Clinton’s dismal approval ratings prompt Dem fears

[TeddyR]

Clinton is now viewed unfavorably by 55 percent of the electorate, according to the HuffPost Pollster average, which tracks findings from 42 different polling outfits. Only 40.2 percent of people view her favorably, according to that average.

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“The No. 1 reason that her favorability is so bad is that you have large numbers of Americans who say they don’t trust her,” he said. “I could make it sound more complicated than that, but that’s really what it is. Voters see her as the ultimate politician, who will do or say anything to get elected.”

The historic comparisons are stark. At this point in the 2008 presidential cycle, then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was seen favorably by 62 percent of voters and unfavorably by just 33 percent. Even in February 2012, the closest comparable point in his re-election campaign, he had a net positive favorability rating in the Gallup poll of 2 percentage points, compared to Clinton’s current net rating of minus 11.

The story goes on to note that the only saving grace for Clinton is that the Republicans chose this year to have a meltdown and it looks like they'll nominate either Cruz or Trump, two truly awful candidates. Hills would have lost to a Republican who was more palatable to the general population.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/276078-clintons-dismal-approval-ratings-prompt-dem-fears

[NurseJackie]

1. Ha!! :-D

[bobbobbins01]

2. Where's your fiddle?

Maybe you can hitch a ride to Rome with Bernie this week.

[Logical]

5. Wow, is that hillary?

[Armstead]

6. It's really humorous that a candidate who starts with high disapproval is the candidate

Hell, even if one supports and loves Clinton ought to be a little worried about it, rather than just posting snarky Betty White gifs.

I love Berry White, and have posted my share of snarky images.

But that alone aint going to win over independents and disaffected Democrats.

[virtualobserver]

26. The funniest part is that they imagine that the negative ad barrage from Republicans.....

won't make her numbers drop even more.

[revbones]

31. Yep. Typical Hillary follower response to anything negative about Hillary.

She can do no wrong right? Those unfavorables don't mean anything right?

[Skwmom]

3. Her disapproval rating will skyrocket once the fact ads start and all of those young voters are

going to view the Democratic Party as a corrupt corporate cesspool.

[JoePhilly]

11. Keep your fingers crossed!!

[oasis]

33. House Speaker Ryan bows out. Hill cakewalks over Trump. (eom)

[pinebox]

4. Oh look! A check in reality!

You'll get laughed at and get this shrugged off by Hillary's supporters but this is reality. People don't trust Hillary and that is something which will never change and they haven't for years.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Ya mean those high numbers aren't good?

Well, I'll be darned.

The last paragraph says it all - the right has a HORRIBLE field this time around, at least until their convention.

[gordianot]

8. By the time the Republican Convention is over Dick Cheney favorability rating will be envied.

...and Dick may be forced to vote for Hillary as the best neo-con in the room. More than half and less than 75 percent see you unfavorably may be a stellar performance.

[BainsBane]

9. Still higher than Trump or Cruz's

Carville called this right. The GOP has spent close to a billion dollars trashing Hillary since the 1990s when she tried to implement universal healthcare. "Progressives" have repeated those same claims verbatim. Yet despite huge amounts of resources devoted to attacking Clinton, despite Karl Rove's huge financial investment through CrossRoads GPS in trying to make Bernie the nominee, he still trails by 2.4 million votes. So you can celebrate Clinton's unfavorability ratings all you want. The fact is voters--Democrats--still prefer her to Bernie. Even though Bernie himself has vastly outspent Clinton in this campaign, he still can't win a majority of the votes, so now he's leaving the country right before a primary that he MUST win to have a shot at the nomination. But he won't win, and he knows it, so off to Rome he goes, and his campaign plots to seize the nomination against the electoral will of the people. Of course it won't happen. She'll have the required delegates before the convention, but the campaign wants the tap to keep flowing, and so it does.

There are going to be some fascinating books about the workings of that campaign when it's over.

[Kentonio]

27. Bernie has not 'vastly outspent' Hillary, Hillary has spent more than Bernie.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/election-2016-campaign-money-race.html

[inchhigh]

32. Hillary never tried to implement universal healthcare.

I spent most of the middle part of the 80's working with ACORN and C/LEC to get healthcare on the Dem agenda. Nobody from that time period thought Hillary was an ally. She took a groundswell of support for a popular idea and destroyed it behind closed doors with a bunch of industry lawyers. Her negligence took healthcare off the agenda for 20 years and cost millions of lives. The right wing didnt "spend" a penny bashing her. They reaped Billions.

[Triana]

10. #1 thing I hear about Clinton:

"I don't trust her"

It's true at least based on what I hear from Dem voters I know.

[pdsimdars]

19. Actaul data

Seen as the least honest of all candidates.

[Triana]

22. I'm sadly not surprised. n/t

[EndElectoral]

36. wow...lower than Trump. Sanders the most honest in the survey.

[DookDook]

12. But what happens if the Republicans don't nominate Cruz or Trump?

There are ethereal rumors that a brokered republican convention could lead to them putting up Paul Ryan as their nominee. And with the burning hate that the right has for Secretary Clinton they won't have a problem coming out in droves to vote for Ryan.

