“Despite everything,” the often interesting analyst Jamelle Bouie writes in Slate — “everything” includes “the email controversy, foreign donors and the Clinton Foundation” — “Hillary is in good shape.” Good enough to leave her party “still positioned for victory.”
Bouie is writing in response to the ABC News/Washington Post and CNN/ORC polls released last week, which show Hillary Clinton’s favorable/unfavorable numbers plunging. ABC/WaPo puts them at 45-49 percent negative, the lowest since April 2008. CNN/ORC puts them at an almost identical 46-50 percent negative, the lowest since March 2003.
The most significant thing about these results is that Clinton evokes favorable feelings from less than 50 percent of respondents. Bouie is right to say that it is unrealistic to expect Clinton to be as favorably regarded as she was when she held the relatively unpolitical office of secretary of state. But it’s a stretch to say that a candidate with 100 percent substantive recognition but less than 50 percent favorables is “positioned for victory.” Such a candidate could win, especially if her opponent has exploitable flaws. But there is a nontrivial possibility she will lose.
The internals — the responses to subsidiary questions — point in that direction, as well. ABC/WaPo says that only 33 percent of voters approve of her relationship with the Clinton Foundation, that only 31 percent approve of her private email system, that only 33 percent approve of her conduct on Benghazi, Libya, and that between 48 and 55 percent believe these are legitimate issues.
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So last election the republicans screw everything up to make sure they nominate an unelectable candidate and this election its the democrats turn.
ReplyDeleteBoth have "unelectable" choices.
ReplyDeleteOne will be, however, so we are skrewed.
Sure folks Donald Trump is going to sweep in and cream her. LOL
ReplyDeleteAnyone who would even consider voting for criminal Hillary is just plain stupid. You can't fix stupid.
ReplyDeleteShe's living proof that money can buy favors. In addition, the whole family are criminals and I'll never understand how educated folks could ever vote for such a scumbag with blood on her hands from Benghazi and a bank account in the millions from selling influence during her tenure as SOS. She lies and she is not patriotic! She is the best example, along with Obama, of what pure political corruption looks like!!! She's a political whore with no qualifications. At least we do know that Monica Lewinsky could do at least one thing!!!!!!!!!
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