Polarizing Politics

As the race for the Democratic presidential nomination moves forward, Hillary Clinton is hoping to chip away at Barack Obama’s delegate lead. But many Democrats feel that Obama would make the stronger general election candidate given Clinton's high negatives. Virtually every recent poll, including the NBC News/Wall Street Journal one shown nearby, suggests that Clinton has higher negative ratings nationally than Obama does. In the NBC/ Journal poll, 41 percent of Americans said they had negative feelings about Clinton, compared to only 25 percent who said that about Obama. Forty-seven percent felt positively about Clinton, compared to 49 percent who felt that way about Obama. Source: NBC News/Wall Street Journal, January 2008.