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From Newsday
Poll: No 3rd Clinton Term
1:38 PM EDT,October 14, 2002
By The Associated Press
By a growing margin, more than twice as many Americans feel U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should never run for president, according to a poll released Monday.
The Marist Institute for Public Opinion found 69 percent of Americans said the Democratic former first lady should never run for president. Twenty-six percent said she should run "someday." That's a steady decline in support since March 2001 when the poll found 30 percent felt she should run for president someday.
"There's been some erosion from numbers that weren't very good to begin with," said Marist pollster Lee Miringoff. "There's no groundswell that says there needs to be a third Clinton term."
Clinton's support was stronger in New York, the Northeast, California and among women, minorities and Democrats.
"Forty-two percent of Democrats who think she should run someday is something you can build on, but there's no one holding their breath, either," Miringoff said.
The national poll also found former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's popularity remaining strong nationwide.
Seventy-eight percent of the national electorate rated the Republican Giuliani favorably, compared to 82 percent in a similar poll last April, according to the survey by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
When people were asked if they had a favorable opinion about Clinton, 53 percent viewed her unfavorably, while 37 percent had a positive impression. Miringoff said this is the first Marist has polled her favorable ratings.
The results ran along party lines, with 66 percent of Democrats giving her favorable reviews, compared to only 9 percent of Republicans and 36 percent of Independents. The results were similar to a Marist poll six months ago.
"There is a love-hate relationship with her and when you get out of the Northeast, there's more of the latter and less of the former," Miringoff said.
The majority of those surveyed, 63 percent, said they expected Clinton to serve out her six-year term, as she has promised, and not run for president in 2004. Twenty-eight percent said they expected her to run for president in 2004. Nine percent were unsure.
Spokeswomen for Clinton and Giuliani didn't immediately return requests for comment Monday.
Giuliani and Clinton had faced off in the 2000 U.S. Senate race until Giuliani withdrew because of prostate cancer and marital problems. Clinton overcame high negative reactions in early polls to easily defeat Republican candidate Rick Lazio, a former Long Island congressman.
The poll's respondents were divided on their opinions of Giuliani's future, with 17 percent saying he should run again for mayor of New York and another 11 percent supporting an eventual presidential run.
Respondents also weighed in on other options for the former mayor, with 29 percent saying he should continue working as a business consultant. Giuliani, who runs a consultancy group, last week was hired to help rid Mexico City of its infamously high rates of kidnappings, robberies and murders. His popularity soared in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center for the way he managed the city.
The poll interviewed 1,000 people _ 769 of them registered voters _ at random by telephone on Oct. 9-10. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. When the registered voters were sampled separately, the margin of error increased to plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
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From Newsday
Poll: No 3rd Clinton Term
1:38 PM EDT,October 14, 2002
By The Associated Press
By a growing margin, more than twice as many Americans feel U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton should never run for president, according to a poll released Monday.
The Marist Institute for Public Opinion found 69 percent of Americans said the Democratic former first lady should never run for president. Twenty-six percent said she should run "someday." That's a steady decline in support since March 2001 when the poll found 30 percent felt she should run for president someday.
"There's been some erosion from numbers that weren't very good to begin with," said Marist pollster Lee Miringoff. "There's no groundswell that says there needs to be a third Clinton term."
Clinton's support was stronger in New York, the Northeast, California and among women, minorities and Democrats.
"Forty-two percent of Democrats who think she should run someday is something you can build on, but there's no one holding their breath, either," Miringoff said.
The national poll also found former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's popularity remaining strong nationwide.
Seventy-eight percent of the national electorate rated the Republican Giuliani favorably, compared to 82 percent in a similar poll last April, according to the survey by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion.
When people were asked if they had a favorable opinion about Clinton, 53 percent viewed her unfavorably, while 37 percent had a positive impression. Miringoff said this is the first Marist has polled her favorable ratings.
The results ran along party lines, with 66 percent of Democrats giving her favorable reviews, compared to only 9 percent of Republicans and 36 percent of Independents. The results were similar to a Marist poll six months ago.
"There is a love-hate relationship with her and when you get out of the Northeast, there's more of the latter and less of the former," Miringoff said.
The majority of those surveyed, 63 percent, said they expected Clinton to serve out her six-year term, as she has promised, and not run for president in 2004. Twenty-eight percent said they expected her to run for president in 2004. Nine percent were unsure.
Spokeswomen for Clinton and Giuliani didn't immediately return requests for comment Monday.
Giuliani and Clinton had faced off in the 2000 U.S. Senate race until Giuliani withdrew because of prostate cancer and marital problems. Clinton overcame high negative reactions in early polls to easily defeat Republican candidate Rick Lazio, a former Long Island congressman.
The poll's respondents were divided on their opinions of Giuliani's future, with 17 percent saying he should run again for mayor of New York and another 11 percent supporting an eventual presidential run.
Respondents also weighed in on other options for the former mayor, with 29 percent saying he should continue working as a business consultant. Giuliani, who runs a consultancy group, last week was hired to help rid Mexico City of its infamously high rates of kidnappings, robberies and murders. His popularity soared in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center for the way he managed the city.
The poll interviewed 1,000 people _ 769 of them registered voters _ at random by telephone on Oct. 9-10. The margin of error was plus or minus 3 percentage points. When the registered voters were sampled separately, the margin of error increased to plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.
