'08 candidates: To know them is to dislike them?

[DeepModem Mom]

The Politico: To know them is to dislike them
By: Roger Simon
May 28, 2007

....According to a Gallup Poll conducted this month: "Despite the remarkably early start on this year's presidential campaign and the high-visibility presence of the major candidates on television news shows and in televised debates, the name identification of the leading candidates or potential candidates has not changed much so far this year."...

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...Hillary Clinton leads all candidates with 98 percent name recognition. But to know her is not necessarily to like her. Her net favorable rating is just 6 percent.


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When you take Hillary Clinton's favorable rating with the general public and subtract her unfavorable rating, she gets a net favorable of just 6 percent today, which is 12 percentage points lower than she had in February. (In April, she actually sank into negative territory with a net favorable rating of minus 5 percent.)

By comparison, Obama has a net favorable today of 31 percent, and Edwards has a net favorable of 25 percent.

On the Republican side, Rudy Giuliani leads with a net favorable of 38 percent, but that is down from 45 percent in February. John McCain comes in next with 24 percent, and Mitt Romney has a 5 percent net favorable rating.

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Not a single person now running for president has a net favorable rating of more than 50 percent....

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0507/4223.html

[Captain Hilts]

1. I like something about ALL of the candidates! It's a better, deeper pool this year.

Clark, Richardson, Dodd, Gore are my favorites, but I like the others too.

[DeepModem Mom]

2. What a refreshing post, Mookie! I like them all, too. nt

[tularetom]

3. I find it incredible that Giuliani has a net favorable rating of 38

Do the math. It means 69% of those queationed had a favorable opinion of him while 31% had an unfavorable opinion. (Assuming there were no "No opinions")

A net favorable rating of 50% by the same yardstick would mean that 75% favored the candidate while 25% did not (75-25=50). I serioiusaly doubt that ANY political candidate could ever achieve that level of favorability.

[AndyTiedye]

4. It Means that Gouliani is Being Pumped up to "Win" the Election