Senator Clinton, Mayor Giuliani Top “Anti” Poll

In a new Fox 5-The Washington Times-Rasmussen Reports survey, coming at the top of the poll was not what a candidate wanted. The survey simply asked, “Sometimes people vote for a candidate mainly because they're voting against someone else. Which of the leading presidential candidates would you most want to prevent from becoming president?” Mrs. Clinton got the unsupport of 40%, and Mr. Giuliani was a distant second with about 17%.

Pollster Scott Rasmussen explained, “Hillary Clinton is better known than any [other] presidential candidate on either side. She has a lot of people who love her and a lot of people who hate her.” Familiarity breeds contempt, and who knows that Tom Tancredo is running for president, let alone caring enough to want to stop him?

What is especially interesting is that 53% of males under 40 don’t want Mrs. Clinton as president. The angry white man of the 1990s never warmed to the Clintons (and she’s actually less unpopular with men over 40 with a 41% “hate-her” rating), but these fellows are too young to have been part of the Gingrich crusade. Instead, it seems that in their minds going back to the future isn’t a good idea.

As for Mr. Giuliani, the 17% of those polled who don’t want him seem to be a mix. There are those who disapprove of his multiple marriages, some dislike his liberal views on gun control and gay rights, others lived in New York while he was mayor and know what a mess things were when the World Trade Center attack saved his reputation.

This poll raises an interesting possibility for electoral reform. Rather than vote for a candidate, the electorate could vote against a large slate of them. The less abrasive candidates would get fewer unvotes, and advance to the next round. Eventually, the ballot would be filled with patriotic Americans who don’t annoy their countrymen very much. Of such things could a bipartisan administration come.

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