Former President of the United States Bill Clinton is as popular today as when he was inaugurated in 1993. A new Gallup poll shows that 66 percent of Americans have a favorable view of Irish American Clinton.
The poll’s favorable results are welcome news for Democrats in the run up to the Democratic National Convention where Clinton is set to be the most influential speaker other than Obama. Clinton will formally nominate Barack Obama as the Democratic Party’s 2012 nominee for president, reports The Hill.
According to the survey’s results, “Clinton's solid popularity with Americans today might help attract new support to Obama from outside the party, particularly from whites, men, seniors, and political independents -- all important voting groups that Obama is struggling with in trial heats against Republican Mitt Romney.”
The Convention will run from 3rd to 6th September, in Charlotte, North Carolina. On 5th September, Clinton is set to discuss the US economy while also formally announcing Obama’s nomination.
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who will chair the convention, told USA Today, “President Clinton oversaw the longest economic expansion in U.S. history, pursuing many of the same policies that President Obama is proposing and implementing today.”
Obama’s senior strategist David Axelrod added that Obama personally chose Clinton to deliver this speech. He said “There's no one around who has greater standing to talk about the economy, about where we've been and how to build a strong economy for the future."
Back in 2008, Clinton’s speech in support of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign was seen as a major boost for the first-time president, winning him the support of those who had previously backed Hillary Clinton.
The new poll shows that Clinton would influence Republican voters with almost half (44 percent) of Republicans polled agreeing that they viewed him favorably. Clinton could up Obama’s numbers among non-white voters and young voters with 80 percent and 71 percent, respectively, showing support. Sixty-eight percent of men and 63 percent of women view Clinton favorably.
In the past, Clinton’s lowest rating in this type of poll was 28 percent.
This survey involved 1,014 adults, from across the 50 states. The survey took place between the 9th and 12th July 2012.
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.whiteycat | Sep 04, 2012, 11:13 AM EDT
Clinton cant come back as prez but his wife can apply for the job. But if you think she would take much Bill ideas as opposed to her own think again. In a new Clinton admin we would see even more USA given to China.
hooligan6a | Aug 18, 2012, 09:57 AM EDT
66% ? They really are a bunch of sick people.
peterson | Aug 04, 2012, 02:36 PM EDT
He was a better president than Obama !!!
BrianO | Aug 03, 2012, 11:33 AM EDT
BRIAN O 7:56 is not mine, I do not consider Obama likeable. Dangerous, devious, deceitful, would be more appropriate.
BrianO | Aug 02, 2012, 08:08 PM EDT
have tried 7 times to provide romneys school records but IC will not list them.
BrianO | Aug 02, 2012, 07:56 PM EDT
Well, thats one view of history. We conservitives obviously have a different recollection of Clintons stay in the White House. Plus most of the blame for our financial crisis can be laid at the feet of Frank and Dodd and made worse by the messiah Obama. Who can only go around whining and blaming Bush for everything. Huh, not a sign of real leader. Obama may likable, a good father and husband but he is NOT a leader which what is needed.
seanomelb | Aug 02, 2012, 07:36 PM EDT
I wonder what happened the trillion dollars he left in the bank!!!
BrianO | Aug 02, 2012, 02:46 PM EDT
@mac31 jflanagan 10:34 was of course me.Sorry jflanagan. Clinton was/is a master politician, and a pragmatist.
jflanagan | Aug 02, 2012, 02:06 PM EDT
Clinton also spent less than 20% of GDP for much of his two terms and, instead of crying about not getting his way, stayed in D.C. to work his charm with the congress to come to compromises on legislation. I didn't like his waving his finger at us on tv and lying about an affair but he was persuasive, encouraging and got things done.
jflanagan | Aug 02, 2012, 10:34 AM EDT
@mac31, I watch both types and decide, lets see who tampers with audio to get racist comments? (Martin), who had fake evidence about george bush being awol?(dan Rather). Who accused the colorado shooter being a teaparty member? The best one was way back when newt was being attacked for his stance on medicare, newt said he would like to revamp the medical system so that it was so far superior to medicare that medicare would die on the vine, it was reported that newt wanted seniors to "die on the vine". The truth is your STATIST views are being shown to be what they are ANTI- FREEDOM. That's fine fine for you if you wish, but I want individual freedom not a governmental overlord.
hancock | Aug 01, 2012, 11:01 PM EDT
Welfare reform, nafta, capital gains tax cuts, internet bubble. Those were the days.
