Gallup: Hillary best known 2016 candidate, but not the most-liked

[Tender Branson]

... the most liked is actually Carson, despite only having 28% name recognition:





Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted March 2-4, 2015, on the Gallup U.S. Daily survey, with a random sample of 1,522 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±3 percentage points at the 95% confidence level. All reported margins of sampling error include computed design effects for weighting.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/181949/clinton-favorability-familiarity-bests-2016-contenders.aspx

[Pyro]

Oh, Frothy, you have no chance in hell.

Also, doesn't the Carson thing just mean that he has a core group of supporters? 28% familiarity is abysmal for someone hoping to be president.

[Beet]

The title is kind of misleading. Hillary is statistically tied as the most-liked here, with a guy who only 28 percent have an opinion of. With so many people in the list, that's pretty impressive, IMO.

I've never seen a candidate with such a huge gap between the view of her in the press/online commentators, and polls. It's pretty astounding, actually. If she runs, it'll be like the ultimate martial arts duo between the masters of two different "styles", to see which style is best. Style 1 is intangibles such as media coverage, Washington Post.com & other online comments, and so on. Style 2 is polls. Which is the leading indicator?

[IceSpear]

The title is kind of extremely misleading.

Fixed. Just more spin. What person in their right mind would choose a 20-8 favorability rating over a 50-39 one?

[Old Man Willow]

The title is kind of misleading. Hillary is statistically tied as the most-liked here, with a guy who only 28 percent have an opinion of. With so many people in the list, that's pretty impressive, IMO.

I've never seen a candidate with such a huge gap between the view of her in the press/online commentators, and polls. It's pretty astounding, actually. If she runs, it'll be like the ultimate martial arts duo between the masters of two different "styles", to see which style is best. Style 1 is intangibles such as media coverage, Washington Post.com & other online comments, and so on. Style 2 is polls. Which is the leading indicator?

Hillary always has a 85-95% national favorability rating with Democrats in polling, but if you only at Democratic comments here, on Dailykos, or pretty any other online group, including virtually every liberal commentator on Youtube (along with their user comments), you would think it was 80-20 negative, at least.

[Lief 🗽]

It's really pathetic the extent to which the media is going to attack Clinton.

[King]

What kind of voodoo math is this i don't even

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Ben Carson also does best in swing state North Carolina. I would encourage Republicans to nominate him.

[Maxwell]

What kind of voodoo math is this i don't even

Why, it's subtraction!

[morgieb]

Eh? Only one with better likability is Carson, and how many people know him as a politician?

[Mercenary]

I will never understand how she can have such high favorability when she hasn't really done anything special compared to anyone else.

[Mr. Morden]

WaPo takes the Clinton favorability data from Gallup over the last 20+ years, and produces the following plot:



The blue line is her net favorability rating (they say "approval", but it's really favorability).  The red line is the %age of people saying they have no opinion of her.