling for CA (I'm not saying Hillary will win but this shows she obviously has some support).

Poll	       Date	   Sample	Clinton	Obama	Edwards	Spread
RCP Average	01/11 - 01/20	-	43.5	31.5	10.5	Clinton +12.0
Field	        01/14 - 01/20	377 LV	39	27	10	Clinton +12.0
Rasmussen	01/14 - 01/14	897 LV	38	33	12	Clinton +5.0
Polit/CNN/LAT	01/11 - 01/13	384 LV	47	31	10	Clinton +16.0
SurveyUSA	01/11 - 01/13	810 LV	50	35	10	Clinton +15.0

DUers are not rank & file Democrats and rarely are good predictors for support amongst the party or electorate.

[Barack_America]

25. Well, I do know ONE.

That's something, right?

[TwilightZone]

6. Agreed.

[rucky]

14. Some of us really do have contact with the outside world.

I know this because I read it in a blog somewhere.

[Name removed]

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[mtnsnake]

28. No kidding. There has never been a poll about Hillary that's been accurate yet & there never will be

[Barack_America]

35. I was wondering how y'all keep dismissing Hillary's electability problem...

...Thanks for pointing this out to me.

[Alexander]

39. Yep, every poll is bullshit until it says something good about Hillary.

:rofl:

You're great, mtnsnake. I needed a laugh this morning.

[mtnsnake]

40. glad to oblige

[jefferson_dem]

44. What sort of reaction would you get if you simply stood on a streetcorner in your neighborhood...

with a "Hillary for President" campaign sign?

[Debi]

2. I live in Iowa....remember the Caucuses?

:think:

[TwilightZone]

4. I hope that you don't think that this is going to be indicative of anything.

DUers tend to think that their own personal worldviews are indicative of their communities, states, regions, and the entire country. Hence, the common "nobody I know likes Obama/Edwards/Clinton, so he/she can't possibly win!" posts.

Let's just say that many DUers are a source significantly more biased than most.

[Barack_America]

8. Let's see what it says first.... n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

5. I live in the far northwest (Alaska)

and she is generally not liked here and never has been.

[Barack_America]

7. Thanks, and I'm sorry... I only had 10 slots, so I couldn't break the country down enough. n/t

[Blue_In_AK]

13. That's okay.

Alaska often gets left out of polls - we're used to it.

[Hepburn]

9. I am on the West Coast, Southern Calif....

...and have a lot of liberal friends. To a one, no one supports her. We are about evenly split between Edwards and Obama and most will likely vote for Hillary if she is the nominee, but no one I know of is supporting her and most dislike her a great deal. I frankly cannot stand her and could not stand her when she was First Lady...and I hope to hell us Dems are smart enough to NOT put her at the head of the ticket. That IMO spells disaster for sure.

JMHO

[Barack_America]

10. Hey thanks...

And sorry I didn't have enough room to further break it down into West Coast, Northeast, etc.

[Hepburn]

17. No prob.....

....and the only reason I mentioned where I was from is that Southern California is a really big area in and of itself.

Lots of liberals around here...and none of us like Hillary.

[Kucinich4America]

23. The other end of the West Coast feels the same way.

I don't know a single person in Washington state who will be voting for Hillary in the caucus. Probably would have been a great Kucinich turnout in my precinct. 2004 ended up being pretty much a three way Dean/Kerry/Kucinich split. I expect it will be mostly Edwards/Obama this time, now that Dennis is out :(

[Radical Activist]

30. Its really amazing.

Its amazing that Hillary has so much support in national polls but its so difficult to find active Democrats who actually like her. I think her support in polls must be coming from people who aren't very involved in the party or issue groups.

[Raine]

49. Same here, I'm in So Cal

along the coast of Los Angeles County in the South Bay and the people here that I know despise her. People that I know will not vote for her no matter what, they'll leave the spot blank rather than to vote for her.

[Big Blue Marble]

11. I live in the South.

If Hillary's the candidate, my state's going red.
I will not vote for her. I will not vote for the Repuke either.
It will not matter whom I vote for cause my states going to be in the Republican column.

