Hillary Clinton More Popular Than The President
Posted Dec 30, 2009 at 10:15 AM by Maurice Berger
According to a recent survey by the Clarus Research Group, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton maintains a higher approval rating as Obama's
secretary of State than Obama as president. The poll of registered voters self-identifed as "news
watchers," reported Obama's approval rating at 51% (to 45% disapproval). According to CQ Politics analysis of the poll: "Clinton -- who lived in the White House as first lady to President
Bill Clinton and later was a U.S. senator from New York -- enjoyed an
approval rating as secretary of State of 75 percent to 21 percent
negative. Clinton's performance in her Cabinet post received the approval of
96 percent of the Democratic respondents. But what is truly remarkable
is that Clinton, who had very few Republican fans as first lady,
senator or presidential candidate, received approval from 57 percent of
Republican respondents, as well as 65 percent of independents."
