Bad News for the GOP: from Politicus: A new poll released by Roanoke College on Tuesday shows that the GOP is in serious trouble in their bid to take the White House in 2016. The poll was done in New York, New Jersey and Virginia. While, predictably, New York and New Jersey both showed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton well in the lead, the results for Virginia were a little surprising and have to be discouraging for Republicans. The poll revealed that in matchups with New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, Clinton is well in the lead against all three. Considering that Virginia is a ‘swing’ state, and the GOP needs to flip at least a few states in 2016 to have a chance, this doesn’t bode well for them. Against the embattled Christie, Clinton holds a solid eight-point lead, 48-40. Against Tea Party darling Paul, her lead widens to 14 points. Ryan also trails by double-digits, 51-40. The poll also shows that Christie, while still relatively popular in his home state despite his recent troubles, would still get beat soundly there if he faced off against Clinton. While Christie fared much better in Jersey than either Paul or Ryan, he still trails Clinton by 10 points, 51-41. Paul trails by 29 and Ryan by 25 points. In New York, no GOP candidate comes within 33 points of Mrs. Clinton. Clinton’s favorability rating is quite high in Virginia, and far ahead of these three potential GOP candidates. 56% of Virginia residents hold a favorable view of the former First Lady, compared to 28% who see her negatively. Meanwhile, Christie is pretty much net-neutral on favorability in the state, with 38% seeing him positively while 37% have an unfavorable view of him. Paul is slightly net-negative with Virginia residents, as he’s at 32% favorable against 36% negative. 40% of Virginians see Ryan in a positive light while 32% do not like him personally. This poll seems to compare favorably with recent polls in battleground states that show Clinton is well in command. While still obviously early, it has to be frustrating for the GOP to see the Democrats with a solid candidate in place with high visibility and who is generally well-liked. Meanwhile, they have NO idea who they might be running at this point. They don’t even have 2 or 3 potential favorites. It is a complete crap shoot at this point. Currently, the GOP is in the same situation as 2012 in regards to electoral votes, if not worse. President Obama won by 126 electoral votes and he lost two states from the election before (North Carolina and Indiana.) It is possible, at this point, that Clinton could pick up North Carolina again and maybe even another one or two. States like Georgia, Missouri or Arizona have the potential to flip, especially for a strong candidate like Clinton. Unless, the GOP somehow gets Clinton not to run, or finds some magical candidate that energizes the nation for them, they have almost no chance in winning in 2016. Hillary Clinton as the 2016 Democratic candidate makes it nearly a foregone conclusion that the White House stays Blue. GOP’s 2016 Chances Fading As Hillary Clinton Holds Commanding Lead In Virginia was written by Justin Baragona for PoliticusUSA. © PoliticusUSA, Tue, Mar 4th, 2014 — All Rights Reserved → Read more about Justin Baragona ← You may also be interested in... Hillary Clinton Way Ahead Of Every GOP Candidate In Battleground State Of OhioHillary Clinton Way Ahead Of Every GOP Candidate In… Quinnipiac University released a new poll on Thursday showing that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton holds double-digit leads on nearly every potential GOP candidate. 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In this latest poll, Clinton has widened the gap to thirteen points, 50-37. 8 Responses to GOP’s 2016 Chances Fading As Hillary Clinton Holds Commanding Lead In Virginia JustADumbFireman Reply to JustADumbFireman Tue, Mar 4th, 2014 at 1:24 pm Pssst: Hillary hasn’t confirmed that she’s running. JustAGuy Reply to JustAGuy Tue, Mar 4th, 2014 at 1:43 pm Ohhhh, she’s running alright! Anne Reply to Anne Tue, Mar 4th, 2014 at 1:54 pm While her commanding leads in states like Ohio and Virginia are good news, I do NOT for one moment put it past Republicans to try pulling some stunt that would give them a ill-gotten victory. That’s why all of us who don’t want them anywhere near the White House, government mansion, or city/country seats need to vote en masse this year. Until their defeats are assured, there’s no room for complacency. DownriverDem Reply to DownriverDem Tue, Mar 4th, 2014 at 2:12 pm Never trust repubs. They are lying bastards. My mother taught me that as a child. It’s been true my whole life. Their voters are the rich and the non-rich brain washed propagandized folks who are just full of hate. ibwilliamsi Reply to ibwilliamsi Tue, Mar 4th, 2014 at 3:37 pm “Their voters are the rich and the non-rich brainwashed and unwashed propagandized folks who are just full of hate.” Sugapea Reply to Sugapea Tue, Mar 4th, 2014 at 3:43 pm My Grandfather was Democratic Mayor of his town and told me as a child… “Democrats are for the People, Republicans are for the Rich”! We should be telling that to our Children, Grandchildren and Everyone we know! Steve Reply to Steve Tue, Mar 4th, 2014 at 4:08 pm let’s focus on 2014 there’s a lot on the line we have to hold the senate & other things Astorix Reply to Astorix Tue, Mar 4th, 2014 at 4:41 pm As I get older aim getting more liberal. That old expression “those who are not liberal when they are young have not heart those who are liberal have no head” is actually a bastardized version of a quote said by a French aristocratic royalist who said to the effect that those who don’t have Republican sentiments when they are young have no feeling, Meaning that you should be a good little gerbil and support the aristocrats. No old person in their right mind should support the GOP. They want to reward old people for loyally voting for Reagan onwards by gutting their pensions and social security. So really who now has no head? Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked * Name * Email * (Must be a valid email address) Comment characters remaining out of a maximum 1000 You may use these HTML tags and attributes: Notice: Comments which contain too many CAPITAL LETTERS will be automatically modified to standard sentence case. 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