Clinton has largest recorded early primary lead in at least 30 years.

[arely staircase]

Hillary Rodham Clinton holds a commanding 6 to 1 lead over other Democrats heading into the 2016 presidential campaign, while the Republican field is deeply divided with no clear front-runner, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

Clinton trounces her potential primary rivals with 73 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, reinforcing a narrative of inevitability around her nomination if she runs. Vice President Biden is second with 12 percent, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) is third with 8 percent.For 2016, Hillary Clinton has commanding lead over Democrats, GOP race wide open

Although Clinton’s favorability rating has fallen since she stepped down as secretary of state a year ago, she has broad Democratic support across ideological, gender, ethnic and class lines. Her lead is the largest recorded in an early primary matchup in at least 30 years of Post-ABC polling.

http://m.washingtonpost.com/politics/for-2016-hillary-clinton-has-commanding-lead-over-democrats-gop-race-wide-open/2014/01/29/188bb3f4-8904-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html

Damn she is kicking some ass.

[bigdarryl]

1. She's got NOTHING yet the primary is two years away it's just a stupid poll

Those polls will tighten.

[arely staircase]

2. 30 years

[Gman]

3. She will be the next president

This harkens back to 1984 when there was no question Walter Mondale would get the nomination. Many groups, just like the folks here pushed, back against that kind of inevitability. The AFL CIO pledged after that election never to endorse someone before the primaries were over again. Many of us in labor liked Gary Hart but our hands became tied.

[magical thyme]

4. she was a clear front runner with 39% in a CNN poll in early February 2006

Barack Obama didn't show up in the CNN poll until late October 2006.

[arely staircase]

5. she has almost twice that now

Hasn't been a candidate so popular with her party's base in more than a generation.

[magical thyme]

10. and when Barack Obama showed up, he started with 15% in their 1st poll

in a huge field.

Nothing to say another Barack Obama won't appear and immediately turn it into a contest.

[grantcart]

26. Who do you think is going to show up and challenge her with these numbers?

[magical thyme]

30. I have no idea. But early front runners are not shoo-ins.

She was the front-runner before, and a dark horse appeared "out of nowhere."

It happened before and it could happen again. It all depends on the 1% wars, imo.

[Logical]

6. FFS, I hope she does not run, we need a real liberal! nt

[arely staircase]

7. she sure is popular with democrats nt

[closeupready]

8. Did they have time to poll non-millionaires?

[arely staircase]

9. democrats. they polled democrats nt

[Armstead]

11. With her support of non-liberal policies, I suspect....

The former president depicted in your icon would have brought her into his famous woodshed

[LordGlenconner]

13. I'm sure he would have done just that

Right after he got done escalating the war in Vietnam.

And frankly, our 60s era campus activists of the time would be taking all of us to the woodshed for completely ignoring the other not so nice things Johnson did while in office.

[Armstead]

29. Since she voted for the Iraq War, yiour argunment doesn't hold much weight

Yes, Johnson did a lot of not nice things, but on balance he advanced a liberal agenda that did much more good on balance.

However, Clintons did a lot to reverse the progress LBJ made.

[arely staircase]

34. what exactly did the Clintons do

to "reverse the progress made by LBJ"?

[Armstead]

36. "Free Trade"....Deregulation....Welfare Deform....Corporate Health Care "Reform"

They basically led the charge to push the Democratic Party to the right and into the hands of Wall St.

[nyquil_man]

12. Great! Now we can skip the election. nt

[arely staircase]

14. no the election will be awesome

Shaping up quite nice don't you think?

[nyquil_man]

16. Why waste all that money on primaries when it's a done deal?

Let's just declare her the nominee right now!

[Fumesucker]

15. Open the Pod Bay doors, Hal

[arely staircase]

28. we are the 8 percent! 1!

[Fumesucker]

33. Hal, no shit, I'm asking nice, open the damn Pod Bay doors man

This monolith has a strange inevitability about it, I can't shake the feeling I've seen it before.

It's a feeling of DejaMoo.

Somewhere I've heard this bull before.

[elfin]

17. I hope some strong contenders emerge

I would welcome her Presidency, albeit with reservations of her corporatist slant.

However, if something godawful should happen to her between now and then, we could be screwn.

Adore Joe, but age and past health crises would be very real problems.

I think it is too early for Warren, plus I think she is now in the right place at the right time.

We need more younger, energetic, experienced Progressives with national recognition on our bench.

May still be too early for the Castro guys, but I yearn for more national exposure for them.

[arely staircase]

35. if one does and wins

they will be called sell out corporatists here before their hand comes off the Bible.

[Wilms]

18. "Damn she is kicking some ass."

That's was the DLCers do. OURS.

[arely staircase]

20. not a fan of the next president I see

Oh well.

[LanternWaste]

32. Or possibly, simply not a fan of prophecy...

Or possibly, simply not a fan of prophecy...

[hughee99]

19. Nice, I can't remember a candidate having such a huge lead in a contested primary

since 2008. The plan to "clear the field" well in advance didn't go well then, I'm not convinced it will work this time either.

[arely staircase]

21. her lead was roughly half what she has now

So, apples oranges.

[hughee99]

23. That's not how apples and oranges works.

This is an oranges / bigger oranges comparison.... and I'm still not sold on the idea that the size of your orange is a great indicator of anything this far away from the election.

[StevieM]

37. Actually, her lead over Obama when he first entered the race was about 15 points.

She was polling in the mid-30s, he was polling at about 20 percent. That is a significantly lesser advantage than the one that George Bush or Al Gore had in 1999-2000, or than Bob Dole had in 1995-1996. She did well over the first 9 months and by the fall of 2007 her lead was about 25 points.

Her current lead is 55-60 points. That is much more than Bush, Gore or Dole had.

I think that the race for the nomination will be between Clinton and former Montana governor Brian Schweitzer. I think that Biden, Warren and O'Malley will sit it out.

[closeupready]

22. Yes. She's always the inevitable candidate, never the candidate.

Always the bridesmaid, never the bride, lol.

[arely staircase]

25. 30 years of polling nt

[reddread]

24. the harder they fall n/t

[antigop]

27. ah, yes, the "inevitability" meme appears once again. Add "1" to the meme counter. nt

[rocktivity]

31. TRANSLATION: Thanks to Chris "Governor Soprano" Christie's Bridge(t)-Gate

The 2016 GOP presidential candidate field is the poorest in 30 years.


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[StevieM]

38. Christie has done a lot more wrong than just bridge-gate. He's basically a thug (eom)

[rocktivity]

39. I nicknamed him "Governor Soprano" years ago.

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