Hillary's awful Iowa poll numbers

Via Power Line, the Des Moines Register's David Yepsen reports just how unpopular Hillary Clinton is in Iowa:

This survey is a further measure of just how unelectable Clinton may be. She loses Iowa, albeit by tiny margins, to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, two relatively unknown guys who lose the state to Democrats Vilsack, Kerry and Edwards.

Among all Iowa voters, Clinton is viewed unfavorably by a whopping 49 percent of the electorate. Only 43 percent see her in a favorable light, and 8 percent aren't sure. Whenever a candidate's unfavorables exceed their favorables, there is trouble ahead.

And this is before she suffers from two years of negative press and Republican attacks. Will she get to sixty percent unfavorable? (For more on Hillary's prospects, see this more comprehensive post from June, which discusses her 46 percent unfavorable rating among independents nationally.)

Comments

[Seth]

Whoa there Brendan. I agree with your premise, but you seem to be suggesting that Iowa is somehow important nationally. Other than being early in the primary process, Iowa is not a significant state. Its whopping 7 electoral votes put it on par with states like Oregon and Oklahoma. The only mitigating factor is that it is a "purple state".

Case in point, I'd like to see Governor Vilsack's polling in any state other than Iowa. Outside the Hawkeye state most Americans say "Tom who?"

Also have you seen Rev. Falwell's remarkably Hugo Chavez-like comment about the Junior Senator from New York?