George W. Bush would handily defeat Bill Clinton

chuckster

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George W. Bush would handily defeat Bill Clinton if they were the major party candidates in 2004. In a hypothetical matchup between the current president and his predecessor, 53 percent say they would vote for Bush while less than a third (32 percent) say they would vote for Clinton, with six percent saying “neither." Of course, these two candidates are only imaginary opponents as the U.S. Constitution restricts Clinton from running for a third term.

In the hypothetical Bush-Clinton matchup, Republicans solidly support Bush (88 percent) compared to 62 percent of Democrats who say they would vote for Clinton. Almost a quarter (24 percent) of Democrats say they would vote for Bush while only seven percent of GOPers would vote for Clinton.

2004 Democrats Not Household Names

The new poll finds most of the 2004 Democratic presidential candidates remain largely unknown to the public. Being Al Gore’s vice presidential running mate in the 2000 election no doubt has helped Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman (search) achieve the highest name recognition of the nine candidates, with over two-thirds able to rate him. Missouri Rep. Dick Gephardt (search) and New York Minister Al Sharpton (search) are the only other candidates who also have better than 50 percent name recognition.

The least well known include former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (search) (71 percent cannot rate), former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean (search) (76 percent cannot rate), North Carolina Sen. John Edwards (search) (70 percent cannot rate), Florida Sen. Bob Graham (search) (61 percent cannot rate) and Ohio Rep. Dennis Kucinich (search) (83 percent cannot rate) — all of whom have sizeable majorities either unable to recognize their name or to offer an opinion of them.

Overall, New York Sen. Hillary Clinton (search) and Al Sharpton are the Democrats with the most negative public images, with both being rated unfavorably by just under half of the public.
 

demsformd

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Who did these polls? From my polling info from CNN, Gallup, and others are in contradiction with these numbers.
 

vraiblonde

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Sorry, Charlie - every poll I've seen indicates the same thing as what Chuckster posted from Yahoo.

But who cares? Hypotheticals are a waste of time. Dubya and Clinton won't be squaring off so why bother worrying about it?
 
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