--- title: Poll Shows Support for Hillary Clinton Decline description: A new poll shows a sharp drop in Hillary Clinton's popularity over the past year, down to its lowest level since 2008. canonical: https://time.com/3768748/hillary-clinton-poll-decline/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-02T13:30:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-19T07:41:42.677Z article:section: Politics og:title: Poll Shows Support for Hillary Clinton Decline og:description: A new poll shows a sharp drop in Hillary Clinton's popularity over the past year, down to its lowest level since 2008. og:url: https://time.com/3768748/hillary-clinton-poll-decline/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt92ec9892a3800258/698785a4e20a870135a85ce7/clinton-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2560 og:image:height: 1440 og:image:alt: New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Poll Shows Support for Hillary Clinton Decline twitter:description: A new poll shows a sharp drop in Hillary Clinton's popularity over the past year, down to its lowest level since 2008. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt92ec9892a3800258/698785a4e20a870135a85ce7/clinton-3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Poll Shows Support for Hillary Clinton in Decline > Sponsored content. 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Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks to reporters at United Nations headquarters, March 10, 2015. Seth Wenig—AP  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Apr 2, 2015 1:30 PM UTC A new poll shows a sharp drop in Hillary Clinton’s popularity over the past year, down to its lowest level since Barack Obama beat her for the Democratic nomination in 2008. The [latest ABC News/Washington Post poll](http://time.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/1167a32016.pdf), conducted by Langer Research Associates, shows Clinton’s popularity down to 49 percent, from it’s all-time high 67 percent two years ago. This marks an almost even split between respondents who viewed her favorably and the 46 percent who said they viewed her unfavorably. Despite Clinton’s slip, the presumptive Democratic nominee still surpasses her potential GOP rivals. The poll asked respondents about six Republicans: Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul and Scott Walker. And all six had higher unfavorable ratings than favorable, with more than 50 percent of respondents saying they had an unfavorable view of Bush and Christie. Clinton has been mired in controversy recently over her [use of a personal email account](http://time.com/3731568/hillary-clinton-email/) while she was Secretary of State. ## Transcript You know, I'm not sittin' here some little woman standing here by my man like Tammy Wynette. I'm sittin' here because I love him, and I respect him. Now is our chance to beat the historical odds, and give the American people the health security they need. If there is one message that echoes forth from this. Let it be that human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all. The great story here for anybody willing to find it and write about it and explain it is this vast right- wing conspiracy that has been conspiring. Against my husband since the day he announced for president. I would be happy to, when you give me the signed letters. Well, right here. Right here. When you give me. Right here. Sign it right now. We'll shake. We'll shake on this, Ray. No, no, I want your signature, cause I think that everybody wants to see you signing something that you said you were for. You know, I have so many opportunities from this country. I just don't wanna see us fall backwards. Although we weren't able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you, it's got about 18 million cracks in it. The battle to stop Al Qaeda and its affiliates. Does not end with one death. What difference, at this point, does it make? It is our job to figure out what happened and do everything we can to prevent it from ever happening again, Senator. I took the unprecedented step of asking that the state department make all my work- related emails, [ MUSIC ] Public for everyone to see. 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