Poll: Hillary Clinton
receives 50 percent
By Marc Humbert
Associated Press Writer
ALBANY, N.Y. — Clearing a psy
chological and statistical hurdle,
Hillary Rodham Clinton has hit the
50 percent support level for the first
time in her Senate race against Re
publican Rick Lazio, according to a
statewide poll.
Clinton’s numbers had been
stalled for most of this year, but
some polls had detected a bounce
for her after their first debate, on
Sept. 13, during which Lazio strode
across the stage, thrust a piece of
paper at her and demanded she
sign a pledge to ban soft money
from the campaign.
Some voters, especially women,
were offended by what Clinton
spokesman Howard Wolfson called
a “menacing” approach.
According to the poll issued
Wednesday by the Quinnipiac Uni
versity Polling Institute, Lazio
trailed among likely voters with 43
percent. A Sept. 12 poll from the in
stitute had Clinton leading the con
gressman from Long Island 49 per
cent to 44 percent.
In recent weeks, the Lazio cam
paign has made much of Clinton’s
failure to hit 50 percent in the polls.
His campaign downplayed the new
poll Wednesday, with spokesman
Dan McLagan noting that statisti
cally, “there’s no change from the
last Quinnipiac poll.”
Lazio, professing a lack of con
cern as he campaigned in upstate
New York, did call himself “the un
derdog in this race” — a term he
hasn’t used in weeks.
Quinnipiac’s telephone poll of
889 likely voters, conducted Sept.
20-25, has a margin of error of plus
or minus 3 percentage points.
“We know this race is going to be
close, but it’s nice to hit the big five
oh,” Wolfson said.
While 38 percent of voters said
they viewed the first lady unfavor
ably — no real change from past
polls — Lazio’s unfavorable rating
reached 29 percent after heavy anti
Lazio TV advertising from the Clin
ton campaign and the congress
man’s aggressive performance
during the debate.
“I was for her already before the
debate and it made me feel for her
even more,” said Fran Goodstein of
Yonkers as she shopped Thursday
at the Galleria Mall in White Plains.
But Serena Maglio of suburban
Greenburgh said: “He thought he
had to do what he did and you can’t
tell me it was so terrible.”
In a discouraging note for Lazio,
the Quinnipiac poll found the race
extremely close in traditionally
more conservative upstate New
York, with Lazio at 46 percent and
Clinton at 44 percent.
In the New York City suburbs,
Lazio led 53 percent to 40 percent,
but in the heavily Democratic city
itself, Clinton was ahead 67 percent
to 39 percent.
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