While no one has thrown their hat into the 2016 presidential race, presumptive Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton appears to have the highest favorable rating against all potential GOP candidates despite controversy regarding her U.S. State Department emails.

Polling data from 1,009 adult Americans showed Clinton with a 53 percent favorable rating. The former secretary of state's rating is the highest, by double digits, against seven potential Republican Party presidential candidates. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee received the highest favorable rating among Republicans with 35 percent, but his unfavorable rating was not far behind, with 30 percent.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., tied at second place among Republican candidates with 31 percent, each. Bush, however, received the highest unfavorable rating with 47 percent, while Clinton received 44 percent and 30 percent for Paul.

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., and current New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie were next and tied at 25 percent. Christie's unfavorable rating was higher at 44 percent while Rubio accounted for 26 percent.

Neurologist Ben Carson, another potential GOP presidential candidate, received a favorable rating of 22 percent while 14 percent had an unfavorable view. Carson, however, received the highest "never heard of" rating in the poll with 56 percent.

Current Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker received the favorable and unfavorable rating tied at 21 percent, and his garnered the second-highest "never heard of" rating with 48 percent.

Vice President Joe Biden was also an option and showed better numbers compared to the GOP field. Biden was 10 percentage points shy from matching Clinton's favorable rating, as he received 43 percent. Biden's unfavorable rating was narrowly higher than Clinton by 2 percentage points -- 46 percent to 44 percent, respectively. One percent of the survey's respondents "never heard of" Clinton, which was less than the six percent who have never heard of Biden.

While Clinton's favorable rating was the highest among all options, it is down from a November poll when she received 59 percent. Her unfavorable rating did increase from 38 percent in November 2014 to 44 percent on the March polling data.

Clinton was still the preferred choice for the Democratic Party's presidential candidate. She comfortably won the questionnaire among Democratic and Independent voters with 62 percent, ahead of Biden's 15 percent and Sen. Elizabeth Warren's, D-Mass., 10 percent.

Although Huckabee received a higher favorable rating against fellow Republican Party members, Bush was the preferred choice for the Republican candidacy among Republican and Independent voters. Bush received 16 percent, slightly ahead of Walker's 13 percent and Paul's 12 percent. Huckabee placed fourth with 10 percent as Carson rounded up the top five with 9 percent. Latino senators Rubio and Ted Cruz, R-Texas, ranked seventh and eighth place, respectively.

The polling data was conducted by ORC International for CNN between March 13 and March 15.

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