Reply #12: Hillary Rodham Clinton beats McCain by 7 points in last poll - I like that

[papau]

Of course the poll showed them tied - within a point of each other - if Hill uses the name Hillary Clinton. Seems "Rodham" is worth 7 points - wierd, but great!

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/20/poll.08/index.html

If presidential elections were held today, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton would likely have a comfortable edge over Sen. John McCain, but take away her maiden name and McCain has a better shot of landing in the Oval Office.

So say the results of a CNN poll released Friday by Opinion Research Corp., which asked 506 adult Americans whom they preferred among potential 2008 presidential candidates. The margin of error for the survey is plus or minus 4.5 percent.

Asked if they preferred Hillary Rodham Clinton to McCain, respondents gave the Democratic New York senator and former first lady a 51 percent to 44 percent advantage over the Republican Senator from Arizona. Remove "Rodham" and McCain had a 1 percentage point advantage, 48 percent to 47 percent.