democrats' support is  softening for hillary clinton, their party's presumed 2016  presidential front runner, with nearly half now in favor of an independent  review of the private email account she used exclusively when she was america's top diplomat and most americans now say they don't want to see political retreads running for president support for clinton's candidacy has dropped about 15  percentage points since mid february in her own party, with as  few as 45 percent saying they would support her in the last  week, according to a reuters/ipsos tracking poll democrats likely to vote in the party primaries, however, backed off their support for her in slightly smaller numbers reuters also found that 46 percent of democrats believe there should be an independent probe of all of clinton's emails to ensure she turned over  everything work related when she left the obama administration not so fast: new polls show hillary clinton's star is fading and both democrats and republicans don't want past presidential candidates to have another bite at the apple  fresh faces: democratic senator elizabeth warren of massachusetts (left) and former maryland gov martin o'malley (right) are both politically to hillary's left but have never run for the white house before  there was sizable support among democrats – 41 per cent – for a congressional effort, backed by republcians, to force clinton to testify about the emails 'bottom line is if she didn't do anything wrong, she's  fine,' north carolina resident renetia lowery, 48, told reuters lowery is a  democrat who participated in the poll separately, a new rasmussen reports poll released thursday found that 54 per cent of likely us voters from both major parties want to see fresh faces running in the 2016 presidential contet among democrats, just 22 per cent would be satisfied with a candidate who has run before fifty seven per cent disagreed that could spell trouble for clinton, a 2008 also ran who took the silver medal when barack obama won the democratic nomination on his way to the white house it also bodes ill for other former big political names whose names have been floated as hillary's star wanes, including former vice president al gore, current vice president joe biden and secretary of state john kerry kerry and gore were the unsuccessful democratic nominees in 2004 and 2000, losing to george w bush in the general elections not again? hillary clinton came in second among democratic candidates in 2008, losing the nomination to then senator barack obama  the scandal that washington wags have christened 'email gate' could ultimately be clinton's undoing even democrats who said they were not personally swayed one  way or another by the data security flap told reuters pollsters that it could lower clinton's prospects next year the reuters online poll sampled opinions of 2,128 adults from march 10 to march 17 clinton has tried to tamp down accusations that she used her  personal email account to keep her records from public review,  which would support an old political narrative that clinton and  her husband, former president bill clinton, are secretive and  seek to play by a different set of rules democratic strategist ben labolt, a former spokesman for  president barack obama's 2012 campaign, said the email  controversy would help democrats in the long run by urging clinton to get serious about running it's become a 'galvanizing call for the clinton  campaign in waiting to build an organization,' by hiring top  political communicators who can defend her record, labolt told reuters clinton is expected  to announce as early as april that she plans to seek the white  house in the november 2016 election she is expected also to announce a communicatiosn team that includes former congressional and justice department spokesman brian  fallon, white house aide jennifer palmieri and jesse ferguson,  who has handled press for democratic congressional campaigns palmieri already has one foot out of the white house her replacement, state department spokeswoman jen psaki, will move to 1600 pennsylvania avenue next month retreads: al gore (right) ran in 2000 and lost to geroge w bush after eight years as vice president, and secretary of state john kerry (left, with running mate john edwards)followed suit in 2004  clinton told a packed room of reporters this month that she  used her personal email for official business for the sake of  convenience, because it was easier to carry only one device clinton's office said she has since turned over paper copies  of more than 30,000 work emails last year at the state  department's request, but did not hand over about 32,000 that  were private or personal records among the emails turned over were 300 related to a 2012  attack on a us consulate in benghazi that led to the death of  a us ambassador and three other americans, which were  subsequently handed over to a republican led congressional  committee investigating the incident the panel has subpoenaed clinton's remaining emails and said  they would like her to testify on the matter before april about half of democrats said they thought clinton was  composed during the march 10 news conference, but 14 percent  found her evasive and 17 percent said she avoided answering  questions directly survey respondent tom trevathan, 74, a retired math  professor from arkansas, said he was 'less than happy' with  clinton's performance at the news conference 'it reminds me of a history she has had not responding  thoroughly to inquiries,' trevathan said 'if she would be more  open about the situation, and show more leadership in saying  what she did and why, i think it would be better'
dems clinton reuters 46 per cent democrats the state department 54 per cent
dems' support for clinton's 2016 candidacy has dropped 15 percentage points since mid february, a reuters poll found . 46 per cent of democrats want to see an independent expert sort through her secret email server to determine if she held back official documents from the state department . more than half of likely voters from both major parties – 54 per cent – want to see a 'fresh face' instead of a political retread run for president 