Obama could swing us blue. We just elected a Democratic governor.
With Hill on the ticket, it' not going to happen.

[rucky]

12. They love her or they hate her. No middle ground.

Ohio.

[rox63]

16. I think people in my area would support her, even if I don't

And yes, I will vote for her in the GE if she's the nominee.

[cosmik debris]

18. I don't know anyone in Texas who likes her.

But apparently there are some who do.

[cali]

19. I live in Vermont and she's not terribly popular here

But Vermonters will vote for her if she's the nominee. She likely won't win the primary on March 4.

[forsberg]

22. she'll win vermont just like she won NH

[cali]

27. um, no. I live here. do you?

Leahy and Welch have both supported him, and he's raised over 10x what she has here. If you think VT is simply an upside down NH, you know very little about this state.

[Radical Activist]

26. She has no appeal in the Midwest.

Her third place finish in Iowa was no surprise and its a sign of how badly she'll do in the region. The only active Democrats I know who are supporting her are women voting based on her gender. There are only so many strong feminists who are also willing to overlook her record on the war and other issues. That doesn't win elections.
Hillary is a coastal candidate. We might as well give up on the South and Midwest if she's the nominee.

[Barack_America]

29. It's sort of looking that way, isn't it...

It's always been my impression that she had not a chance in either the South or the Midwest. I set up this poll to test my assumptions.

Super Tuesday is going to be interesting. They're only seriously polling the coastal states. How the Midwest and South are leaning is still a mystery.

[CTyankee]

31. CT is going bigtime for HRC. Not that it matters because our state is so little.

Spouse works at City Hall in New Haven. Our mayor is supporting Obama. My spouse is supporting HRC. Our Atty General, Dick Blumenthal, a really good guy, just came out for HRC. Turns out he and the Clintons were at Yale Law School together. Dick is a talented man, a very strong defender of reproductive rights (he and his wife serve on Planned Parenthood of CT's Greenwich event committee). If HRC is president I wouldn't be surprised if she tapped him to serve in her administration in some capacity. I've heard he really wants to be a judge. He turned down the chance to run for Governor. Too bad, I think he would have won but we're stuck with Mother Rell, a Republican.

[Radical Activist]

37. That's where I would expect her to do well.

If she could run for President of the northeast region of the US then I'm sure she would win easily.

[Barack_America]

38. But only the Northeast matters in this country...didn't you get the memo? lol n/t

[Radical Activist]

47. That's what the media thinks.

If she's popular in New York City and Washington DC circles then she must be wildly popular all across America, right?

[ZinZen]

33. It's not an either/or here in CA

I have spoken with people who vote for Hillary and others who will vote for Obama. It was nice that the Modesto Bee endorsed Obama. I thought it would be a shoo in for Hillary.

[stray cat]

34. in NY and people might vote for her if they absolutely had to.....

Competent but not trusted or liked.

[Barack_America]

36. Upstate, by chance? n/t

[lisainmilo]

41. I live in a red state and I am surrounded literally by Mc Cain supporters

:puke:

[Barack_America]

43. Would you mind stating which state?

Thanks.

And do they dislike Hillary or just like McCain more?

[emilyg]

42. South

My immediate neighborhood has Hillary and Ron Paul signs

[goldcanyonaz]

45. Arizona here, and Clinton is quite popular.

Poll: Clinton and McCain well ahead in Arizona

On the Democratic side, Clinton claimed 45 percent of the voters polled, putting her well ahead of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, who drew just 24 percent. Obama gained little ground since the last poll, even after winning the endorsement of Gov. Janet Napolitano.


http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/president/articles/0123elect-poll0123.html

[Radical Activist]

48. oops

A new poll shows it much closer. It continues the trend. When people get to know Obama better he goes up in the polls and Clinton goes down.

[Beacool]

46. I live in northern NJ (across the river from Manhattan).

Hillary is very popular here and will not have any problems on Feb. 5th carrying the state.