How Long Would It Take to Fall Through the Earth? reads a recent headline atLiveScience.com. TheHilltakes a stab at answering the question: Hillary Clintons favorability ratings have plunged in two battleground states that will be critical to determining the 2016 presidential election, a new poll finds. In addition, about half the voters in Ohio, Florida and Pennsylvania say they dont trust the former secretary of State.The survey, fromQuinnipiac University, came out yesterday. Here are its key findings, as summarized by the Hill:

50 percent of voters in Florida say Clinton is not honest or trustworthy, compared to 41 percent who say she is. Clintons favorability rating in the Sunshine State has shrunk from 53 percent positive and 39 percent negative last month, to 49 percent positive and 46 percent negative this month.In Pennsylvania, 49 percent of voters say they dont trust Clinton, against 44 percent who say that they do. Clintons favorability rating in the Keystone State plummeted from a 55 percent-38 percent split in February, to 48 percent positive and 47 percent negative in March.Clintons image has held up the best in Ohio, where a slim plurality, 47 percent, say they find Clinton to be honest and trustworthy, against 46 percent who say they dont. Her favorability rating remains nearly unchanged here, at 51 percent positive and 43 percent negative.Mrs. Clinton defeated Barack Obama in all three states primaries in 2008, and Obama carried the states in 2008 and 2012. The poll also posed a series of general-election matchups in each state and found Mrs. Clinton trailing Jeb Bush in Florida, 45% to 42%, and Rand Paul in Pennsylvania, 45% to 44%. Paul was also the strongest contender in Ohio, but Mrs. Clinton led him there, 46% to 41%.The good news for Hillary Clinton is that the email controversy has not done huge violence to her presidential chances, the polls assistant director, Peter Brown, says. But the matter is taking a toll on the former secretary of states public image.Brown has a low threshold for good news. Its not clear what huge violence would even mean at this point, but we suppose Brown has in mind precedents like the Monkey Business and plagiarism, which in 1987 prompted Gary Hart and Joe Biden respectively to withdraw from the following years nomination contest. (Hart technically suspended his campaign, re-entered in December, and flopped.) Nothing like that has happened to Mrs. Clintonat least not yet.And it may not. After all, its not as if the Democrats have an abundance of alternatives. Republicans and liberal Democrats have found something to agree on, reports theAssociated Press: Both want to keep alive the prospect that Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren will run for president. People on each side are driven by self-interest as they cling to a dream that is all but certain to remain in the realm of fantasy.