Yesterday’s post here concerned a poll conducted by the Wall Street Journal and NBC that placed Jeb Bush! at the front of the Republican pack of presidential candidates and what that could mean to the GOP’s hopes of getting back into the White House. The WSJ/NBC released the complete set of poll results after I posted my posty post, post-posting.
One main takeaway from the poll, aside from what I noted previously, was that Hillary Clinton has a wide lead on the Democratic side of the run for President, as NBC pointed out:
Seventy-five percent of national Democratic primary voters favor Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination – compared with 15 percent who pick Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., four percent who choose former Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., and two percent who select former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley.
What’s more, 92 percent of Democratic voters say they could see themselves supporting Clinton for the Democratic nomination, which is up six points since March.
The more noteworthy part of this poll was that Hillary also would beat Jeb Bush! if the general election took place today:
Looking ahead to the general election, Clinton also leads Bush by eight points (48 percent to 40 percent), Rubio by 10 points (50 percent to 40 percent) and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker by 14 (51 percent to 37 percent).
Other matters of note in the poll…
Respondents split evenly regarding President Obama’s job approval rating, with approval and disapproval both at 48 percent. However, 61 percent of the respondents believed that the nation is off on the wrong track, while only 31 percent believed it was on the right track.
Concerning who would vote in the upcoming elections, 30 percent of the registered voters who responded to this poll said they would vote in the Democratic primary while 28 percent would vote in the Republican primary. 38 percent said they were going to wait until the general election to vote.
39 percent of these same registered voters told the pollsters that they would want a Democrat to win the White House. 36 percent of them said they’d prefer a Republican president to take over after the general election.
Hmm. As I’ve said, Republicans, you might want to start being concerned. With everything that’s happening in the nation–with the health care debacle, the abhorrent state of affairs among races and classes and figures of authority and sexes and religions and unions and businesses and greenies and apocalypse deniers and citizens and non-citizens and feelings and common sense and losing vital emails and making no differences and tastes great and less filling, and so forth and so on–so much conflict and rage and hopelessness of which have been initiated and perpetuated by the Democrats, it should be a piece of cake for the Republican nominee to take the seat behind the Oval Office desk.
It’s not a sure thing.
Yes, it is right to be skeptical of polls, especially when they’re conducted by outfits such as the Democrat-loving sycophants at NBC. So take the poll results with a grain of salt, and feel assured that there is still some time to change more hearts and minds.
But the results can’t be too far out of bounds from the truth. Inactivity in the process spells doom for those who are serious about getting our nation to come out of this mess with some semblance of real hope and change.
Put your pedals to your metals, patriots. Though the road ahead is getting to be winding, hilly, and treacherous, the race has begun. Procrastination on taking the wheel would not be wise.
End note:
In case you were wondering, the results stated that 1,000 adults were interviewed between June 14th and June 19th, “including 350 respondents with a cell phone only and 38 respondents reached on a cell phone but who also have a landline.” 48 percent were male. 52 percent were female. 83 percent of the respondents were registered voters. Lastly,
The margin of error for 1,000 interviews among Adults is ±3.10%
The margin of error for 236 interviews among Republican Primary Voters is ±6.38%
The margin of error for 247 interviews among Democratic Primary Voters is ±6.24%
