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Christie Beats Biden in Quinnipiac Poll

AP
March 7, 2013

Look at question seven, which has Chris Christie defeating Joe Biden in a hypothetical 2016 matchup, 43 percent to 40 percent.

Sure, it's within the margin of error. And sure, the poll also shows Hillary Clinton handily defeating Marco Rubio and Paul Ryan. And sure, 2016 polls are meaningless at this point in the cycle. They are a function of name identification, who knows what will happen over the next four years, demography favors the Democrats, blah blah blah.

But isn't it at least worth pointing out, in the midst of the Hillary-is-a-lock bandwagon, that despite nearly universal name identification and high favorable ratings Hillary draws only 50 percent against Ryan and Rubio? And only 45 percent against Christie? Shouldn't the queen of America, who has ceased her near constant international travel to plan for a presidential run at the dawn of this progressive era, be drawing more support so early on, when she has not taken any controversial stands on touchstone issues that might divide the public?