Hillary's Approval Rating Plummets In NBC/WSJ Poll

MSNBC:

As expected, one of the two major Democratic candidates saw a downturn in the latest NBC/WSJ poll, but it's not the candidate that you think. Hillary Clinton is sporting the lowest personal ratings of the campaign. Moreover, her 37% positive rating is the lowest the NBC/WSJ poll has recorded since March 2001, two months after she was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York.

The poll was conducted Monday and Tuesday this week by Hart-McInturff and surveyed 700 registered voters, which gives the poll a margin of error of +/- 3.7%. In addition, we oversampled African-Americans in order to get a more reliable cross-tab on many of the questions we asked in this poll regarding Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race and overall response to last week's Rev. Jeremiah Wright dustup.

Read the whole story: MSNBC

Comments

[SteveManz]

Hopefully Hillary's ratings will improve. Otherwise we will be stuck with a racist for a Democratic nominee.

Obama's 20+ year affiliation with racist Reverend Wright as his "spiritual adviser" sends chills down your back about what Barack thinks and says about people of other races in private. Now I understand why Obama's wife made those ungrateful remarks about multi-racial America.

Wright=Racism=Obama

[Exit]

Enjoy you time with McCain, Sean Hannity, and Rush Limbaugh after Hillary loses. Don't let the door hit ya on the way out.

[akatsuki]

Clueless much? You can try the Hillary/Rove soundbite strategy all you want, but it really doesn't work. Maybe you should actually pay attention to the context of the speech. Then maybe you should look at Hillary's pastor's comments absolving Wright of wrongdoing.

[SCG]

She had better hope this rancor and deceptiveness doesn't start to damage her in NY. Recent polls have her ahead of McCain 50% to 40% but Obama is 49% ahead to McCain's 38% showing she no longer holds a "home state advantage"

Quinnipiac University Poll March 21, 2008

Link:
http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1318.xml?ReleaseID=1161

[DoAsISay]

Steve, it is this attitude that has made her approval rating drop. Lie about sniper fire, and try to distract attention by giving an interview to a right wing editorial.

[Hotshortie]

Stop with the meaness! You know that Obama is a gentleman who is always when speaking about Hillary very respectful. He has been trying as hard as he can to run a clean campaign.
You know in your heart of hearts that Obama doesn't hold the same thoughts as Rev. Wright.
Obama is a deep thinker, he seems to be an old soul. He as many of us know, that older people hold views that are unlike our own. My dad was an Archie Bunker bigot. I loved my father but he was older and lived different experiences as I did. Some days he would say very racist, hateful things. It didn't mean I loved my father any less, it just meant, that I didn't agree with him. And when did Americans become such wussies that we can't handle debates. Why do we have to try to destroy Obama, just because he is ahead in the race. Also, I go to church an don't agree with my minister. No one thinks the same, we are individuals with seperate thoughts and minds.
United we stand, divided we fall!!!

[legalclubs]

I'm an Obama supporter (read my history is you don't believe me), however, the article states that:
"In addition, we oversampled African-Americans in order to get a more reliable cross-tab on many of the questions we asked in this poll regarding Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race and overall response to last week's Rev. Jeremiah Wright dustup. "
OK, the fact that this poll purposely "oversampled" one particular group, a group which is 80 to 90% in opposition to Hillary Clinton, is by definition a dishonest poll. You might as well "oversample" Rupublicans and I'd bet we could get a Hillary approval rating around 5%. The whole poll and article are dishonest and should be disregarded.

[rat]

Erm, you clearly have no idea what oversampling means... It's just a mechanism to allow more of a certain group into your study. That way, you will get more reliable answers to certain questions. In this case, you could get a better sense of the percentage of white people that supported Obama vs percentage of black people etc etc.

For the overall approval rating however, they would have adjusted to take the oversampling into account.

[DaTracer]

"The main sample for the survey was a cross section of 700 registered voters nationally. As is the case with all of our usual polls, this sample is statistically representative of voters across the country, accurately reflecting the gender, age, educational, geographical, and racial makeup of the electorate. The column in the topline document labeled “All Voters”, as well as nearly all of the subgroups listed in the survey crosstabs, are among these cross section of 700. Eleven percent (11%) of these interviews -- or 77 interviews -- were with African Americans, which accurately reflects African Americans’ proportion of the electorate. Thus, African Americans are NOT over-represented in our national sample.

