Clinton trails Republicans in three swing states

Sanders trails the same three candidates in Virginia by wider margins, ranging from 7 to 10 percentage points.

Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, said in a release that Clinton’s numbers also are dropping in other swing states such as Iowa and Virginia.

The telephone survey by Quinnipiac University found that when voters were asked who they would support in matchups with three of the 17 Republican contenders, the former secretary of state narrowly lost to Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush.

Clinton also gets noticeably negative favorable to unfavorable ratings in all three swing states: 35 percent favorable to 56 percent unfavorable in Colorado, 33 percent to 56 percent in Iowa and 41 percent to 50 percent in Virginia. In April, 45 percent of Iowa voters viewed Clinton favorably, but that number is now down to 33 percent, possibly due to Clinton’s use of a private email address while heading the State Department, as well as a controversy surrounding the millions of dollars in foreign donations that went to the Clinton Foundation during that time.

“The trend of Quinnipiac polls in the state of Colorado for her have been consistently going down”, Ciruli said.

Bush would defeat Clinton in Colorado 41% to 36%, in Iowa 42% to 36% and in Virginia 42% to 39%, according to Quinnipiac. According to the poll, Clinton trails all three candidates in all three states, sometimes by a substantial margin.

REUTERS/Jim YoungU.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton listens to remarks at a roundtable campaign event with small businesses in Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States, May 19, 2015.

These numbers seem worse than normal and we shouldn’t take near 2-to-1 unfavorables as the definitive picture of the public’s receptiveness to Hillary Clinton.

The title of worst favorability rating among the entire presidential field, Democrat and Republican, goes to Donald Trump.

Because these are the opinions of the general election voter pool, the results aren’t a barometer of candidates’ performance in the Democratic or GOP caucuses, scheduled for February.

More Iowa voters have a negative view of reality TV star Donald Trump than of any other contender – but Clinton does almost as badly.

The result is at odds with all major national polling so far this month, which has Clinton leading Republicans to various degrees.

More voters in Iowa and Virginia prefer Bush than in Colorado, as well as others like Chris Christie and Mike Huckabee. Against Walker, Clinton trails by 38-47 in Colorado against Walker, 37-45 in Iowa, and 40-43 in Virginia.