Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK — Arkansans are still high on Bill Clinton and his presidency eight years after the former Arkansas governor left the White House at the end of a tumultuous two terms, poll results released today showed.
The poll commissioned by Talk Business Quarterly magazine showed 50 percent of Arkansans think Clinton will be remembered as an above average or outstanding president, while 25 percent think he’d be remembered as an average commander in chief.
Twenty-three percent said he’d be remembered as a below average or poor president and 2 percent said they did not know.
Asked whether the Clinton library has had a positive or negative impact on the state since it opened five years ago, 68 percent said positive, 7 percent said negative and 25 percent said they did not think the presidential library had had any affect at all on the state.
Wilson Research Associates of Washington, D.C., conducted telephone interviews with 600 likely Arkansas voters Oct. 12-15. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percent.
Democratic poll strategist Robert McLarty of The Markham Group and Republican political strategist Clinton Reed of The Political Firm composed the questions.
