MSNBC reported on a poll two days ago that showed Hillary’s negative attacks having an affect – on her.  The article said:

As expected, one of the two major Democratic candidates saw a downturn in the latest NBC/WSJ poll, but it’s not the candidate that you think. Hillary Clinton is sporting the lowest personal ratings of the campaign. Moreover, her 37 percent positive rating is the lowest the NBC/WSJ poll has recorded since March 2001, two months after she was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York.

Meanwhile the U.S. News & World Report is reporting that Obama now is favored by more people in California than Clinton despite Clinton winning the state on Super Tuesday.  The article goes on to say:

On Super Tuesday, Clinton won the Golden State’s primary by a margin of 52-to-43, surprising political experts with her dominance among Latinos, women, and older voters, in particular. Obama seemed to be unable to break through this electoral firewall. But in a new survey of more than 2,000 California voters, released today by the Public Policy Institute of California, an independent research group based in San Francisco, Obama appears to have experienced a significant bump since then. Over a month after voting in the primary, more Democrats here now say they have a positive view of Obama than of Clinton (78 percent to 74 percent)—a shift, experts say, that may be even larger than it appears, since much of Obama’s support in the primary came from independents. Decline-to-state voters, who represent a sizable voting block in California, continue to flock to his campaign (57 percent have a favorable view of Obama, compared with 47 percent for McCain and only 35 percent for Clinton). Overall, more than 6 in 10 voters of all political stripes say they view Obama favorably, compared with 45 percent for Clinton. If the general election were held today, the poll indicates that Obama, not Clinton, would do better here: He polls at 49-to-40 percent over McCain, while Clinton-McCain is a statistical tie (46 percent of voters say they would support Clinton; 43 percent for McCain).

So it looks like Clinton’s negative campaign is affecting her even in states she won.  Meanwhile, despite the Rev. Wright controversy, Obama is doing well in the polls.  The Los Angeles Times reports that a new Pew poll shows Obama weathering the storm.  The article says:

The controversy over various incendiary remarks by the Rev. Jeremiah Wright has for the most part “not hurt” Democrat Barack Obama’s campaign for president, one of the nation’s top pollsters says, based on his organization’s latest survey.

“Obama’s lead over Hillary Clinton remains as wide as it was in late February,” says Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, and “both Obama and Clinton continue to run slightly ahead of (John) McCain in a general election matchup.”

In the battle for the Democratic presidential nod, Obama was backed by 49% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters surveyed and Clinton by 39% (the error margin for this part of the poll was plus or minus 5.5 percentage points).

So it looks like Hillary Clinton has torn the party apart only to benefit the Republicans in the general election.  Thanks Hillary.

UPDATE: CNN is reporting that Clinton is receiving the lowest positive rating since 2001.  Bye-bye Hillary.

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