Billy Packer Knows More Than CBS Pollsters: Women Don't Support Hillary Clinton

CBS Sports analyst Billy Packer will call his 100th Final Four game on Saturday, and you'd think all the preparation would keep him pretty busy. But he's not too busy to do something that I find downright creepy -- walk up to complete strangers, all female, and ask them if they'd vote for Hillary Clinton. That's exactly what Packer does, Michael Hiestand of USA Today reports:

He'll tell you that Hillary Clinton's support among women is overrated. He randomly approached 123 women recently - without introducing himself - to ask if they'd vote for her. "None of them knew who I was, or cared," he says. He was surprised only three women blew him off - "you'd think they'd say it was none of my business." (FYI: Only six said they'd vote for Clinton.)

Can you imagine that? You're a woman walking down the street and all of a sudden some old man comes up to you and demands to know whether you'll vote for Hillary Clinton? Do you think maybe you'd be a little taken aback, maybe even scared, and you'd just tell him what you think he wants to hear?


Packer's poll results give us six women out of 120 who answered who would vote for Clinton, or exactly 5%. Meanwhile, the most recent national presidential poll that's been taken, the CBS/New York Times poll that was just released, says that in a head-to-head match-up with John McCain, Clinton would win, 48% to 43%. I can't find a male-female breakdown in that poll, but if Packer's survey is correct, and only 5% of women would vote for Clinton, then she must have nearly 100% support among men to reach 48% of the population as a whole.

Or maybe the CBS/New York Times poll has flawed methodology. Maybe Packer should spend some time during the Final Four talking about how his sample of 123 women is far superior to the poll that his colleagues at CBS News have conducted, and that the flawed polling used by his colleagues at CBS News is the reason Clinton's support has become "overrated."

Or maybe Packer should just stick to talking about basketball. Yeah, I like that one.