Poll: Democrats and independents don’t want a Hillary coronation

“She’s not a naive person,” said poll respondent Leake Little, 54, a Democrat who works as a services consultant from San Francisco. “She knows the law and has been in government and knows records retention issues.”

Little said the e-mail controversy is the top issue concerning him about Clinton’s candidacy, in part because it’s the most recent. ”It raises a huge character issue for me. It goes to whether I can literally trust her,” said Little, a services consultant from San Francisco. “Her actions just don’t add up.”

The e-mail controversy may be one of the factors depressing Clinton’s overall standing. Just 48 percent view her favorably, down four points since December and marking the first time her standing has fallen below 50 percent in Bloomberg polls dating to September 2009. Her high was 70 percent in December, 2012.