Hillary Clinton's Favorability Rating Among Democrats Hit a New Low

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Hillary Clinton's Favorability Rating Among Democrats Hit a New Low
Bernie Sanders' favorability has also slid, though he is still 16 points higher than Clinton.
By Alexandra Rosenmann
April 15, 2016


Hillary Clinton may be the Democratic frontrunner, but her appeal is waning. According to the HuffPost Pollster average, 55 percent of the electorate now views Clinton unfavorably—and 40.2 percent of people view her favorably, according to the same average.

“[The numbers] are pretty bad,” said Democratic strategist Brad Bannon. “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. 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.”

Historically, 62 percent of voters saw Barack Obama as favorable at this point in the 2008 election.

The same pattern shows for the 2000 election; in March 2000, then-Texas Governor George W. Bush’s favorability was even higher: 63 percent.

On the Democratic side, Bernie Sanders' favorability has slid this month also, but is still 16 points higher than Clinton on the net favorable scale.



http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/hillary-clintons-favorability-rating-among-democrats-hit-new-low

[CountAllVotes]

1. Easy come

Easy go.

Sanders 2016!!

[HooptieWagon]

2. Perhaps her trustworthy and favor ability #s will improve when she's indicted.

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3. She won't beat a "moderate" Republican candidate an open convention might select.

It's looking more and more that Republican party leaders won't let Trump or Cruz get the nomination.

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4. I don't think she can even beat Trump.

She won't get the Dem turnout Obama did, and will lose every swing state he barely won. Republicans may not like Trump, but they'll flock to the polls to vote against Hillary.

[BernieforPres2016]

5. Hillary's strategy of pulling down Bernie's favorables has worked; he's down 11%

Unfortunately for Hillary, her favorables have also dropped by 11%.

People forgot how untrustworthy and unlikeable Hillary is until they started seeing her regularly again. She has dropped from 63% to 36% favorable in the last 6 months.

[Vinca]

6. I guess the Beatles were right. "Money can't buy me love."

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7. I didn't realize his favorability among Dems was so much higher than hers.

It's completely shifted over the past month.

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8. And it's even higher than Hillarys among independents