Hillary Clinton is the Democrat voters most want to see win her party’s presidential nomination in 2016 – and least want to see win that nomination, too. Among Democrats, she’s the overwhelming favorite.
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 63% of Likely Democratic Voters would choose Clinton if the 2016 Democratic presidential primary were held in their state today. Vice President Joe Biden is a distant second with 12% support. Several other prominent Democrats muster five percent (5%) or less support from voters in their own party. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Among all Likely Voters, Clinton leads the pack of possible Democratic contenders with 39% of the vote. But the former secretary of State also is number one when voters are asked which candidate they would least like to see win the Democratic nomination in 2016: 27% feel that way about her, but Biden’s a much closer second at 24%.
Clinton was also the favorite in August 2005, three years before the 2008 Democratic National Convention, but subsequently lost in the primaries to Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
As for the rest of the Democratic field in this survey, seven percent (7%) of voters would choose Biden or New York Governor Andrew Cuomo if the 2016 Democratic presidential primary were held in their state today. Three percent (3%) would choose Newark Mayor Cory Booker who is now running for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey. Two percent (2%) each like Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley and former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Twenty percent (20%) would choose some other candidate, and another 20% are undecided.
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