HILLARY IS NOW MORE POPULAR THAN HER BOSS
Aysor.am
Saturday, October 17
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost to Barach Obama in last year’s
battle for the Democratic presidential nomination, but a new national
poll suggests that Hillary Clinton is now more popular than her boss,
President Barack Obama.
A Gallup survey released Thursday indicates that 62 percent of
Americans hold a favorable view of Clinton, 6 points higher than the
56 percent who view Obama favorably, reports CNN.
"This is a common pattern in recent polling," says CNN Polling Director
Keating Holland.
"Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice consistently had higher favorable
ratings than George W. Bush. Madeleine Albright was more popular
than Bill Clinton. Secretaries of State don’t get blamed for economic
problems or unpopular domestic policies, and they often don’t get the
same share of the blame as the commander-in-Chief for international
slip-ups either."
It’s worth mentioning that the Gallup telephone poll of 1,013 adults
was conducted October 1-4, before President Obama was named winner
of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.