When Barack Obama was re-elected as President of the United States in January, chants of "4 more years" were heard by his staunchest supporters.
These days, the woman he defeated in the Democratic Primaries in 2008, who went on to become the secretary of state, is feeling a little more prideful. That is because in the latest survey put out by Quinnipiac University says that out of 1,7772 registered voters, 61 percent of registered voters have a favorable rating of Hillary Clinton, ahead of President Obama, as well as Vice President Joe Biden, and a handful of other top Republican politicians.
Obama, according to the survey, has a favorability rating of 51 percent, and a 46 percent unfavorable rating. The president's job approval rating is split, at 46 percent to 45 percent, down from 53 percent approval in December, as reported by Yahoo News.
Vice President Joe Biden has a 46 percent favorability rating, while Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who will the Republicans' response to Obama's State of the Union next week, is viewed favorably by 27 percent of voters (57 percent still have said they do not know enough about him.)
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, had the highest unfavorability rating in the batch, at 42 percent. Twenty percent of registered voters viewed him favorably.
In response to an open-ended question for which respondents could provide their own answer, those surveyed said the main reason they approve of Clinton is due to her "job performance, experience and competence." Clinton made her departure official in a letter to President Barack Obama last Friday, and was succeeded by the new U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry who has since already been confirmed.
