New Yorkers Won't Support Hillary for President

The latest polls cannot bring much comfort to Hillary Clinton or those who plan to fund her presidential run in '08:

Six in 10 New York voters believe Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is planning to run for president in 2008, but only about a third of her home-state voters say they would back her if she did so, a statewide poll reported Thursday.

Almost half of New York voters, including three of every 10 Democrats, said they would not vote for her for president, according to the poll from Siena College's Research Institute.

The Siena findings mirror those reported by Marist College's Institute for Public Opinion in a January poll that found 59 percent of New York voters said they expect Clinton to run for president, but 62 percent said it was unlikely she could win.

The good news for Hillary is she'll still have a job in '07 as New Yorkers don't have too many problems with the idea of sending her back to the Senate (anything to keep her out of New York, I suppose).