Poll: Hillary Clinton tops Obama, Biden in popularity

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens to her introduction before delivering one of her final speeches as Secretary of State at the Council on Foreign Relations on January 31, 2013 in Washington, DC. / Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hasn't announced any plans for the future, but a new survey out from Quinnipiac University suggests that she'll have plenty of popular support in whatever she plans to do -- at least for the time being.

According to the poll, conducted from Jan. 30 - Feb. 4 among 1,772 registered voters, 61 percent of registered voters have a favorable opinion of Clinton, putting her ratings in that category ahead of President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and a handful of top Republican politicians.

The poll has a margin of error of +/- 2.3 percentage points.

Mr. Obama, according to the survey, has a favorability rating of 51 percent, with 46 percent viewing him unfavorably. The president's job approval rating is split, at 46 percent to 45 percent, down from 53 percent approval/40 disapproval in December.

Vice President Joe Biden, who like Clinton is considered a top potential presidential contender for 2016, trails his former colleague by 15 percent in the favorability department: 46 percent of registered voters viewed Biden favorably and 41 percent viewed him unfavorably.

Thirty-four percent of registered voters said they view Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., favorably; 36 percent view him unfavorably.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., meanwhile, has higher favorable ratings (27 percent) than unfavorable (15 percent), but 57 percent of registered voters said they didn't know enough about him to judge. Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush was viewed more unfavorably (29 percent) than favorably (25 percent) and 45 percent of registered voters said they didn't know enough to say.

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, had the highest unfavorability rating in the batch, at 42 percent. Twenty percent of registered voters viewed him favorably.

Meantime, when it comes to the job performance of each party in Congress, Democrats only rate slightly better than Republicans among voters. Thirty-three percent of registered voters approved of how congressional Democrats are handling their job compared to 19 percent approval for Republicans.

[Barry-been-inhalin]

After 8 years of Obama and the misery he has forced on many Americans, many will say with Hillary will bring us back to the Bill Clinton days when things were better.

I have news for you.........Bill Clinton rode the Silicon Valley tech wave. He really had nothing to do with it.

[WooHoooman]

Most popular in America? She beat out #2 HERPES #3 Gonorrhea and #4 CANCER

[ccb5508]

some people might prefer herpes over her-

[hakori]

CCb5508, some would say the same of you.

[WooHoooman]

THANK YOU Quinnipiac University for the totally FAKE Popularity contest! Some sheeple may actually believe that Hillary should be PROM QUEEN!!

[outback_jackson]

"Thirty-four percent of registered voters said they view Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., favorably; 36 percent view him unfavorably".



How soon you fox/rush parrots seem to forget that this was your ayn rand boy with the mormon cultist YOU picked for 2012, and I just don't see anyone else in the GOP with anything close to Hillary's popularity!

Hint: Instead of incessant attacks on Hillary Clinton, you republicans need to find a candidate that has at least a little charisma for 2016, and none of the far-right tea potty extremism turning off voters!

[PollsAreForDemStrippers]

LOL! OutHouse believes in bogus and BS polls.
If Hillary is the best the Democrats can do you are also in big trouble.
Yes Pools are for Democrat strippers and buffoons.

[Cowmpound]

Poll

The "polls" were right on the money for the last election.

WELCOME BACK AMERICA!

[outback_jackson]

HAKORI replies: "The Bengazi orgy put on at Fox and the rest of the right-wing media is just their latest attempt at concocting a non-story. If you didn't live in that bubble, you'd know this".



Yes, first the fox political network propagandists tried the 24/7 attack with "Fast and Furious" to no avail, and then switched to the "Benghazi orgy" in order to 'try' to sway voters in the 2012 election, but the only ones that swallowed this highly-partisan attack, were the fox parrots!

Now we see that all the republicans are upside-down in their favorability ratings, with House Speaker John Boehner, having the highest unfavorability rating in the batch, at 42 percent. Twenty percent of registered voters viewed him favorably.

Go ahead -- attack Hillary Clinton all you want -- but that certainly doesn't help you find a GOP candidate that can beat her!

[PollsAreForDemStrippers]

LOL!...Outhouse_"Johnson" and "Hack"ori are everything they claim the Right is and twice as bad.
They accept a criminal like Obama with his selling guns to the Mexican drug cartels and Obama allowing our Ambassador and three Americans to be murders because he was too busy campaigning and couldn't be bothered to protect them. All of America knows that is true without a poll being taken.
A lot can change as Slick Willie just said and told people like you to stop being c-o-c-k-y, belligerent.

