Poll: Hillary Clinton would beat Scott Walker and Paul Ryan for prez on their home turf

It's been less than four months since the 2012 presidential election, which of course means it's long past time for politicos to start obsessing about the 2016 election.

In that vein, the Democratic-leaning film Public Policy Polling firm, which polled Wisconsinites last week on Russ Feingold's favorability ratings, also asked some questions in that poll about hypothetical matchups for the presidential race. And the results might surprise some Wisconsin Republicans expecting some rising GOP stars to get a home-state bounce.

The poll says that Hillary Clinton would handily beat both Gov. Scott Walker and U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan in Wisconsin in a general election. Clinton would beat Ryan by a 51-43 margin and thump Walker by a 54-41 margin, according to the poll. She claims double-digit leads against both Republicans with voters identifying themselves as independents.

Not surprisingly given those numbers, Clinton is the candidate that half of polled Wisconsin Democrats most want to run, with Feingold the first choice of 25 percent of Democrats.

In a Republican primary, the poll suggests both Ryan and Walker would win handily, although U.S. Sen Marco Rubio of Florida makes a strong second-place showing in both matchups, losing to Ryan 35-22 and Walker 33-27. (New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie pulls in 10 percent in both hypothetical primaries, and no other candidate gets out of single digits.)

The poll surveyed 1,799 Wisconsin voters, including 679 typical Republican primary voters, between Feb. 21 and 24. The margin of error for questions of all respondents was 2.3 percent, while the margin of error for Republican primary voters was 3.8 percent.

Also, the election is almost four years away.