Poll: Clinton lags in quest for male voters

USA Today: Poll: Clinton lags in quest for male voters
By Jill Lawrence, USA TODAY


(By Joshua Lott, Reuters)
84% of Republicans polled say they would not vote for Hillary Clinton for president in 2008.

WASHINGTON — More than eight in 10 Republicans and more than half the married men in a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll say they definitely wouldn't vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton for president. The poll provides an early snapshot of who's ruling out Clinton, John Edwards and Barack Obama, the three leading candidates for the Democratic nomination.

Clinton, who tops national polls of Democrats, is strongest within her party. Only 10% of Democrats said they'd rule her out; nearly three times as many said they wouldn't vote for Edwards.

The new poll found that Clinton would defeat the leading Republican, Rudy Giuliani, in a hypothetical matchup. Still, some Democrats wonder whether she's potentially unelectable or a drag on candidates lower on the ballot, and rivals such as Edwards say they're better bets. In a general election, the poll suggests that Clinton has the least potential for winning votes from Republicans — 84% say they definitely would not vote for her, compared with six in 10 for either Obama or Edwards. Independents show the least resistance to Obama and the most to Edwards.

The poll found that 36% of women wouldn't vote for Clinton, compared with 50% of men — and 55% of married men. Obama had comparable appeal to women and more to men. Clinton's appeal overall falls as income rises, the reverse of the findings for Obama....

Clinton's unfavorable rating in the poll was 45%, vs. 30% for Obama and 31% for Edwards. "A fairly substantial number of ordinary voters have doubts about her," says Jack Pitney, a political scientist at Claremont McKenna College near Los Angeles. Even so, he and others say that doesn't mean Clinton is unelectable. Political scientist John White of Catholic University in Washington, D.C., says she benefits from "the demise of the Republican brand" and trends such as more minority and single voters.

Overall, 43% in the poll would not vote for Clinton....

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2007-11-07-clinton-poll_N.htm

"Clinton, who tops national polls of Democrats, is strongest within her party. Only 10% of Democrats said they'd rule her out; nearly three times as many said they wouldn't vote for Edwards."

Hmmmm the DU meme is usually quite different.

I hope you don't mind if I take this one with a pinch of salt, too.

In fact, I'm not putting a whole lot of faith in polls, period. The only ones I consider at all reliable are Harris and AP/Ipsos/Reid.

However, Democrats have consistently polled lower with men ever since the days of Nixon and his silent (read: southern bigot) majority. That's about the only truth to this article, the gender gap.

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This is BS. Not only does none of this surprise anyone the DLC basically agrees with this giving up hope of bringing males White males in particular onto their side.

Republican men don't like Hillary-what a shocker.

Especially since women are the majority of the electorate...