Useless Time/CNN poll on Dem 08 Presidential Primary!

[papau]

Nationally, a poll yesterday by CNN found Clinton leading the Democratic primary field for the White House in 2008. Clinton won the support of 40 percent of Democratic voters, John Kerry had 25 percent and John Edwards 17 percent....WASHINGTON - Sen. Hillary Clinton comes out on top in a new poll of Democrats. She even beats her husband.The Time/CNN survey gives New York's junior senator a whopping 73% favor ability rating, 35 points higher than any of the Democrats vying for the party's presidential nod. The only Dem who comes close to her numbers is her husband, former President Bill Clinton, who was liked by 71% of those polled. Sen. Clinton's numbers mirror polls that showed she would have won if she jumped into the Democratic primaries. Clinton found herself repeatedly denying late last year that she had designs on the White House in 2004. Meanwhile, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani laughed off yesterday a Marist College poll released last week that showed him beating Clinton, 50% to 46%, among registered New York voters if he tries to take her Senate seat in 2006.But he didn't rule out taking on the former First Lady."I'm not thinking about it right now," he told CNN's "Late Edition.""A poll about that is totally useless at this point."

AND AS A REMINDER! :-)
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/21/hillary.poll/

Poll: Hillary Clinton top Democratic 2004 choice
Saturday, December 21, 2002 Posted: 10:45 PM EST (0345 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- With Al Gore now out of the race, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would be the top choice of Democrats for the 2004 presidential nomination if she chooses to run, according to a new CNN/Time magazine poll.

When registered Democrats were asked whom they would support in a field that included the New York senator and former first lady, 30 percent picked Clinton, compared with 13 percent each for Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.

No other potential candidate broke out of single digits, while 14 percent said they were unsure. <snip>

[erpowers]

1. Need More Choices

Those polls should give Democrats more choices. I think the poll would change if people like Russ Feingold were added to the poll. I think the majority of Democrats would choose Feingold over Clinton if give choice. As far as more people picking her for the nomination than her husband Bill Clinton, people know that he cannot run therefore they will not pick him.

In dealing with the Guiliani issue I think I saw a poll in which Clinton was beating Guiliani for the Senate seat.