Public Favors Senate Bid by First Lady
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the choice over New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani in a hypothetical New York state election for the U.S. Senate, and 78% of Americans think she would be at least somewhat effective as a senator, according to polls released Saturday.
In a Time/CNN poll of registered voters in New York state, 52% said they would vote for the first lady, and 43% said they would vote for Giuliani if the election were held now.
Newsweek magazine found in a national poll that 41% of respondents said the first lady would be very effective if elected to the Senate; 37% said she would be somewhat effective; 9% said she would not be too effective; and 7% said she would not be at all effective.
The Newsweek poll interviewed 502 people age 18 and older on Feb. 19. The poll’s margin of error is plus or minus 5 percentage points. The Time/CNN poll queried 819 registered voters of New York state Feb. 17-18 and has a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points.
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