Thursday, February 1, 2007

Fox Poll has Clinton in Lead - Again

Hillary Clinton continues to top the polls, with the latest Fox poll having her ahead of her nearest rival, Barack Obama by 28 points.

In a national poll of 900 people, Clinton was the preferred Democratic nominee by 43% of people, followed by Obama on 15%. Former Vice Presidential candidate John Edwards was on 12%, followed by undeclared and recent nominee for the Nobel Prize, Al Gore on 11%.

Recently announced candidate, Joe Biden was on 4%

The poll was conducted between January 30 and 31 - its margin of error is 3%.

Interestingly, the poll shows that Clinton is the best rated to be tough on terrorism - she even leads all Republican candidates. However, the poll still shows that Clinton has a favorable/unfavorable rating of 50/44.

And on the question of how comfortable people would be with Clinton as President, 45% of people said not very or not comfortable. Only 2% of people on this question answered "don't know". In comparison, for the same criteria, Obama is on 32% with a massive 20% "don't knows".