Poll: California Voters Favor Clinton

[wyldwolf]

California voters, like the national electorate, favor Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rudy Giuliani in the first statewide poll of presidential preferences since the 2008 race has taken shape.

Each is the choice of about one-third of likely voters in their respective primaries, according to a new Public Policy Institute of California poll released Wednesday.

In the PPIC survey, Clinton, the New York senator, is the choice of 35 percent of likely California Democratic primary voters, followed by Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former vice presidential nominee John Edwards.

As voters in California begin to size up the candidates, the PPIC poll showed women Democratic primary voters are heavily favoring Clinton, with 40 percent backing the former first lady compared with 28 percent for men. Clinton on Wednesday won the endorsement of the National Organization for Women's political arm. Obama, on the other hand, has the support of 31 percent of male Democratic primary voters, compared with 18 percent of women.

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/politics/16992073.htm

The poll by the nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California showed that 36 percent of registered Democrats and independents who are likely to vote in the party's primary supported Clinton, 22 percent Barack Obama and 14 percent John Edwards.

White voters favored Clinton over Obama by a seven-point margin. Forty-two percent of registered Latino voters said they would vote for the former first lady, 14 percent for Obama and 12 percent for Edwards.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4670618.html

[skipos]

1. HRC is continuing the trend of leading primary polls but not doing so well in

general election matchups.

Big $$$ can only get you so much. Ah well.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. 50% Would Never Vote For Her

If I recall correctly, polls indicate that roughly 50% would never vote for her. I suspect that this is more valid than a finding that X% would vote FOR her under a specific circumstance - specific circumstances change, but "never" means "never".

[rinsd]

6. Actually the numbers were broken down a bit more

I think it was 40% never vote her, 10% probably not vote for her.

[frylock]

3. not this california voter

[xxqqqzme]

4. I was at Central Committee Monday night...

I don't know any Democrats in Orange County who support her...I'm certain there are some, I just don't know any.

[mitchtv]

5. Not this voter

If she wins the nod, however, that is a different story. I won't go crying to the GOP subsidiary-Greens.