Clinton on course to win presidential election, says poll

A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll taken in the days after Clinton held her first public rally earlier this <g data-gr-id="32">month,</g> showed the former secretary of state garnering broad support for being chosen the Democratic presidential nominee.

Three-quarters of Democratic primary voters said Clinton was their top pick to be the nominee, compared with the 15 per cent who selected Bernie Sanders.

Clinton, 67, enters the 2016 contest with unusually broad support from fellow Democrats with some 

92 <g data-gr-id="33">per cent</g> of Democratic primary voters saying they could see themselves supporting her and just 8 <g data-gr-id="34">per cent</g> saying they could not, according to the poll.

But it is not that Clinton just emerges as the strongest contender in the primary vote but the poll 

shows that she is looking set for a successful November 2016 election bid to become the first woman president of America.

The poll asked 1,000 likely voters about their opinions on potential presidential candidates, both Republican and Democrat.

It showed Clinton polling at 48 per cent to 40 per cent against her closest Republican contender, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, the brother of former president George W Bush and son of former president George HW Bush.

Against the Florida senator Marco Rubio, Clinton polled 50 per cent against 40 per cent. And against Wisconsin governor Scott Walker she polled 51 per cent to 37 per cent.

The survey found that Americans are divided on whether they want the next president to be a Republican or a Democrat.