A poll shocker has been released by Newsweek magazine. The poll which is way off from any previous polls for the 2008 presidential race shows Democrat frontrunner Hillary Clinton trouncing Arizona republican John McCain, 50 percent to 43 percent, with 7 percent undecided in a 2008 race for the US presidency and Clinton is tied with America's mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Is this poll an outlier or is the Hillary boost for real? The poll is so far off, that the magazine does not mention it in the cover story about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Newsday notes that when asked why the poll numbers were left out of the story (they were in a press release promoting the cover) a Newsweek editor said the poll matchups were not pertinent to the cover story.
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Most recent polls show Clinton trailing both Republican frontrunners by substantial margins; A Los Angeles Times / Bloomberg survey last week showed McCain leading by a 50-to-36 percent gap - with Clinton trailing even worse among independent voters.
A Fox News poll earlier this month showed Giuliani comfortably ahead of Clinton.
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An earlier Washington Post poll and accompanying story noted that Rudy Giuliani enjoys strongly favorable ratings, according to their survey, with two-thirds of Americans giving him positive marks. His leadership after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, earned him widespread praise.
Hillary Clinton had the highest unfavorable rating in that poll, at 40 percent.
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Clinton supporters quickly touted the poll numbers. "For people who say she can’t win, these polls show she is winning, she is moving, she is growing in reputation nationally within the party,” Clinton pollster Mark Penn told the New York Post.
"For the first time in this poll [she is] defeating the likely opponents.”
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