McNamara31 | Aug 01, 2012, 09:58 PM EDT
@BrianO "The days of one liberal news" Just one more of those "stale old FOX-isms". Truth is people watch FOX for one reason and one reason alone...its a place where they can have their bias reinforced and supported.Fox News is run by ex Nixon operative Roger Ailes. That alone tells you its not news, or factual, but pure straight out "prop".
Cyn | Aug 01, 2012, 08:39 PM EDT
As much as I liked Bill Clinton, he allowed Glass-Steagall to be overturned under his watch, ultimately leading to the collapse of the world economy. Good man, but gullible. His wife, Madame Secretary of State, Hilary Clinton, would make a better successor. I think our current President Barrack Obama is doing an admirable job righting wrongs set in place by former administrations.
BrianO | Aug 01, 2012, 06:53 PM EDT
@Mac31, you seem very afraid of Fox news, The days of one liberal news feed are over, CNN,MSNBC,CBS,NBC,ABC, scare me not.
seanomelb | Aug 01, 2012, 06:50 PM EDT
The GOP almost destroyed America(financially) under Bush and then they have the temerity to blame Obama.Romney promises more of the same and he could win the election. This says a lot about the American electorate.
BrianO | Aug 01, 2012, 06:41 PM EDT
Only one fact matters for economic prosperity, what % of GDP goes to government. Below 20% prosperity above 20% Tyranny. As you get Progressively higher you lose more freedom as the government beast must be fed. Government receives all it's revenue from the governed, 100%, the governed create the wealth, government runs on what it confiscates.
jamieLM | Aug 01, 2012, 05:52 PM EDT
@susan274: don't be an idiot. If Clinton were elected in Nov., he'd find a much more difficult situation than he had the first time around. The country is more polarized, we're deeper in debt, still have housing foreclosures, the banks aren't lending money, the unemployment rate is higher, less jobs are being created in spite of all that stimulus money, and on and on. Just because someone is likable doesn't mean they can get the job done. No one will ever know if Clinton would have been able to ride to the rescue or if he would have had just as much trouble turning things around as Obama. Clinton agrees with Obama's policies for the U.S., so if O is re-elected, in another 4 yrs. we'll see if we're better off or not and what Clinton will be saying about it. BTW: I'm no fan of GW.
rpmschevy | Aug 01, 2012, 04:46 PM EDT
occassio if those Tax cuts (my money, your money if you are in America Legallly, and your dear Grandmother's money not the governments money, remember it is our's and not Obama or Clinton, or Bush) expire, then even more people will be having a hard time making ends meet. You cannot Tax to Prosperity. Your Grandmothers Dividend checks, if she or your grandfather invested wisely in say the old T stock, will go down. Your Grandmother's Social Security will be taxed at a higher rate (although due to age she is probably not making enough to be taxable).
McNamara31 | Aug 01, 2012, 04:02 PM EDT
occassio So very well said and true.We need many more to post the true facts of the Bush era deregulation and its effects on the economic collapse of the middle class. Truth and facts are snuffed out daily, by the power of corporate interests who make people believe more deregulation and more trickle down economics are the answer. Truth is, in the last decade more than half of America's manufacturing jobs have been shipped overseas, and more and more American worker are stripped of benefits and made to be nothing more than a worker on a corporate plantation with no security now, and if Paul Ryan has his way no security in their old age either. People have to wake up and stop being fooled by the "He's not one of us message" and let the man get the job done instead of supporting political hacks to stand in his way and obstruct.Many times when I read posts on IC I get the feeling many who post here are retired living comfortably with their pension, social security and medicare and have no idea of the conditions this generation of American worker is dealing with.
cillowen | Aug 01, 2012, 03:16 PM EDT
better seeing him involved
JBRAFTREE | Aug 01, 2012, 03:06 PM EDT
Iokio, Don't know if Reps would vote against him at all costs, but I won't vote for him, and I didn't before. He's done things that take away my fleeting sanity. There is no battle here, except I think our Chief is selling us out.