[djean111]

13. My feeling is, and I don't know if this is "racist" or not - that if the GOP nominates almost ANY

pasty white guy, they will beat Hillary. I has always looked to me like most GOP voters do not actually care about issues past guns, Murrica!, and fucking over poor people, even if that includes themselves. And they most decidedly do not like Hillary.

[nadinbrzezinski]

41. She is in my watch list

Governor of New Mexico Susana Martinez... in fact, I am willing to bet she is very likely at either the POTUS or VEEP level list of possibles... minorities are starting to take more than just one look at the GOP...

I know, I know, people here do not pay attention to this shit... but it is my job.

Go watch some of the photos I posted from the Cruz rally in San Diego... It is not even the mix we had oh four years ago at the Ron Paul rally. And this is not something that people here are paying any attention to.

https://reportingsandiego.com/2016/04/12/2000-san-diegans-attend-cruz-rally/

[Hydra]

14. This is a very real problem coming up

We laugh at the clown car now, but they are working hard to crash Trump right now and have to be thinking of a more solid candidate for convention. If so, things could get very ugly for Team Hill- the best they can say right now is that the bar is low enough for their candidate to trip over.

[TeddyR]

15. Pundits seem to think that there is a legitimate chance

That Cruz will be the nominee because Trump isn't going to get enough votes to win outright and will lose at a contested election. While that might tear the Republican party apart, I shudder to think that we'll end up with Cruz as president because Hillary's numbers are so bad. Not only will the dislike for Hillary drive down Dem turnout, a lot of independents might end up going for Cruz that wouldn't have gone for Trump.

[Hydra]

17. Frankly, all of them scare me

And I hope for all of our sakes that the party splits...but the Repubs could pull a nasty rabbit out of their hats if they get their act together. If our party goes to convention as well, it's likely(definite?) our party splits.

Interesting times.

[EndElectoral]

37. Well, if it's Kasich (who I despise), his dishonesty factor is less than half of Hillary's figure.

That's not good for the GE if it's him and her.

[nadinbrzezinski]

38. They are not ethereal

They are real

[Jitter65]

16. Yes, her's is similar to where Obama's numbers were 18 months ago. nt

[pdsimdars]

18. I wonder if there is any historical data on favorability ratings and winning the presidential race.

Has anyone with a high unfavorability rating ever won the election? Or does it have no effect?

[Kentonio]

29. Someone posted a graph a few months back.

If I remember correctly there was exactly 1 candidate in the last 50 years or so that won with a negative favorability.

[pdsimdars]

39. Just as I suspected. And yet, many still seem to want her as their nominee. . . idiocracy.

[Kentonio]

40. Here's one going back to 84.

?1446145459

[PufPuf23]

20. It is an insult to good Democrats that the Party leadership and DNC failed

to find and endorse a candidate with a strong majority of respect - net favorability rating - within our own party.

For me, the negative view of Hillary Clinton came post-2001.

Hillary Clinton will maintain the status quo and be less transformative and less effective by far than POTUS Obama.

There will be a sizable group within the Democratic Party looking forward to a primary challenge in 2020 in the probable case Hillary Clinton becomes POTUS.

The Democratic Party may lose the 2016 POTUS election with Hillary Clinton despite the GOP only presenting nightmares.

The Democratic leadership failed because they have not identified and supported a POTUS candidate that is respected and favored by a clear majority of the Party.

[Punkingal]

21. The stacked the deck for Hillary from the get-go.

Even when Biden might have run...it's disgusting and stupid that they did that.

[PufPuf23]

24. Hillary Clinton blocked the emergence of a number of better Democratic candidates.

Agree about disgusting and stupid.

[oldandhappy]

28. Massive manipulation has come back to bite them.

DNC and DWS have a lot to answer for -- not that they will every admit anything.

[closeupready]

34. They are all in this for themselves. They'll CONTINUE manipulating

and rigging races. The lesson they will draw from this race is they didn't do ENOUGH rigging.

[speaktruthtopower]

23. vs. Trump or Cruz, with even higher negatives

the perfect storm

[ViseGrip]

25. Me think this whole band of repub running was a coup to protect Hillary!

No one who can beat her, except Trump. So they are trying to get rid of him, and the way they are doing it, well....when it comes to psychology just think of the plan, "I don't want you to see that boy anymore!" and what it will breed.

[Myrina]

30. .... but it's all Sanders' fault for telling the truth about her !!!

It's not her fault for being a sellout, opportunist, or a failed legislator ... it's all because of him!!

[EndElectoral]

35. Poor favorability ratings are the death knell in Presidential elections since 1980

http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/do-romneys-favorability-ratings-matter/?_r=0

The fact that Hillary's favorability ratings are poor is not encouraging for the GE.

[TeddyR]

42. How did the Dems end up

With a candidate as disliked as Hills? The 2 major political parties in the US have leading candidates in Trump and Clinton who are disliked by a vast majority of the citizens of this country. That is simply shocking to me.