In addition to this national cross section, we interviewed an extra 100 African Americans to analyze the opinions of this group with a greater degree of statistical reliability. We combined these 100 only with the 77 African Americans that naturally fell into our national sample, for a total of 177 interviews with African Americans; these extra interviews were not combined with the full national sample of 700. The column in the topline document labeled “African Americans” shows the responses of these 177 respondents, as do the subgroups in the crosstabs for African Americans, African-American men, and African-American women."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/27/827746.aspx

[simplecitizen]

How embarrasing for Hillary. Where is your pride? I admire your tenacity but not your devistation of the Democratic Party or your lies and half truths. It is interesting to watch as you develop a new math, not the one that says 2 and 2 equal 4 but the creative ways you are trying to make it come out your way. IT'S NO WONDER YOUR LIKEABILITY NUMBERS ARE PLUMMETING. Say what you want but Obama is smart, honest, likeable,fresh,new and offering new ideas for fixing the mess left by the Bush presidency. Hillary offers the same old, same old, tied into the power brokers, and the corporayte interests that run this country to fatten their wallets and suck the average American dry. I'll put my hopes and dreams in the election of Obama. He will not let us down. America for once vote your hopes and dreams and your childrens future. Obama YES WE CAN.

[ObamaEdwards]

It will be very healthy for the Clintons to fail and to work through what that means. They might even learn to be more honest, if their tricks and tactics don't work in this election.

[DoAsISay]

The Clintons so much about everything, but keep forgetting that when there are videos capturing everything they do, they have to stop lying. I think it is too late to learn honesty, especially when they have succeeded in the past by being dishonest.

[globality]

Finally people are catching on. The more you know Hillary the less you like her.

www.clintonscandals2008.com

[SCG]

HILLARY EXPOSED HOW HER 'SNIPER' FIB HURTS By: Rich Lowry NY Post March 27, 2008

excerpt: "In a Gallup poll this month, 53 percent thought Hillary wasn't honest and trustworthy, while Obama and John McCain were rated trustworthy by more than 2-1 margins. "

Link:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03272008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/hillary_exposed_103784.htm

[SCG]

Gallup Daily tracking poll: March 7-9 2008

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama has edged up in the preferences of national Democratic voters, and now has a 48% to 44% advantage over Hillary Clinton.

Link: http://www.gallup.com/poll/105724/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Now-48-Clinton-44.aspx

[LeftLeaner]

What happened to today's poll showing them 40%/45%?

[LeftLeaner]

Typo: I meant 45%/45%

[LeftLeaner]

I saw a poll today (who can trust polls anymore after this NBC/WSJ Poll) with them tied at 45%/45%.

What about that one?

[dajay]

Yeah, what about that poll where they were tied. You won't see that posted on the HF Post, though will ya?

[ChiGuy]

As Hillary's supporters flee in droves out of embarrassment, her numbers will continue to dwindle, just as many polls show that Obama has already bounced back from the speciously culled Wright videos.

Even SHE must know that it's just a matter of time, yet she continues to drag this out harming the party.

She is rapidly building a legacy she'll find difficult to escape.

[ChimpmasterDJ]

I've yet to see anything that can embarrass a Clinton supporter. It's a cult.

[sebocd]

They are like Bushies , they have the loyalty of lap dogs. Like their narcissistic leader they are exquistly vulnerable to real or imagined slights. If this were 17th century colonial times Hillary would be hung as a witch.

[dajay]

If Clinton supporters are a cult, then what can be said about the Obama supporters.

Everytime I think of an Obama supporter, I picture those moonies walking around in white robes, holding flowers.

Tell me now. Do you guys dress like that? I really need to find this out.

[natasyenehc]

What do people of Ohio who voted for Clinton think about her bare-faced lying on NAFTA?
No wonder she dealyed release of her records.

[LeftLeaner]

at the same time they can ask them what they think of Obama's voting for CAFTA, against the interests and jobs for American workers.

[nurseattorney]

Why do you think those voters gave a single thought to Hillary's support of NAFTA? The voters who put Hillary over the top in Ohio were "Reagan Democrats" who would not vote for a black person if they descended from heaven on wings with God's seal of approval. Reagan Democrats vote God, guns, and gays, oh yes, and race. And in November, they will all put McCain bumper stickers on the backs of their 10 year old pick-ups and "Support the Troops" signs in the yards of their foreclosed-upon houses and double-wides. These are NOT the brightest bulbs in the Democrat's firmament.

