It's been repeated a hundred time. Do you believe it will work?

Get a real job, please, it's tiresome.

From the same poll:

"Strongest Leadership: Clinton holds a commanding lead over Edwards and Obama, 36% - 23% - 20%. Richardson (9%) trails badly on leadership.

* Handling of Iraq: Clinton (27%) leads Obama (19%), Edwards (18%) and Richardson (16%).

* Protecting Against Terrorism: Clinton leads the field by a wide margin, picked by 27%, compared to Edwards, at 19%, Obama at 15%, and Richardson at 14%."

What do you think will be more important in the primaries/caucuses, and in November 2008: the trifecta of strong leadership, handling of Iraq and protecting against terrorism OR the single issue of whether the voters "like" a particular candidate ??.

The question is which candidate is most likable...because Hillary is not the top choice there does not mean people view her as unlikable...

This stat will take a very large backseat to the qualities that voters say Hillary excels at...as shown in this poll

Btw, I've always though (and continue to think) that Howard Dean is a mean SOB, yet he's the one I gave my first ever political money donation to back in 2003.  "Likeability" does not necessarily translate into political support.

The time polling outlet SRBI has no track record in political polling if you go to their website.

http://www.srbi.com/srbi_today.html#

Most of their work has been focused on commerical areas such as branding, consumer survey etc. They only political polls they've done so far are for Time magazine.

http://www.srbi.com/srbi_today.html

I only did a preliminary check, their polling results over the past few months did not match up well with other well-known polling firms specialized in politics. For instance, their last national poll was conducted in April.  The number was:

Clinton 33
Obama 26
Edwards 25

I checked pollster.com, no other polling firm showed such Edwards 'surge' in that period of time. pollster.com did not even include their results, i'm not sure why. The headline from their April polling was quite revealing and laughable.

"Edwards' Momentum Continues/Giuliani Still Leads Among Republicans"

Although Hillary Clinton continues to lead the pack for the Democratic nomination, she faces continued pressure not only from Barack Obama but also now from John Edwards, whose momentum from late March continues in early April, according to the latest Time Poll of registered voters.

Take every poll with a grain of salt, the aggregate results were fairly accurate in 2006 election cycle.

this sort of disinformation is childish. The poll asks for 'the most likable', and you're trying to fool people it's some sort of 'unfavorable'.

lol.

Only 12% think Clinton is "most likeable" and yet 24% plan to vote for her. 30% think Obama "most likeable" but only 22% support him.

What does that tell us about likeability?

With a President everyone wanted to have a beer with.

I think we can do better.

I agree.  I still get Hillary jokes from some people that either think it is funny or dislike her so much.  I assume the right is circulating a many of these Hillary jokes.

If Hillary is the right person for the Dems I do not know why the Dems have been unable to elect anyone but a white southern male as president in recent history.  They have not even had any luck with a war hero like Kerry.

When you look at other polling of individual states, and when you look at the national numbers, Hillary has the highest approval of the top three among Democratic likely voters.   So how is it that this number in Iowa is so low?   Are Iowa Democrats 180 degrees from other Democrats?