Amid a campaign to put a woman’s face on the $20 bill, a new poll finds that most prefer former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt and even Pocahontas over Hillary Clinton.
A new Rasmussen Reports survey said that 30 percent prefer Roosevelt, seen as the model Clinton followed as first lady. Clinton received just 4 percent support.
Rasmussen found good support for the campaign pushed by the group Women On 20s. By a margin of 45 percent to 34 percent, the public supports replacing Andrew Jackson on the face of the bill.
Rasmussen offered some choices in this question:
• 8 percent Anthony.
• 2 percent Madison.
The campaign focuses on the $20 bill as a maker on the 2020 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote. “So it seems fitting to commemorate that milestone by voting to elevate women to a place that is today reserved exclusively for the men who shaped American history. That place is on our paper money. And that new portrait can become a symbol of greater changes to come,” said the group on its website.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected].
