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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (2134)	6/14/2003 7:58:34 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20773

I don't know if you saw this, but the numbers here really surprised me. If I read this right, 56% of people polled (and apparently they did not poll only democrats) would consider voting for Hillary C. I found that rather amazing- considering she isn't running and has said she isn't. Poll: Sen. Clinton's book not helping her image By Marc Humbert, Associated Press, 6/11/2003 17:11 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) Three-quarters of Americans say they have read or heard about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's new book and almost one-in-five of them say they have a less favorable opinion of her as a result, a poll out Wednesday reported. Of those polled by the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, 67 percent said ''Living History'' makes no difference in their opinion of the former first lady while 8 percent of voters said it made them view her more favorably. Eighteen percent said their view of Clinton was less favorable as a result of the book. The nationwide poll also found President Bush well ahead of his potential Democratic challengers for next year's election including Sen. Clinton. ''Write a book, give a speech, campaign relentlessly in Iowa and New Hampshire it doesn't seem to make any difference,'' said Maurice Carroll, head of the Hamden, Conn.-based polling institute. ''President Bush easily beats the new author and the big-three declared Democratic candidates.'' The poll did find Bush's approval rating slipping 57 percent in the new poll, down from 73 percent in an April poll from Quinnipiac due largely to concerns about the economy, according to Carroll. A separate poll by CNN/USA Today/Gallup released Wednesday afternoon found her favorable numbers increasing among Americans compared to three months ago. The phone survey, conducted June 9 and 10, found 53 percent viewed her favorably, compared to 46 percent in mid-March. The same poll found 44 percent of adults said it was ''not at all likely'' that they would vote for Clinton if she ran for president in 2008. The sampling of 1,029 people has an error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. ''Living History,'' the New York Democrat's memoir, sold more than 200,000 copies during its first day on bookstore shelves. Publisher Simon & Schuster, which paid $8 million for the tome, announced it would print an additional 300,000 copies, on top of an extraordinary initial printing of 1 million copies. In the book, Clinton discusses her husband's affair with intern Monica Lewinsky, concluding that what her husband did was morally wrong but not a betrayal of the public. The Quinnipiac poll found Clinton leading all Democrats considering a bid for the White House, but she trails President Bush. Bush was favored by 53 percent of those surveyed, while Clinton garnered 40 percent support among voters. Clinton, appearing on NBC's ''Today'' show Wednesday, said again that she will not run for president in 2004. ''I've said I am not running,'' she said. Once again, she did not flatly rule out a run for president in 2008, but said she had no intention of doing so. Forty percent of the Democratic voters surveyed by Quinnipiac picked Clinton over other potential Democratic candidates for president. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut received 16 percent of the support, Rep. Dick Gephardt of Missouri had 10 percent and Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts was favored by 8 percent. Quinnipiac's telephone poll of 865 registered voters was conducted June 4-9 and has a sampling error margin of plus or minus 3 percentage points. The sampling based on the opinions of 331 Democrats polled had a sampling error margin of plus or minus 5 percentage points. AP Writer Devlin Barrett in Washington contributed to this report.