92% of Democrats are comfortable voting for Hillary. [View all]

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Ninety-two percent.

That's how many Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents in a new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll said they could see themselves supporting Hillary Clinton for the party's nomination in 2016, a stark sign of how little genuine resistance there is within the party to the idea of the former secretary of state as the nominee.

In fact, support for Clinton on that question has risen since NBC-WSJ last asked it in March, even as Bernie Sanders appears to be picking up momentum in his primary challenge to Clinton. In March, 86 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents said they could see themselves supporting Clinton, while 13 percent said they could not imagine themselves supporting her.

Compare that to where the Republican field stands on that same question. Jeb Bush leads the way with 75 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents saying they could support him, while 74 percent said the same of Marco Rubio. Mike Huckabee (65 percent could support), Scott Walker (57 percent) and Rick Perry (53 percent) round out the top five for the GOP.

The simple fact is that for all the chatter about discontent toward Clinton, it's indisputable that her side is not only very comfortable with the idea of her as the nominee but significantly more so than Republicans are with any of their options.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/06/23/theres-a-new-poll-number-that-shows-just-how-likely-hillary-clinton-is-to-be-the-democratic-nominee/