Survey: Hillary Clinton too liberal for most voters
By Paul Bedard | December 8, 2014 | 10:39 am
Hillary Clinton has a new problem as she tries to tiptoe away from her former boss’ liberal policies and lay claim to her husband’s crown as ruler of the centrist Democrats.
According to a new survey of how voters view her politics, the former architect of Bill Clinton’s failed plan to nationalize healthcare, the one-time New York senator and President Obama’s first secretary of state is viewed as a true-blue lefty.
Pollster David Winston provided Secrets with his latest analysis that included his trademark political sliding scale that for the first time tested the public’s opinion of Clinton’s political pulse.
He found that on a scale of 1 for liberal to 9 for conservative, voters put Clinton at 3.6, to the left of the House Democratic Caucus and just shy of Obama’s 3.37, the most liberal on the chart.
Voters put themselves at a right-of-center 5.79, a yawning 2 points away from Clinton. Even independents registered to the right of the middle, at 5.56.
“Looking at 2016, the ideological spectrum should [be] concerning for Democrats, especially the likely front-runner Hillary Clinton. The good news for her is voters put her to the right of President Obama. The bad news for her is voters put her significantly to the left of where they put themselves ideologically,” Winston said.
And, he added, it could be especially bad if the election is a fight over liberal versus conservative policies, not personalities, where her “charisma” could parry GOP slaps.
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