Politics on the Hudson

A key part of the strategy being used by Hillary Clinton’s rivals for the Democratic nomination has been to stress their opposition to the Iraq war  — former Sen. John Edwards, form instance, was among the first to call his vote authorizing force in Iraq a mistake and Barack Obama has repeatedly pointed out that he opposed the war from the star.

But a new “poll”:http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-clinton13sep13,1,2644765.story?coll=la-headlines-frontpage in the Los Angeles Times shows that the tactic isn’t working so well.  Clinton, who has yet to repudiate her Senate vote authorizing the war and remains one of the more hawkish Democrats on Iraq, seems to be favored among anti-war Democrats in several of the key primary states.

In New Hampshire, for example, Clinton won the support of 36% of Democratic primary voters who said they wanted U.S. troops withdrawn “as soon as possible.”  Only 14 percent ov those voters backed Obama and 12 percent favored Edwards.