occassio | Aug 01, 2012, 02:17 PM EDT
Handsome68. What does our (and the world’s) economic position have to do with Mr. Clinton’s marital infidelity? I can’t explain Mr. Clinton’s marital blunder. However, I do know that when President Bush took office in 2001, he inherited (from President Clinton) a $236 billion surplus.When President Bush left office, he saddled President Obama a $1.3 trillion deficit caused by tax cuts, war spending in Iraq and Afghanistan, and recessions. Did you honestly expect President Obama to reduce this to the pre-Bush era? However, if all of these tax cuts expired at the end of 2012, future deficits would be cut by about half, to sustainable levels. The next time you hear an argument against cuts for the wealthy, consider that there is an estimated sheltered (untaxed) $32 trillion in off-shore accounts, while many Americans are being asked to make the choice between food and fuel. My 92 year old mother is one of them.
lokionline | Aug 01, 2012, 01:54 PM EDT
"well that looks nice for Clinton but truth is we would take anybody, even Paddy Murphy down in Castletownbere over The Obama..."
You see @JimmieM... that's the problem you would vote for a dog over Obama. You and those who think like you would vote for Rush Limbaugh never mind Paddy Murphy.
You would likely vote for Eric Cantor and any or all Tea Party congress members if they ran for President.
These folks represent an extreme view and voters tend to be put off by extremists.
From a legislative perspective, Obama may not be the most effective person to have in the office of President due to the single minded "block Obama at all costs" strategy the house and senate republicans have adopted but he is extreme only from the perspective of Tea Party leaning Republicans and radical Libertarians. He is far from being an extreme in US or world politics.
PhillyHellion | Aug 01, 2012, 01:39 PM EDT
Obama is a shady shady cat..Clinton is too, cant stand any of them. course mitt romney is no better, I am about to dig up Grant and put him in office
JBRAFTREE | Aug 01, 2012, 01:01 PM EDT
Phlutie, that's because Michelle is not impressed with the Politicos currently in office. Could be because they are white. Just sayin'.
PhlutiePhan | Aug 01, 2012, 12:31 PM EDT
Jodi Kantor's book tells the read story about Obama's so-called love for the Irish. Michelle made very plain her resentment for Irish Catholic politicians with Daley and Madigan in particular. For gosh sake, they now have an Irish governor. Dan Ryan had Obama's Senate seat locked up until his wife, Geri the actress, secretly released information locked up by the courts. She is Hollywood and Obama stood to gain. There are almost as many Irish in America to African Americans at 12.6% to 12.2%. So, where's the beef (meat or anger), Mr. Obama?
FastEddy | Aug 01, 2012, 12:01 PM EDT
Mmmmm ... and Hilary, too? Maybe, maybe not.
McNamara31 | Aug 01, 2012, 11:59 AM EDT
handsome68 |"Why is it so very difficult for you liberals to understand that the economy is sinking" The difference, here is, we know why this has occurred (factually)rather than the Fox style biased reasons that so many ill informed have bought into. For example, just look at the deficit numbers created by Bush 1 and Bush 2, than compare to growth during Clinton and Obama . True, Obama's growth has not been as great however Clinton had a GOP pothole to climb out of, Obama had an economic GOP created Grand Canyon.
JimmieM | Aug 01, 2012, 11:58 AM EDT
well that looks nice for Clinton but truth is we would take anybody, even Paddy Murphy down in Castletownbere over The Obama...
ePHraimAg | Aug 01, 2012, 11:54 AM EDT
144% loss there. More than a Kilo short and a Columbian Prostitute. Too much British-Irish canon damage even for Billy Blythe !
susan724 | Aug 01, 2012, 11:52 AM EDT
jamieLM - Bill Clinton left office the second most popular President in the last 60 years - Kennedy was the first and still is. Clinton's popularity rate was in the high 60 percentile when he left office. Most men cheat, always have and always will and so do many women today and the numbers are growing,period! Get off your moralistic high horse and get real. Better a cheater than a mass murderer - can you say President "W" a mass murderer over a LIE!!!
susan724 | Aug 01, 2012, 11:43 AM EDT
Nicomas, you are spot on! Not one Republican Presidential candidate was seeking the backing of George W. Bush (who?) or Dick Cheney - better known as Dr. Evil. I have never seen this happen with any party candidates and their former Presidents! This speaks for itself!