[dajay]

nurseattorney., Oh here we go again. All the voters that voted for Hillary in Ohio and probably will vote for her in Penn, are either Rush L. Repubs, reagan democrats, or just plain stupid people.

You Obama guys can spin anything can you. Why can't you just admit that your candidate can't win the big states with a diverse group of people living in it!

He can't win states unless they aer populated by a large majority of rich, white people, African-Americans, or college kids. That's the damn facts! Face it!

[furelise]

Did you say Hillary lied about NAFTA? The world really has turned upside down. Just to remind you, while Sen. Obama's economic advisor , Goolsbey, Obama was telling reporters it didn't happen. Where did you get the idea Sen. Clinton lied about it since one of Sen. Obama's own supporters from the Clinton White House, David Gergen, said she opposed it? Another David Axelrod and Barack Obama lie and I expect we will hear all about it in the next debate.

[ElkoJohn]

`
hopefully Team Hillary will crash & burn
and the Clintons will be relegated to the "has-beens" that they are
Al Gore will then be free to help Obama unite the country
a happy ending
to an ugly campaign
no more 1980, Kennedy v. Carter tragedies
.

[loki]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/us/politics/24campaign.html

Clinton campaign has found a new angle: imaginary electoral college votes. It is sending surrogates out to push the idea that superdelegates should vote for the candidate who would have come out ahead if the primaries were awarding electoral college votes instead of delegates.

[ChiGuy]

Legal maneuvers, desperate and weak as they may be, are still better than the sleaze of personal attacks.

[ChiGuy]

LOL!! The article quotes Hillary after Bush's victory over Gore in 2000:

“I believe strongly that in a democracy, we should respect the will of the people and to me, that means it’s time to do away with the Electoral College and move to the popular election of our president.”

Uh-oh...Someone's talking out of the other side of her mouth again...

[nurseattorney]

Where's the diary where we all got to create new ways for Hillary to argue to the Super delegates that she's really winning. It had a LOT of very creative ideas.

[souris]

...................you mean the voters are beginning to see the lying Hillary being a lot like the lying Dumbass????

[natasyenehc]

she isn't called Bush-Lite for nothing you know

[LeftLeaner]

as opposed to "lightweight " when referring to Obama?

[SCG]

New Poll Weakens Clinton Supporters' Electoral College Argument
A new poll in California shows more voters now have a positive view of Obama despite Clinton's Super Tuesday win in the state
By Justin Ewers
Posted March 27, 2008

excerpt:

If the general election were held today, the poll indicates that Obama, not Clinton, would do better here: He polls at 49-to-40 percent over McCain, while Clinton-McCain is a statistical tie (46 percent of voters say they would support Clinton; 43 percent for McCain).

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/03/27/new-poll-weakens-clinton-supporters-electoral-college-argument.html

[PrdAmerican]

Uh-oh...buyer's remorse??

[SCG]

No, they just oversampled Californians

[SCG]

New Poll Weakens Clinton Supporters' Electoral College Argument
A new poll in California shows more voters now have a positive view of Obama despite Clinton's Super Tuesday win in the state

By Justin Ewers
Posted March 27, 2008

Link:
http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/campaign-2008/2008/03/27/new-poll-weakens-clinton-supporters-electoral-college-argument.html

[EinChicago]

"In addition, we oversampled African-Americans "

Gee. Ya think that might be the cause?

[gojackets]

No....the results were weighted. Check out this for an explanation:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/185845.php

[kurtinco]

These results were not "weighed" in accordance with standard statistical procedures with regard to sampling a population. This poll, as with most from these news organizations lately, is skewed in an effort to manipulate the results in favor of their preferred candidate. What a shocker.

[LeftLeaner]

Yeah, double speak - It's called SPIN "AFTER" the Manipulation was EXPOSED!

[mikerose]

"Gee. Ya think that might be the cause?"

No. pollsters will often over sample to get a suitable number of a (comparatively rare) group that accurately represents that group -- but when coming up with a consolidated response, they weight the groups, to correct for the over-sampling.

[LeftLeaner]

It's called "RIGGED" or Manipulated Poll.

Take your pick