Poll: O’Malley Presidential Numbers Up But He’s Still in Last

Despite a slight uptick in the polls, Gov. Martin O’Malley finished last among potential Democratic presidential hopefuls in a new poll in New Hampshire. 

O’Malley, who is in the last 18 months of his second and final term as Maryland governor, is said to be looking at a presidential run in 2016.

But a poll released Sunday by the New Hampshire Journal shows O’Malley bringing up the rear in a Democratic field that included Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joseph Biden and New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

O’Malley finished last with .6 percent of the vote, according to a poll conducted exclusively for the New Hampshire Journal by New England College.

More than 65 percent of those polled said they would vote for Clinton.

Meanwhile, Maryland's governor is the subject of criticism by some Democrats who say he would be a poor presidential candidate.

Earlier this month, Alec MacGillis published a column in The New Republic entitled: “He’s Handsome, He’s Progressive and He’s a Rocker…And Man, Would Martin O’Malley Make a Lousy President.”

MacGillis said during a July 2 interview on Midday with Dan Rodricks that some media organizations are “overstating his prospects.”

Presidential polls have not been kind to O’Malley in recent months.

• In May, O’Malley finished last with zero percent in another New England College poll.

• Also in May, a national poll conducted by Quinnipiac University found 1 percent of those surveyed would support O’Malley compared to 65 percent for Clinton. O’Malley’s support increases to 3 percent if Clinton were dropped from the race.

• A Washington Post poll conducted in March found that Clinton was more popular than O’Malley in Maryland.