someone knows a thing or two about political comebacks i don t think we ve heard the last of hillary clinton. . i just have an instinct the best is yet to come. reporter: the best is yet to come. latest george washington university battleground poll show 60% view clinton favorably and vice president biden by double digits. among republicans former romney running mate paul ryan has highest favorable number at 47% and jeb bush at 39 and marco rubio at 33. clinton would start as frontrunner as she did four years ago and lost to senator obama. all this attention isn t necessarily a great positive, jenna. jenna: that s a great point. serves you right in the center spotlight right away. do you think any editors here would make any one of as you video in their spare time with a little musical act comepiment?
out. what speaker gingrich said there reflects what you re hearing a lot of republicans say in washington. they don t use quite the fatalistic terms that the speaker did, quite newtonian terms, but there s a widespread view among republicans that even though this should be their year, you have a 50/50 country and one party s had the white house twice in a row, you would think they d be due, but they believe that secretary clinton would be a prohibitive favorite to get the nomination and then a prohibitive favorite to beat the republican partly because they have such a long bench. there could be 20 people running for it. now, in that politico /george washington university battleground poll, great news for secretary clinton. 60% favorability. that s higher than the president, her boss. the president s at 52%. much better known than any of the republicans who might be running against her. marco rubio, the senator from florida, just one-third of people say he s favorable about him. that
a very careful book. sort of setting out that possibility. if she wasn t going to run, we could finally read the hillary clinton has seen it all book that some day she might like to write. nothing that could be used against her. a new george washington university/politico battleground poll, jodi, out this morning shows clinton s favorability rating is higher than that of president obama and vice president biden as well as some of the most tested republicans of the 2012 race. so what is it that right now gives her this broad and formidable political appeal? because this is certainly a turnaround from what we ve seen. because in 08, you know, she didn t lose the presidential election. she lost the primary to get there. so this is a big step forward in four years. it is. and, you know, her aides, her former aides, are just so delighted by it. they say there are people who worked for her all the way back in the white house who said to me when i reported this story, i finally feel like
the last five of six elections. none of their candidates won as many electoral votes as president obama did in 24 years. so, if they just look at the numbers, tekd tell they re being rejected, no matter who the candidates are, their policies are being rejected. that was one sad looking elephant. right. there have been a few polls out since the election that shows that if the republican party were more hospitable, both in terms of tone but also policies, that they could have picked off any number of the president s any number of votes from the president s coalition. the naacp has a battleground poll that shows if, for instance, the republican party were in line with african-american s thinking on civil rights and equality issues, they could have gotten 14% of that vote. lbgt voters told harrison
called the battleground poll which is a reliable poll that will show romney up five nationally. in the battleground states. no, the national poll. if the polls are generally correct it is difficult to imagine that ohio would be all that different. ohio has pretty closely tracked the national outcome for since about 1960. so it is certainly true and worth noting that mitt romney does not now lead in a single ohio poll. but i can t believe that that national poll wouldn t tell you you something about how iowa will go if the polls are, correct. chris: juan? i think the momentum stopped. obviously mitt romney had momentum after the first debate. is what we are looking at if you just say let s forget all of the complexity that we can hear from joe and karl, romney has never led in ohio. he has never led in nevada, wisconsin, iowa. never in none of the polls