Gallup: Hillary Clinton Still Beats Out The Boys

The Gallup poll out today has Hillary still leading in favorability over the president, the vice president, and her successor as secretary of state.  Whether numbers like these would hold if she were to step back into the arena is unclear.  What is most startling about these numbers, given Gallup's methodology, is the column on the far right.

April 23, 2013

Hillary Clinton Is Still Popular, More So Than Obama, Biden

Clinton starts with advantage over Biden if both run in 2016

by Andrew Dugan

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Though currently she is -- at least temporarily -- out of political life, former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton continues to enjoy a strong favorability rating, now 64%. Americans view Clinton more favorably than the president and vice president, as well as Clinton's successor, Secretary of State John Kerry.

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Here is How Gallup conducted the poll.

Survey Methods
Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted April 11-14, 2013, with a random sample of 1,012 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
For results based on the total sample of national adults, one can say with 95% confidence that the margin of sampling error is ±4 percentage points.
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