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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCBS Poll: 26% of Americans now have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton
March 26, 2015
Most Americans (65 percent) say their opinion of Clinton has not changed in the wake of the email controversy, but 29 percent say their opinion of her has grown worse. Forty-nine percent of Republicans say their opinion of her is worse, as do 28 percent of independents.
More generally, 26 percent of Americans now have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton, while 37 percent view her unfavorably; another third are undecided or don't have an opinion of her. As Clinton weighs a presidential bid, her favorable views are 12 points lower than they were in the fall of 2013, just months after leaving her position as secretary of state. Her unfavorable views have ticked up slightly, but the percentage that is undecided about her has risen eight points.
Clinton's highest favorable rating in CBS News polling occurred in March 2009, early in her tenure as Secretary of State, when 58 percent of Americans viewed her favorably. Clinton received her lowest favorable rating - 24 percent - in June 2003, soon after the publication of her memoir Living History....
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/views-on-hillary-clinton-and-the-email-controversy/
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)aspirant
(3,533 posts)All in favor = 26%
All opposed = 74%
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)aspirant
(3,533 posts)If you don't like 74% of your neighbors who cares what they do?
Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)With one exception, no party has held the presidency for 12 years since the war. Whoever the Democrats nominate is going to have to a severely uphill struggle to overcome the millstone of incumbency.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Liberal_Stalwart71
(20,450 posts)The Democratic Party is making a HUGE mistake and will put a fucking Bush right back into office--all because the Clintons and their worshippers are so entitled.
RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)Warren's not running and could not win anyway. Forget Bernie. He's a confirmed "socialist" so is DOA.
Who else? Hillary is PROGRESSIVE (though not TeaLeft Purist), qualified, and ready on day one.
cali
(114,904 posts)she was just not up to it in 2008 despite her ENORMOUS advantages. I see no reason to think that has changed.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)brooklynite
(95,685 posts)...was he a BETTER campaigner? Sure. But you're hard-pressed to point to any evidence she's a bad one.
cali
(114,904 posts)managed to lose.
Hard pressed? Hardly.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)Concentrated on Iowa and got recognition...had he lost Iowa, he would might have been a one-term senator.
cali
(114,904 posts)bread and cheese, what would there be to drink?
So why did Hill blow it so badly in Iowa? How?
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)KMOD
(7,906 posts)But yes, she is not winning over any independents on that, and republicans obviously hate her.
Maedhros
(10,007 posts)I just believe she's helping to lead us off a cliff.
MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Sad.
Silent3
(15,641 posts)Last edited Fri Mar 27, 2015, 12:39 AM - Edit history (1)
...during elections over the years, it's hard to imagine this whole email server thing turning out to be much more than a footnote in this campaign when all is said and done, no matter how much temporary effect it might have now while there's so little else going on for the media to latch onto.
Hillary, or any other Democrat, will start to look better and better as the next Republican clown car begins to form, especially when it's off to such a promising start with Ted Cruz.
morningfog
(18,115 posts)There will be far worse, actual scandals, attached to each of the republicans who announce as well as to Hillary.
What remains to be seen is which scandals are the worst and which ones break at the best (or worst) time.
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Just not towards the idea of her as president. it's like that friend you like a lot, that you would never allow to drive your car.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)This too shall pass.
demwing
(16,916 posts)1. who are the fake progressives and who are the real ?
2. There must be a strong list of declared candidates. Care to share yours?
alcibiades_mystery
(36,437 posts)I'm not interested in spending a whole bunch of time tearing any one of the possibles down.
So called progressives, in my definition, are those who manage to create worse conditions for people in their fanatical desire to create a world after their own image. I support progressive causes, but I don't support them in principle to the point where their opposite gets instantiated as policy and in practice. Example: Al Gore may have held a wide range of policy beliefs that I disagreed with from the Left. That said, I wouldn't attack him endlessly until, say, Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were in charge of US foreign policy. To do so would make me a so-called progressive, since I am progressive in principle, but counter-progressive in practice.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)more than we eat the Repukes. That needs to change...seems like the gloves go back on once the primary ends.
Wella
(1,827 posts)We'll see what happens. I don't count her out yet.
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)Response to RiverLover (Original post)
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woo me with science
(32,139 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)RiverLover
(7,830 posts)What the heck are they thinking?
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Last edited Sat Mar 28, 2015, 01:06 AM - Edit history (2)
Look I know the woman isn't a saint but she isn't the spawn of satan either. I don't know how any woman has managed to stay in the public eye as long as Hillary Clinton despite as much media shit thrown her way. Some of it has been deserved but much of it like Benghazi and this Email 'Scandal' has been so blown out of proportion.
Lesser men would have received half the shit Hillary has received and still have crumpled under the pressure.
Prism
(5,815 posts)I'm curious if anyone knows why this disparity.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)Money!
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)All other polls have her favorability over 50%.
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)It looks like she would be unable to win an election for high school class president.
pansypoo53219
(21,108 posts)RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)It's totally ridiculous that very few people are willing to challenge her for the nomination. Where's the next generation of leaders, for pete's fucking sake? Sickening.