Hillary Clinton’s Popularity Slips, But She Still Tops the Field

After more than a year of high-profile political volatility, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has seen her popularity with American voters dip only slightly. A new Gallup poll of 1,522 adults conducted March 2-4 found that 50 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Clinton – the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic presidential nomination next year -- compared with a 55 percent favorability rating last July. Moreover, her positive-to-negative rating of +12 percen