"What in my background equips me to deal with evil and bad men?" Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., asked rhetorically through a smile back in January.
Clinton played coy during that Iowa news conference, never clarifying which "men" she was referring to, but the numbers reveal that the men in her party are behind her White House ambitions in ever-strengthening numbers.
An ABC/Washington Post poll released Oct. 3 shows that 48 percent of Democratic men — a rise from 29 percent at the beginning of September — support her presidential bid.
When Clinton announced her candidacy in January, she used the slogan "Let the Conversation Begin…" "The Daily Show's" Jon Stewart quipped that it might give her trouble with male voters.
"Look, this might not be the most politically correct thing to say, but that might not help you with men," Stewart said. "I think the typical response would be, 'Now?'"
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