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Who Do You Want To Run In 2016?
Are you dissatisfied with Hillary Clinton as the presumptive democratic nominee for President in 2016? Are you hoping for a more progressive candidate? We want to know who you want, email...
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By Dan Merica, CNN
updated 12:14 PM EDT, Tue September 9, 2014
A poll shows a virtual tie for Hillary Clinton and Chris Christie in a hypothetical 2016 presidential race in New Jersey.
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Washington (CNN) -- Chris Christie and Hillary Clinton are neck-and-neck in the New Jersey governor's home state, according to a poll released Tuesday about the hypothetical presidential match-up.
Fairleigh Dickinson University's Public Mind Poll found that Clinton garnered 45% of the New Jersey electorate while Christie won 42%. Clinton's slight lead is within the poll's 3.7% margin of error, making the contest a statistical tie.
A tie, however, is down from where Clinton was just last month.
A Quinnipiac University Poll found in August that Clinton would beat Christie in New Jersey 50% to 42%.
This was the first time that Fairleigh Dickinson asked questions about Clinton vs. Christie in the Garden State.
When Christie won re-election in 2013, he was heralded as the Republicans' hope for winning the White House in 2016 because of his crossover appeal with Democratic and independent voters. While the governor has been hampered by the George Washington Bridge scandal -- and seen his polling numbers with Democrats fall -- Fairleigh Dickinson's polling director sees promise in these numbers for Christie.
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Would Hillary Clinton top Chris Christie in New Jersey?
The more Hillary Clinton looks like a candidate, the less invincible she appears.
The former first lady and New York senator enjoyed sky-high approval ratings during her tenure as President Barack Obamas secretary of state, but her numbers have returned to earth since she traded her perch as the nations top diplomat for her current role as the Democrats top presidential prospect in 2016.
The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll found 43% of registered voters view Ms. Clinton positively, compared with the 41% who harbor negative views. Thats a steep drop from February 2009 when 59% viewed the newly confirmed secretary of state positively and just 22% held negative views. The numbers suggest Americans are far less charitable about Ms. Clinton when she is seeking office or, in this case, merely considering it than they are about other politicians who retire from public office.
A case in point: Ms. Clintons husband, former President Bill Clinton, and his successor, former President George W. Bush. The public views both much more favorably than when they left office. The latest Journal poll found 56% of registered voters view Mr. Clinton positively, compared with the 21% who view him negatively. Thats a sharp improvement from March 2001, right after he left office, when 52% of adults viewed him negatively.
Mr. Bush has witnessed a somewhat more surprising revival since he left office to the cheers of even some Republicans. In the new poll, registered voters split almost evenly on the former president, with 37% viewing him positively and 38% viewing him negatively. Thats a big improvement from April 2009, a few months after he retired from the Oval Office when the economy was still in free fall and roughly two out of three Americans viewed Mr. Bush negatively.
One of the biggest reasons Ms. Clinton has lost some of that glow from 2009 when she played the good soldier by joining her rivals cabinet is that Republicans now hold a much dimmer view of the former secretary of state. Roughly one-in-four Republicans viewed Ms. Clinton positively in 2009. That number fell to 14% in the latest poll, while those who harbor negative views jumped 18 percentage points, from 52% in 2009 to 70% this month.
But Ms. Clinton has also fallen out of favor with some Democrats and independents, as well. In 2009, 87% of Democrats viewed her positively, compared with a meager 3% who viewed negatively. In the latest poll, 72% of Democrats view Ms. Clinton positively, while 13% harbor negative views. Independents were twice as likely to view her positively as negatively in 2009. Now, they are more evenly split, with 40% holding positive views and 35% viewing her negatively.
Despite that erosion, Ms. Clinton remains more popular than many of the Republicans she could face in a presidential showdown in 2016. Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush three Republicans mentioned as potential White House hopefuls in 2016 are all viewed more negatively than positively. Only Florida Sen. Marco Rubio garnered as many positive views as he did negative ones, with registered voters split evenly at 21%-21%.
The poll revealed a potentially difficult trend for Mr. Paul, who has called for a less interventionist foreign policy, as Republicans grow decidedly more hawkish in the face of a growing threat posed by Islamic militants destabilizing the Middle East. Some 61% of the poll respondents said it would be in the countrys national interest to take military action against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, a view shared by Mr. Paul. Nearly half of Republicans went a step further to say they would favor sending combat troops to the region to battle the group directly.
But perhaps more striking is that self-identified Republicans in the September survey wanted the U.S. to be more involved in world affairs, by a margin of 41%-34%. Thats a big jump from a Journal poll conducted in April that found 45% of Republicans wanted the U.S. to be less active in the world, and just 29% wanting the country to be more involved. If the shift continues, Mr. Paul may face more pressure to articulate foreign-policy views that run counter to many of his supporters or to the Republicans currently outside his fold.
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Hillary Clintons Approval Numbers Return to Earth WSJ/NBC Poll
By Bruce Wright
Boston.com Staff
September 9, 2014 1:02 PM
On the eve of his states primary election to narrow down candidates vying for his seat, outgoing Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick said he has some worries about another potential run for the White House by Hillary Clinton.
When asked if he would lend his support to a second Hillary Clinton presidential campaign , Patrick said, Im going to wait on all that until its time to make those kinds of decisions, reported The Palm Beach Post.
When pressed for details on whether its a foregone conclusion that Clinton would run, Patrick elaborated:
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First of all, I think shes fantastic and incredibly strong, Patrick said of Clinton. But the problem with inevitability is its sometimes interpreted as entitlement and I think that voters want competition and they want their candidates to have to work for it. We dont have to really get too deep into that because she hasnt declared yet, but its just a concern that I hope her campaign keeps in mind.
Patrick made the comments Monday night while he was in Miami to campaign with fellow Democrat Charlie Crist, who is locked in a tight race for governor of Florida.
That same topic of inevitability has been a familiar refrain for Patrick, who has echoed that word for months in reference to a possible Clinton presidential campaign.
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Gov. Deval Patrick Stops Short of Endorsing Hillary Clinton for President