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brooklynite

(94,561 posts)
Mon May 13, 2013, 01:46 PM May 2013

Voters trust Clinton over GOP on Benghazi

Source: Public Policy Polling

PPP's newest national poll finds that Republicans aren't getting much traction with their focus on Benghazi over the last week. Voters trust Hillary Clinton over Congressional Republicans on the issue of Benghazi by a 49/39 margin and Clinton's +8 net favorability rating at 52/44 is identical to what it was on our last national poll in late March. Meanwhile Congressional Republicans remain very unpopular with a 36/57 favorability rating.

Voters think Congress should be more focused on other major issues right now rather than Benghazi. By a 56/38 margin they say passing a comprehensive immigration reform bill is more important than continuing to focus on Benghazi, and by a 52/43 spread they think passing a bill requiring background checks for all gun sales should be a higher priority.

While voters overall may think Congress' focus should be elsewhere there's no doubt about how mad Republicans are about Benghazi. 41% say they consider this to be the biggest political scandal in American history to only 43% who disagree with that sentiment. Only 10% of Democrats and 20% of independents share that feeling. Republicans think by a 74/19 margin than Benghazi is a worse political scandal than Watergate, by a 74/12 margin that it's worse than Teapot Dome, and by a 70/20 margin that it's worse than Iran Contra.


Read more: http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2013/05/voters-trust-clinton-over-gop-on-benghazi.html



Well, if that's the case, it's time to.....repeal Obamacare again.
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Tarheel_Dem

(31,234 posts)
1. And this will surely turn them out in the midterms. That's what it's all for. We have to show up..
Mon May 13, 2013, 01:51 PM
May 2013

as well, but in bigger numbers.

liberal N proud

(60,334 posts)
2. The republicans will keep picking at this until 2015 or longer
Mon May 13, 2013, 01:59 PM
May 2013

They doing everything they can to tarnish Hillary in the event that she does run for office in 2016.

tarheelsunc

(2,117 posts)
4. They're trying to fire up their base, like 2010.
Mon May 13, 2013, 02:08 PM
May 2013

Everyone knows the midterms have low turnout. All it takes is a small kick in conservative turnout to drastically alter the election.

emulatorloo

(44,124 posts)
6. Yeah, because every one besides Fox is "LYING!!!!!"
Mon May 13, 2013, 02:15 PM
May 2013

Republican Noise Machine has done a bang up job, haven't they?

groundloop

(11,519 posts)
9. Hell, just keeping this shit in the news is a win for them
Mon May 13, 2013, 02:54 PM
May 2013

Every time someone does a "poll", even if it's negative for the repubs, they win. All they need to do is fire up their little right wing followers for the 2014 election with this bullshit and they're ahead of the game
 

ErikJ

(6,335 posts)
10. Worse than the Nixon cover-up of his sabotaging the Paris Peace Talks?
Mon May 13, 2013, 04:13 PM
May 2013

extending the Viet Nam War for 4 more years with 20,000 more Americans killed? HAHA

That's ultimately why he broke into the Dem HQ -to find the tapes of his bribing the South VN leaders to skip the Paris Peace talks.

Beacool

(30,247 posts)
11. Just to prove that people aren't as stupid as republicans think they are.
Tue May 14, 2013, 12:48 AM
May 2013

This is also funny:

Republicans Hold Hearings About Hillary Clinton’s Poll Numbers

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Republican lawmakers asked increasingly tough questions today as they held another day of hearings to investigate, in the words of Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California), “Hillary Clinton’s suspiciously high poll numbers and what can be done to make them lower.”

“With the help of Fox News, we have brutally attacked Hillary Clinton for months, and yet she remains more popular than ever,” Rep. Issa said. “This committee needs to know how that happened, and how we can keep it from happening in the future.”


Rep. Issa pointed to recent polls showing the former Secretary of State trouncing every potential G.O.P. Presidential candidate, “even a skinnier version of Chris Christie.”


http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/05/republicans-hold-hearings-about-hillary-clintons-poll-numbers.html?mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(118)

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