Hillary Clinton Favored for VP if Biden Bows Out, Poll Finds
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Vice President Joe Biden says he’s “absolutely, positively” going to be President Obama’s running mate in 2012. But if he wasn’t?
A plurality of Americans would strongly prefer Hillary Clinton to step in to assume the VP role, according to a new “60 Minutes”/Vanity Fair poll.
Forty-three percent of adults said they favored Clinton as a Biden replacement when presented with a list of possible names by pollsters.
Billionaire businessman Warren Buffett, CIA director David Petraeus, Oprah Winfrey and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo all received single-digit support in the survey, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Clinton has remained a highly popular figure with voters, insulated from the political fallout over the lagging economy in her role as secretary of state. A recent Gallup poll found 66 percent of Americans had a favorable opinion of her, compared with 46 percent for Biden.
In a March interview with CNN, Clinton announced that she would leave her post if Obama won re-election. She also ruled out running for the presidency again, or joining Obama on the 2012 ticket.
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Who knows? She may even challenge Obama in 2012. But then the Obama-Clinton combo can be a formidable force, nonetheless.
Posted by: Marat | October 31, 2011, 1:51 pm 1:51 pm
Hillary Clinton is a better communicator than Joe Biden; how the heck Joe the VP bring a job bill to the elementary school and talk to our children like that ? Who can better fix our economy and job markets and lead our globalized free world to ensure that everyone will benefit ?
Posted by: NW | October 31, 2011, 3:00 pm 3:00 pm
Hillary Clinton is just plan boring and dull….At least Joe Biden is good for a few laughs!!!
Posted by: RadioMan77 | October 31, 2011, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
I’d rather see Hilary Clinton than Obama. If Edwards’ lies had come out sooner, it could have been . . . Think she’d switch to the GOP? Those clowns need all the help they can get. Just about anyone should be able to beat Obama now, and they still can’t come up with a decent contender! A dozen years of poor WH leadership has left its mark.
Posted by: LagunaTriMom | November 2, 2011, 1:53 am 1:53 am
Obama knows his numbers are down and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least if he gets rid of Biden and puts Hillary on the ballot with him. He would be dumb not to do so considering the fact he knows he’s steadily losing ground with the independent voters who are not happy with his empty promises.
Posted by: rightsideofmymind | November 2, 2011, 5:55 pm 5:55 pm
What an amazing team that would be ! I’ve given this some thought lately as we know how strongly she feels about National Health Care. She also knows that if Obama is not re-elected…National Health Care would be devoured. I like Biden, but we need someone to steal the show. She would be amazing & the Obama-Clinton team would be undefeatable !
Posted by: Sharon | December 2, 2011, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm
I love Hilary and I hope that she does run for president again really soon. She has to be better than Newt Gingrich and his three ring circus. Obama has had his chance and screwed it up, so lets put a woman in office now that has been around in the government and also a mother. She has worked harder by accident than all these men have on purpose. You Go Girl and you have always had my vote…
Posted by: Jacqueline Widup | January 25, 2012, 4:33 pm 4:33 pm
Not going to happen. It could have happened that Obama could have been her VP, but they went after each other throats.
It was only because the part was so bitterly divided that he even put her on the payroll to appease the party members.
Posted by: MPA | March 12, 2012, 11:37 pm 11:37 pm