2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumABC/WAPO POLL: Hillary’s Popularity Soars Among Democrats, Minorities
The national media desperately want to convince the American public that Hillary is unloved and unpopular. It is a pervasive and pernicious narrative that marginalizes the millions of people who like, admire and support her. The reality is very different from the media spin.Source: Peter Daou at Blue Nation Review
This is the traditional medias favorite storyline: Hillary is hated. Her opponents repeat the point incessantly, hoping it will convince the world that she deserves to be shunned.
Yet somehow she keeps winning. It vexes them.
So the negative numbers are coming from Republicans and Independents who are inundated with Hillary hate day and night. It is an unfortunate fact of her candidacy and career that she is subjected to inordinate levels of negativity, unlike anything any other candidate has endured. That avalanche of invective is bound to suppress her favorability among certain segments of the public.
Read it at: http://bluenationreview.com/hillary-clintons-popularity-soars-among-democrats-minorities/
stopbush
(24,378 posts)MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)sarae
(3,284 posts)DarthDem
(5,253 posts)Or was it just a popularity measure? I didn't see horserace numbers at the link.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)is working?
Remarkable.
SCliberal91294
(170 posts)I thought her favorability among democrats dropped 11 points?
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)rush? sean? don the con?
Thrill
(19,178 posts)Not sure what Poll they were talking about though
MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)Hekate
(90,189 posts)Codeine
(25,586 posts)Maybe ninety. Also, Vince Foster.
sheshe2
(83,341 posts)UMTerp01
(1,048 posts)patsimp
(915 posts)a kennedy
(29,464 posts)writes3000
(4,734 posts)LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)book_worm
(15,951 posts)And pretty much on par with the other Wisconsin poll out today from Monmouth. Hillary will win Wisconsin. If Feingold is 13-points ahead I can't see many people voting for Russ and then voting for Trump. There are a lot of undecided on the presidential poll and relatively few on the Senate race. Those people who are undecided for president are mostly voting Feingold for Senate and in the end they will vote for Hillary, too.
LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)But personally I don't think they are at other times or in other elections.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)What a relief! That really says something! It explains a lot!
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)I just read something on HuffPost about how disliked by virtually everyone she is. Go figure.
tandem5
(2,072 posts)well not really
bucolic_frolic
(42,676 posts)but I don't think excellent public service will do it
I think politicians will do it when they launch an anti-hate campaign,
calling hatred for what it is.
Everything you hear, one of the first filters should be, is it hate?
What are they trying to tell me?
Hekate
(90,189 posts)Someone was earnestly explaining how Hillary and DTs were both equally despised by American voters. Then they displayed the numbers. It was something like 57% of voters can't stand Trump. For Hillary? 37% negative.
First and foremost, that's a 20% difference -- that's not "the same."
But here's where the double-take came in: 37% is the mouth-breather base of the GOP. 37% is the number of people in the USA who are at any one time looking for a strong-man to take over. 37% is actually what any Democratic candidate would expect would never vote for them even if Hell froze over.
yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)"Theres one more crucial detail missing from the unceasing narrative that Hillary is deeply unpopular as promulgated in the ABC headline namely, that she and Trump are viewed negatively for polar opposite reasons. He, because he is a bigot and bully; she, because she is furiously, continuously and unfairly maligned."
LakeArenal
(28,729 posts)I am in the 37% of the left zealots. But no one can win their election with the zealot vote. It helps, but just isn't enough.