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.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,234 posts)as well, but in bigger numbers.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)They doing everything they can to tarnish Hillary in the event that she does run for office in 2016.
kentuck
(111,094 posts)I don't think the people will buy it.
tarheelsunc
(2,117 posts)Everyone knows the midterms have low turnout. All it takes is a small kick in conservative turnout to drastically alter the election.
LeftInTX
(25,328 posts)SunSeeker
(51,555 posts)emulatorloo
(44,124 posts)Republican Noise Machine has done a bang up job, haven't they?
SunSeeker
(51,555 posts)groundloop
(11,519 posts)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)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)This is also funny:
Republicans Hold Hearings About Hillary Clintons 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 Clintons 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)