Nicomax | Aug 01, 2012, 11:36 AM EDT
Look at it this way: Clinton to give major speech at the Dem convention in Charlotte, both of the Bush presidents not to be found in Tampa. When you have massive failures in your family, you attempt to find as many rugs and brooms as possible.
handsome68 | Aug 01, 2012, 11:35 AM EDT
Why is it so very difficult for you liberals to understand that the economy is sinking like the Titanic?? I agree with Commenter jamieLM below who implied that presidents should not be getting non marital blow jobs, certainly not during office hours and definitely not on the public dollar. They should be servicing WE THE PEOPLE 24/7, for all 4 years. We elect these supposedly smartest (people) in the room to fix things, not to talk but not do, and not to keep playing the old blame game.
irishbob | Aug 01, 2012, 11:34 AM EDT
I don't what Americans were contacted for this poll, but this is one American that has had enough of the Bill, Hillary, Chelsea, and any other Clinton that may come along. The Clinton's time, much like Obama, has come and gone.
jamieLM | Aug 01, 2012, 11:20 AM EDT
@susan274, sorry, but I don't think Hillary and Chelsea LOVED that their husband and father was getting blow jobs while in the Oval Office. People are often more popular once they're out of office, no matter what the office was. What a colossal waste of time to think about Clinton, or any other past POTUS, back for a 3rd term. It wouldn't be under the same circumstances as their previous terms, and I guarantee that no matter what they did the 3rd time around, half the country wouldn't like it and in a nanosecond would view them as "unfavorable."
susan724 | Aug 01, 2012, 11:12 AM EDT
Tom/piggy - Please ditch the "we" you could never speak for me. You don't "get it."
susan724 | Aug 01, 2012, 11:07 AM EDT
sparklemagic, yes you are absolutely correct. But only one Republican Senator, Richard Shelby of Alabama, opposed the repeal of Glass-Steagall. When Clinton signed the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999, repealing Glass-Steagall, Iowa Republican Jim Leach “hailed the successful bipartisan effort after decades of failure.” You can thank the Senate, both Republicans and Democrats for that huge faux-pas! Actually, the major contributor to both the financial and housing crisis was Reagan's De-Regulation Program (St. Germain Act of 1982)and its effect was the S & L Crisis - this is really where it all began!
susan724 | Aug 01, 2012, 10:47 AM EDT
torbreezy - Are you talking about the Gingrich who was kicked out of Congress by his own peers and who recently vowed to "establish a colony on the moon" (you can't make this stuff up, folks) and was laughed right out of the Republican Presidential primaries, again, his own peers? The you mention sleaze ball "suck on the toe" Dick Morris (lol) he is so from the past and even Faux News has nothing to do with him any more - and that is as low as you cn go!
aobrien1 | Aug 01, 2012, 10:44 AM EDT
You based this on a survey of 1,014 adults? The only reason Clinton looks good is because of the Marxist clown occupying the White House now.
bob40wil | Aug 01, 2012, 10:43 AM EDT
If by us taking him back in a heartbeat over the clown that's in there now, we sure would but that's not saying much, pretty much anyone would be preferable.
susan724 | Aug 01, 2012, 10:35 AM EDT
"What a poor choice of words..." this is so your projection! The FACTS are that the American people have spoken - Clinton would be re-elected and we LOVE men who have sex and men who are sexy! The only alpha males the Republicans can come up with are the "WANNA BEs." Can you say "Mittens" Romney (LOL)!I mean Clinton is a Rhodes Scholar (Yale) and Obama was head of the Harvard Law Review- both are enormous accomplishments, both are obviously well endowed men in so many areas!
tom/peggy | Aug 01, 2012, 10:29 AM EDT
President Clinton's signature achievement (welfare reform) was just undone by our current President. We don't want an orator we need a leader!
torbreezy | Aug 01, 2012, 09:53 AM EDT
"The best argument against a democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter." Ponder Winston Churchill's quote in the light of those who are typically "polled" and their amnesia regarding history: Were it not for the Newt Gingrigh-led House and the "triangulation" counseled by Dick Morris, Clinton's presidency would be an oh-so-sad memory
sparklemagic | Aug 01, 2012, 09:25 AM EDT
Clinton signed the signed the reversal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which was designed to prevent financial institutions from getting too big to fail. We know how that ended. I don't want him, or the banking deregulation he promoted, back.