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March 13--Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has turned around her potential political fortunes in Iowa, according to a presidential preference poll released Thursday morning.

The former first lady, who is being encouraged to make another White House run in 2016, leads Gov. Chris Christie 48 to 35 percent in a hypothetical matchup, according to a Quinnipiac University Poll of 1,411 registered voters in Iowa. That reverses the New Jersey governor's 48 to 45 percent lead in a December Quinnipiac poll.

Clinton's turnaround may not be her own doing, however.

"Who said, 'All politics is local?'" said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac poll. "Secretary Clinton is benefitting from the fallout after a traffic jam a thousand miles away.

"When Quinnipiac University surveyed Iowans last December, Christie was the lead reindeer," Brown said. "But after the coverage of the George Washington Bridge lane closures, his nose is not so bright. Like the other GOP hopefuls, he now trails Clinton by double digits."

She has a 49 to 39 percent lead over Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, 51 to 35 percent over U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and 51 to 37 percent over former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida.

Clinton doesn't seem to be hurt by President Barack Obama's low approval rating, Quinnipiac found. Obama gets a negative 39 to 57 percent approval rating in Iowa, compared to a negative 38 to 59 percent rating inDecember.

"Politics is a team sport and the head of the blue team, President Barack Obama, isn't doing well in the eyes of Iowans," Brown said. "But that doesn't seem to be hurting teammate Hillary Clinton who swamps potential 2016 Republican competitors among the same electorate."

"So much -- at least for now -- for the conventional wisdom that as the president's popularity goes, so goes Democratic hopes for 2016," Brown added.

Clinton appears to have benefited by a shift among independent voters shift from 44 to 35 percent for Christie in December to 46 to 32 percent for her today. Clinton has leads of 12 to 22 percentage points among independent voters in the other matchups.

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Hillary Rodham Clinton and her team were mum Wednesday about the revelations of close ties between her 2008 presidential campaign and an illegal fundraising operation based in Washington, while a new poll showed erosion in her popularity.

For the third day in a row, Mrs. Clintons press aides refused to respond to questions about her knowledge of the criminal case or whether she still has confidence in a top adviser who solicited campaign donations from disgraced Washington businessman Jeffrey Thompson.

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Thompson, convicted of funding a shadow campaign for D.C. Mayor Vincent C. Gray in 2010, also pleaded guilty this week to funneling more than $600,000 in illicit donations to aid Mrs. Clintons bid for the White House. Court documents say that a top Clinton campaign official, Minyon Moore, asked Thompson to pay for canvassers and street teams to reach minority voters in four key early-primary states during Mrs. Clintons battle for the Democratic nomination against Barack Obama.

Mrs. Clinton, considered the undeclared front-runner for the 2016 Democratic nomination, took another hit Wednesday in a new poll that showed her vaunted popularity slipping.

The Wall Street Journal/NBC News survey, which was conducted before Thompson pleaded guilty, showed the combined percentage of people who view Mrs. Clinton very positively or somewhat positively has dropped to 44 percent, down from 58 percent in December 2012. Her negative rating rose to 34 percent, up from 28 percent in December 2012, when she was nearing the end of her service as secretary of state.

The poll also found that an endorsement by Mrs. Clinton would be a net negative for candidates running for office this year, with 25 percent of respondents saying they would be more likely to vote for someone she endorsed, and 34 percent saying they would be less likely to vote for that candidate. Forty percent said her endorsement would make no difference.

The survey did hold some qualified good news for Mrs. Clinton. While her popularity has eroded, shes still more popular than President Obama. Only 22 percent of respondents said Mr. Obamas endorsement would make them more likely to vote for a candidate this year, while 42 percent said the presidents endorsement would make them less likely to vote for that candidate.

And a poll in Iowa last month found Mrs. Clinton was still the overwhelming favorite among potential Democratic candidates for 2016.

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