Despite Early Campaigning, Name Recognition Stays about the Same

[illinoisprogressive]

Those who argue the polls right now are being driven more by name recognition than anything else could be right.
the following from Political Wire, shows that name recognition has not really changed since the first of the year.
This means many are choosing candidates in polls by name rather than candidate right now and account for the relative inactivity of poll movement right now.

"Despite the remarkably early start on this year's presidential campaign and the high-visibility presence of the major candidates on television news shows and in televised debates, the name identification of the leading candidates or potential candidates has not changed much so far this year," according to a new Gallup Poll.

The leading candidates, in order of familiarity with voters:

* Hillary Clinton - 98%
* Rudy Giuliani - 86%
* John Edwards - 81%
* John McCain - 80%
* Barack Obama - 75%
* Mitt Romney - 46%
* Fred Thompson - 38%

http://www.politicalwire.com/

[skipos]

1. Hillary has the highest name recognition of all Dems, she should be polling better

in the general election polls. Instead, she underperforms Edwards and/or Obama about 95% of the time.

[William769]

2. Guess again.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3281090&mesg_id=3281090

[skipos]

3. Uh... no. I was talking about general election polls. Mondale kicked ass in the primaries too.

Where is she outperforming Edwards and Obama in general election polls? She has the most money, the biggest machine, and a popular ex-President for a husband, she should be beating McCain, Giuliani, Romney, Thompson, etc by bigger margins than Obama and Edwards. In 95% of the general election polls, she underperforms them.

[skipos]

4. dupe

dupe

[illinoisprogressive]

5. Hillary is like Blair Hull. He had name, money and establishment backing

however, he ultimately lost the dem. nomination for US Sen. due to scandal and this tall skinny guy with a funny name became the US Senator from Illinois.