re: Ds and Rs nominees-latest Quinnipiac poll

Secretary Clinton leads the Democratic primary with 58 percent, followed by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts with 11 percent, Vice President Joseph Biden with 9 percent and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo with 4 percent. No other candidate tops 1 percent and 15 percent are undecided.


The GOP primary shows U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky with 11 percent, New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush with 10 percent each, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin with 8 percent each, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio with 6 percent, no other candidate over 3 percent, with 20 percent undecided.


"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton takes a ton of heat on wealth, book sales and her legacy at the State Department, but she emerges with no serious Democratic challenger, while the Republican field remains clustered and flustered," said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.


In the 2016 presidential race, American voters back Hillary Clinton over leading Republican contenders:
47 - 38 percent over Christie;
49 - 40 percent over Paul;
49 - 40 percent over Huckabee;
48 - 41 percent over former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush;
48 - 41 percent over U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin.

In these races, Clinton's lead among women ranges from 16 percentage points to 19 points. The margin among men in each race is too close to call.


By a slim 48 - 43 percent margin, American voters have a favorable opinion of Clinton, but that tops all other contenders who get negative or divided favorability scores or where more than 50 percent of voters don't know enough about them to form an opinion.