Even in light of the controversy over the personal email account that she used while she was Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton is still the top pick in the Democratic primary and would easily defeat possible Republican challengers by wide margins in the 2016 White House run, according to a Quinnipiac University poll in Connecticut.

The survey, which was released last Thursday, gives an early look at Clinton's popularity among Connecticut voters.

"Secretary Clinton tops the Democratic pack with 53 percent, followed by U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts with 15 percent and Vice President Joseph Biden with 8 percent," writes Quinnipiac in a statement.

Meanwhile, the poll finds out that the former first lady beats out prospective 2016 Republican contenders by 18 to 25 percentage points.

"Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker have 18 percent each in a possible Republican primary matchup, with 12 percent for U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and 11 percent for New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie," reads the statement.

"Despite the current email controversy surrounding Clinton, she is well-liked in Connecticut while the Republican contenders get either mixed evaluations or negative ones from voters," said Quinnipiac Poll Director Douglas Schwartz.

Last week, Clinton addressed the email controversy for the first time during a press conference at the United Nations.

At the conference, Clinton said she used a private account out of "convenience" and admitted that it was a bad decision for her to conduct State Department-related business on a separate email account.

"When I got to work as secretary of state, I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department," she said, according to Business Insider. However, "looking back, it would have been better to use separate phones and two separate e-mail accounts. I thought one (mobile) device would be simpler. Obviously, it hasn't worked out that way," she added, reports USA Today.

The controversy began earlier this month after the New York Times published an article revealing that Clinton used personal emails while she worked in the Obama Administration. As a result, this may have been a violation against federal guidelines and could have made important information vulnerable to hack attacks, reported the NYT.