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Survey of 500 Likely Voters August 23, 2005
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August 26, 2005--Senator Hillary Clinton holds a 24-point edge in her bid for re-election to the U.S. Senate. Clinton first won her Senate seat by a 9-point margin in Election 2000. The latest Rasmussen Reports survey found that the former First Lady is the choice of 57% of New York voters while Jeanine Pirro currently earns 33% of the vote. Clinton leads by 18-points among men and 29-points among women. Related survey data shows that Democrat Eliot Spitzer holds an even larger lead in the race to become New York's next Governor. Hillary Clinton is viewed favorably by 63% of the state's voters, including 45% who have a "very favorable" opinion of her. Just 35% have an unfavorable view of their Junior Senator. Nationally, opinion of Hillary Clinton is more evenly divided. For Pirro, the numbers are 39% favorable and 38% unfavorable. Even within her own party their are doubts-- just 50% of Republicans hold a favorable opinion of Pirro. The potential Clinton-Pirro match-up features famous husbands and, even in this category, Hillary has the political advantage. Al Pirro is twice as likely to be seen as a problem for his wife's campaign as Bill Clinton. [More Below] Clinton will need to build on her current 24-point lead to boost her expected 2008 Presidential bid. At the very least, she will want to win New York by a larger margin than her party's last two Presidential nominees--Al Gore (25 percentage points) and John Kerry (19 percentage points). Currently, 24% of Americans believe Senator Clinton is "very likely" to be the Democrat's Presidential nominee in 2008. Fifty-one percent (51%) of New York voters believe Hillary Clinton is a carpetbagger. Just 32% say she's a real New Yorker. But, that perceptin has little impact on how Empire State citizens act in the voting booth. Just 38% of New York voters approve of the way that George W. Bush is performing his job as President. Sixty-one percent (61%) disapprove, including 47% who strongly disapprove. Thirty-one percent (31%) believe the country is heading in the right direction at this time. Demographic cross-tabs are available for Premium Members. The margin of sampling error for the full survey sample is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence. Rasmussen Reports is an electronic publishing firm specializing in the collection, publication, and distribution of public opinion polling information. Rasmussen Reports was the nation's most accurate polling firm during the Presidential election and the only one to project both Bush and Kerry's vote total within half a percentage point of the actual outcome. During Election 2004, RasmussenReports.com was also the top-ranked public opinion research site on the web. We had twice as many visitors as our nearest competitor and nearly as many as all competitors combined. Scott Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports, has been an independent pollster for more than a decade. To keep up with our latest releases, be sure to visit the Rasmussen Reports Home Page.
The telephone survey of 500 Likely Voters was conducted by Rasmussen Reports August 23, 2005. The margin of sampling error for the survey is +/- 4.5 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence (see Methodology) |
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