Quinnipiac national poll: Clinton ties Cruz, leads Rubio by 1, Trump by 7

[Mr. Morden]

Quinnipiac national poll, conducted Dec. 16-20:

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2311

Clinton 47%
Trump 40%

Clinton 44%
Rubio 43%

Clinton 44%
Cruz 44%

Sanders 51%
Trump 38%

Rubio 45%
Sanders 42%

Cruz 44%
Sanders 43%

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Strange how Sanders does better against Trump but Clinton does better against Cruz/Rubio.

[MT Treasurer]

Clinton's awful favorability ratings among men and Independents will be a yuge problem for her in the general.

[Skye]

Clinton's awful favorability ratings among men and Independents will be a yuge problem for her in the general.

Well it has been like that for a while. Though the other candidates also have bad numbers.

[A Perez]

Clinton's awful favorability ratings among men and Independents will be a yuge problem for her in the general.

Why aren't they huge problems against Trump and Cruz, whom she leads in most polls?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Clinton's awful favorability ratings among men and Independents will be a yuge problem for her in the general.

Why aren't they huge problems against Trump and Cruz, whom she leads in most polls?

She has a white male problem, which speak volumns in Rust belt like OH, but her standing among Latinos, in Southwest, among women, like in NH & Blacks in Philly remain steller.

Like the Telemundo pol showed

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Its a 51/49 election, and the QU polls in Iowa & Colorado polls show it.  I dont see Clintom breaking through. Despite these polls

[Ebsy]

TNvolunteer, concern trolling as always.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

I concede that, Jeb or Rubio could have walked away with Colorado.

[EliteLX]

TNvolunteer, concern trolling as always.

You guys are really lucky that Republicans seem to have decided to throw this election away. If she's running against an electable Republican, Clinton will lose. You can write it down.

This.

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Now stop with the people saying Trump would win against sanders lol.

[mencken]

Given that even Republican primary voters are reluctant to admit they would support Trump, would it be reasonable to believe similar phenomena are at work in general election polling?

Can we just admit that swing voters are unicorns and that elections are ultimately won by turnout? The Republican establishment hopes to win by boring the electorate to death; Trump is going for the riskier strategy of exciting his loyal base, with the risk of inflaming the other side as well.

[King]

TNvolunteer, concern trolling as always.

You guys are really lucky that Republicans seem to have decided to throw this election away. If she's running against an electable Republican, Clinton will lose. You can write it down.

You don't understand--Republicans are throwing it away because they ARE the Republicans. The GOP incompetence factor was always the number one part of her inevitability. Obama would have lost 2012 to an electable Republican, too. This person does not exist. 

This was guaranteed to happen in some form for any person  with their eyes open enough to realize the GOP was a dumpster fire waiting to ignite.

Look at the evolution.  Jeb and Kasich were supposed to be the electable ones over the summer and they're just as unpopular as Trump with the general election sample now. Rubio is popular at the moment because he's been effectively MIA. If he actually became the frontrunner he'd be 20 points underwater with general voters favorability within a month.

These people are not likable or electable. Trump actually has the best shot of winning because he knows how to play dirty. But this was not going to be a winnable election on style or substance for the Republicans.

[RFayette]

Cruz is doing surprisingly well in these polling matchups.  I don't expect it to hold up, but I do like the looks of it for now.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

He polls worse than Rubio, Cruz is fair game because he obstructed govt in 2013, with shutdown & repeal of Obamacare.