Poll: NYers expect, don't support Hillary for Prez

Six in ten New York voters believe Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is planning to run for president in 2008, but only about a third of her home-state voters say they would back her if she did so, the New York Post reported Thursday.

Almost half of New York voters, including three of every ten Democrats, said they would not vote for her for president, according to the poll from the Siena College Research Institute. 60 percent of respondents, including 67 percent of Republicans polled, said they believed Clinton would run for the White House while 36 percent — 55 percent of Democrats, but 16 percent of Republicans — said they would vote for her if she made such a run. 48 percent said they would not a Clinton presidential candidacy.

The Siena findings "mirror those reported by Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion in a January poll that found 59 percent of New York voters said they expect Clinton to run for president, but 62 percent said it was unlikely she could win."

Meanwhile, a California Field poll showed that 47 percent of voters in that state would support Clinton for president, and 42 percent would not. Those surveyed who did support Clinton "tend[ed] to be young, ethnic, liberal and either non-Christian or nonreligious," reported the San Diego Tribune Friday.

The Field poll also found that "men are strongly opposed to Clinton, as are voters over 50 years of age."