It is nice to have a Popular Dem President

[gabeana]

that is going to be an asset in the fall

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/us/politics/hillary-clinton-obama.html?&_r=0

[brooklynite]

1. It's VERY nice to have a nominee who's willing to take advantage of him...

[pinebox]

2. It's too bad Hillary's unfavorability is like 60%

[jamese777]

4. "Too bad" except for...

"we are in a position where both parties have extremely negative views of the opposite party and that pulls down the candidates' favorables," said Charles Franklin, director of the Marquette Law School poll. "The good news for both of them is they have to run against each other. So, in that sense, neither is substantially disadvantaged."

Hillary Clinton should be thankful that her opponent is the reviled Donald Trump. Every day, a different member of his own party says that they can't support him.

[Lizzie Poppet]

5. That comes nowhere near accounting for that enormous unfavorable %.

Republicans are under 30% of the electorate. Twice that percentage view HRC unfavorably.

But that's still a good point about both likely candidates being viewed so poorly by most Americans. Each has their little core base...and not much beyond.

[jamese777]

3. By The Numbers

Gallup Poll. Rolling average. N=approx. 1,500 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.nationwide.
June 6-8, 2016
"Do you approve or disapprove of the way Barack Obama is handling his job as president?"
Approve: 53%
Disapprove: 43%

At the same point in time in his presidency, George W. Bush was at:
Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling his job as president?
June 9-12, 2008
Approve: 30%
Disapprove: 64%
Unsure: 6%

[Romulox]

6. Hillary is the most disliked candidate in modern Dem. history though. Oops! nt

[Bluenorthwest]

7. It's been a very long time since either Party had an incumbent President strongly campaigning

for his successor. Bush 2 was worthless, Gore refused Clinton, Reagan endorsed but did not hit the road for Bush 1, and it just goes on like that.
It's been like a hundred years or something.