Hillary is seriously popular

Posted By Carolyn O'Hara Wednesday, January 14, 2009 - 4:11 PM Share

A Gallup poll released yesterday shows 65 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Hillary, her highest figure in 10 years. She was at 54 percent right before the Democratic National Convention this summer. Her previous all-time high? Right after the House voted to impeach Bill in December 1998.

Her ratings are up across party lines - she's nearly unanimously liked now among Democrats (93%), a majority of Independents like her, and more than a third of Republicans polled gave her favorable marks.

And 56 percent of those polled believe she'll be an outstanding or above average secretary of state. My guess is her performance yesterday didn't dent that number at all.

For more evidence of her rapid rise in public estimation, there's this:

An early December NBC/Wall Street Journal survey showed 53 percent of the sample felt very or somewhat positively about Clinton while 26 percent felt very/somewhat negatively about her. That compares favorably to an NBC/WSJ poll done in late March when 37 percent felt positively while 48 percent felt negatively.

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STILL4HILL

11:46 PM ET

January 14, 2009

Actually, she would have been

Actually, she would have been a spectacular president. I am confounded by the people who used words like "amazing," "astonishing," and "stunning" about her marathon performance yesterday which was the rough equivalent of three doctoral dissertation defenses in one day. What were these people reading, listening to, doing during the primary season? She surprised NONE of her 18,000,000 cracks in the glass ceiling. That was typical Hillary, y'all!!

"Botswana comes to mind...." - Well, only to HER mind! I never hear her or read what she has written without learning something new. She's dangerous that way. Look out! You might just learn something listening to her!

 

NANCY IN CALI

12:42 AM ET

January 17, 2009

I agree 100%

with you Still4Hill. She is so superior to everyone else that I could listen to her 24 hours a day. When she came to San Diego a year ago - she rattled off all kinds of statistic about San Diego country, home mortgages, etc. and she was only here about 2 hrs!!! then off to the next place to rattle off more statistics about those places....how does she do it? how does she remember everything!!!

I am so sorry and sad that she is not our president, but i have let go of my bitterness towards obama. I have to or it will be a hellish 4 or 8 years...

 

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