Polls are for idiot Democrats who believe everything the left wing media puts out their like it is the real truth.
Too Hilarious!

[hakori]

PollsAreForDemStrippers, the bubble, man, the bubble. I make no claims about the GOP; I simply make observations. Are we now going back to one of the previous Fox conspiracies: Fast and Furious? Really? By the way, who started that program? Whose adminstration? That's right, Bush. But somehow it has morphed into another Obama conspiracy. Listen to yourselves... Answer this one question: what would Obama have to gain from fast and furious if any of what you say about it were true? Just tell me what was in it for him. I'll tell you, none of the right wing conspiracies make any sense to me. Let's take climate change: the liberal greenie scientists are making it all up so they can get quadrillions in grant money, at least that's what I take away from it. It doesn't matter that the data are bearing them out. It doesn't matter that almost all of their climate models prediciting future climate impact from the burning of fossil fuels have been far too conservative. It doesn't matter that things predicted for the latter part of the 21st century are happening now. You see, I think there is no conspiracy at all going on here. I think it's all out in the open in you choose to look. Big energy has a vested interest in casting enough doubt and confusion over climate change so the public doesn't demand they clean up their acts. Big energy has a vested interest in not having to cut into their bloated profits by cleaning up there acts. It's all about priorities and the energy companies put profit above the health of the planet and in turn, us.

[ccb5508]

this shows how dumb Americans are these days-- they still support a woman who just recently turned her back on Americans, and then blamed a video as the reason for the attacks--

[hakori]

No, this just shows how dumb your comment is. She did not turn her back on Americans. The Bengazi orgy put on at Fox and the rest of the right-wing media is just their latest attempt at concocting a non-story. If you didn't live in that bubble, you'd know this.

[ccb5508]

apparently you didn't watch or hear what Panetta said--
and...you think 4 Americans getting murdered is a "non story"?? Well....at this point...."does it even matter"? Classic quote from an arrogant person who wouldn't admit she was wrong--
Are you also saying that they didn't blame the murders on a video? Talk about living in a bubble!

[Waffledoc]

Go to the poll link above and scroll all the way to the bottom and click the link "demographics" and look at the results. 24% GOP and 33% Dems. With 34% independents. Most did not have a college education (2 to 1) and that accounts for the "not enough information" answer on a lot of questions. The low information voter.

[outback_jackson]

LOL! Maybe you should bring in fox's ol' dickie morris for some more of his old fashioned predictions, since you didn't like Nate Silver's 2012 election prediction, or any of the other polling!

What was that from dickie morris -- oh yeah....romney landslide!

[tvwatcher5345]

my republican friend who voted for bush 43 twice is upset obama got re-elected, but says people will be sick of the democrats soon, i told him hillary will probably be elected next, i told him republican women will even vote for her, he just glared, if she does win i think he will have a coronary

[Waffledoc]

As long as the media,,like CBS, refuse to dig deep into situations and accept anything Hillary and Obama say as truth, they will continue to be popular. And as long as they keep playing the class warfare game, and keep giving the "47%" more freebies, they will be popular. Hillary and Obama have not been held accountable for what happened in Libya. Was there gun-running? If there was, who knew? Even if there were no "identifiable" targets, if a couple F-16s had buzzed the place, I'll bet a bunch of people would have scammed. Our government DID NOTHING while Americans died, and it was no big deal to the press. The Democrat Party has no morals, they only care about power and will get and keep it any way they can. I hope you can live with knowing that and that you are a part of it!

[hakori]

waffledoc, you are the perfect example of the misinformed righ-wing "news" consumer. And I'll bet my best pair of shoes you fall into Mittens definition of the 47%.

[SbroCali]

She should have been fired over Benghazi. She said herself "I take full responsibility" but four other govt workers got fired and for some absurd reason she didn't get drummed out! Congress even said during the hearings(not verbatim) "If I was President, and you said you didn't read the cables, that the cables didn't pass by your desk, you would be looking for another job right now!" The President must have covered her a**! It's not right! She should never hold an official position again, she got four people killed, those deaths are on her as far as I'm concerned!

[hakori]

SBROCALI, eureka! You have the latest right-wing conspiracy theory: Obama covered her a**, what else did he cover... hummmmm

[ccb5508]

One thing he DIDN'T cover is the tab he's running up on the American people-- That's OK....just put it on the Underhill's tab-

[outback_jackson]

Poll: Hillary Clinton tops Obama, Biden in popularity



Not to mention every republican as well!

[PollsAreForDemStrippers]

But these kinds of polls are for the feeble minded, the gullible and the ignorant sheeple masses.
LMAO!