Half of voting-age Americans say they would not vote for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) if she became the Democratic nominee for president in 2008, according to a Harris Interactive poll released Tuesday.
More than one in five Democrats that participated in the survey said they would not vote for Clinton. Overall, 36 percent say they would vote for the former first lady and 11 percent are unsure of their top choice.
-- from The Hill, today.
Can things be this bad?
I'm not sure that I'm interpreting the article correctly -- the full text is here -- but I understand the article to mean that if Senator Clinton was the Democratic Nominee, then 20% of Democrats say they wouldn't vote for her. The number of Americans that say they would vote for her is only 36%.
Could this be wrong? What's the methodology of this poll?
At what point should the Senator's supporters decide to vote strategically -- to pick a candidate that they didn't like as much, but would have a much greater chance of prevailing in the General Election? Are there any polls to indicate that the other candidates: Obama, Edwards, Richardson -- would do tremendously better in a general election?
What I want to find out is this: how many of you, fellow Kossacks, have ever voted strategically before? Tell us your stories ... and what led you to do so.