Hillary Clinton could beat every Republican candidate… and by a wider margin than Obama

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SHE has already stated her intention to bow out of the race for 2012 but according to a survey if Hillary Clinton were the Democrat presidential candidate she would beat Republicans hands down.

Texas Governor and GOP candidate Rick Perry has admitted his biggest mistake so far in the run for the White House was to take part in the Republican discussions at all.

And now a poll by Time magazine revealed that the current Secretary of State leads Perry, 58 per cent to 32 per cent; Mitt Romney, 55 per cent to 38; and Herman Cain, 56 per cent to 34, among voters.

The statistics also discovered that Clinton’s margins were better than President Obama’s – who edges Romney by just 46 per cent to 43 per cent, Perry by 50 per cent to 38 and Cain by 49 per cent to 37.

Clinton was beaten in the 2008 nomination race by Obama and has said she has no interest in running for the White House again.

In an interview last week, she said: ‘I think it’s time for others to step up.’

Another poll revealed that among GOP candidates, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney leads his campaign rivals in the four states that kick off the 2012 race.

Governor Perry said the debates are set up to ‘tear down the candidates’ and he found it hard to explain his ideas with one-minute responses.

‘So, you know, if there was a mistake made, it was probably ever doing one of the (debates),’ he told Fox News.

‘All they’re interested in is stirring up between the candidates instead of really talking about the issues that are important to the American people.’

He also admitted he should not have said critics of his push to allow children of illegal immigrants to attend Texas colleges at in-state tuition prices did not ‘have a heart’, reported Yahoo News.

But Governor Perry used the Fox News interview to criticise Romney for changing his opinions on guns, abortion and traditional marriage.

‘Those aren’t minor issues,’ he told Fox News. So to change those at the age of 50 or 60 tells you all you need to know about that.’

He is flailing in the polls, while Romney has narrow advantages in Iowa and South Carolina and double-digit leads in New Hampshire and Florida.

Much of Governor Perry’s fall in the polls has been attributed to his poor performances in the debates which saw him outfought by his rivals.

Businessman Herman Cain, who surged into the lead in some national polls but is now facing heavier scrutiny, is in second place in each state.

A sweep by Romney of the first four states would put an early end to the battle to find a challenger to President Barack Obama in 2012.