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imagine2015

(2,054 posts)
Fri May 20, 2016, 09:19 PM May 2016

Poll: Clinton is viewed more corrupt than Trump 49% to 37% and more negatively than Trump 61% to 56%

Wall Street Journal
May 20, 2016
Opinion
Bernie Isn’t Hillary’s Problem
Democrats are bashing Sanders, but they should worry more about their presumptive nominee

Hillary and Bill Clinton have used politics to become members of the richest 0.1%. She and her husband are walking conflicts of political interest—see the Clinton Foundation and its foreign donors with business before the State Department. And Mrs. Clinton represents big money and Wall Street—see her Goldman Sachs speeches.

Above all Mrs. Clinton represents the policy status quo that for seven years has failed to deliver on its central promises of 2008 and 2012. Health-care costs haven’t fallen, wages have barely risen, income inequality has worsened, and whites and blacks say that racial tensions have increased. This is the reality that the Sandernistas are implicitly rejecting when they say the system has failed them.

Mr. Sanders’s supporters are also figuring out that their man might have a better chance of beating Donald Trump than Mrs. Clinton does. Clinton Democrats won’t say this explicitly, but they believe that an honest socialist can’t win. Yet recent head-to-head polls show Mr. Trump ahead or close to Mrs. Clinton, while Mr. Sanders leads the Republican.

The latest Fox News poll shows that Mrs. Clinton is viewed as more corrupt than Mr. Trump, 49% to 37%. She is also now viewed negatively by more of the electorate than is Mr. Trump—61% to 56%. This takes some doing given Mr. Trump’s incendiary primary campaign and the continuing doubts about him among millions of Republicans.

The 2016 campaign has a long way to go, and Mr. Trump has major vulnerabilities. But as the general election comes into focus, Democrats should wonder if they erred in clearing the nomination path for Mrs. Clinton. It was her turn, they thought. She’d mobilize the party’s identity groups as the first woman nominee, and the Clinton political machine would do whatever it takes to win. The reality is that she may be the only Democrat who could lose to Donald Trump.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/bernie-isnt-hillarys-problem-1463784149

From a favorite newspaper of big business and Wall Street sharks and their political benefactors. Imagine2015









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Poll: Clinton is viewed more corrupt than Trump 49% to 37% and more negatively than Trump 61% to 56% (Original Post) imagine2015 May 2016 OP
It is an Opinion piece from a Murdock rag, but here is what they feel about Sanders still_one May 2016 #1
That article is a year old! And it turned out that Republicans are giving money to Clinton! imagine2015 May 2016 #4
Yay! Shes winning in the polls... SwampG8r May 2016 #2
Is anyone surprised SmittynMo May 2016 #3
FOX News poll. Metric System May 2016 #5
Yeah .... LenaBaby61 May 2016 #7
fox news? wall st journal? trump/sanders 2016! nt msongs May 2016 #6
This poll is consistent with all polling over the past six months senz May 2016 #8
Wow! Worst candidate ever. nt mhatrw May 2016 #9

SmittynMo

(3,544 posts)
3. Is anyone surprised
Fri May 20, 2016, 09:42 PM
May 2016

by these numbers? I'm not.

We are sooooooooo f*cked. We're handing the presidency right to Trump.

LenaBaby61

(6,965 posts)
7. Yeah ....
Fri May 20, 2016, 11:16 PM
May 2016

Fox and other right-winged themed polling outfits are starting to trot out polling here in the early Summer months showing that BOTH Democratic nominees (Hillary Clinton/Bernie Sanders) GE numbers are starting to drop vs Trump.

:laughter:

 

senz

(11,945 posts)
8. This poll is consistent with all polling over the past six months
Fri May 20, 2016, 11:53 PM
May 2016

showing Sanders beating Trump by increasingly wider and wider margins than Clinton.

It is also in keeping with more recent polls showing Clinton either tying with or losing to Trump while Sanders' winning margin grows steadily wider.

If Democrats want to keep Trump out of the presidency, we should throw our support behind Bernie Sanders -- the only one who can beat Trump.

Unless ... the DNC Dems' true goal is to keep the oligarchs safely in control, whether through Clinton or through Trump.

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