Posted on 12/02/2013 3:27:30 PM PST by Kaslin
For the first time in years, more Americans find Hillary Clinton "unfavorable" than "favorable" - although she is still the clear leading potential Democratic nominee for 2016.
The change is likely due to a plethora of recent bad press around the Benghazi scandal, despite the fact that reports from The Weekly Standard, ABC News, and CBS News were later debunked and retracted.
The YouGov/Economist poll makes it obvious that public discontent with Clinton is a recent phenomenon:
During much of her tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton enjoyed generally positive ratings, ratings that continued through much of the spring following her departure from Foggy Bottom: from January through April her net favorability numbers fell below +15 only three times.
But starting around mid-May of this year, the positive feelings began to recede and the secretary’s image has not recovered since, with nearly half of Americans (48%) now holding an unfavourable opinion of her, compared to 46% with a favourable one, for a net rating of -2.
Clinton's favorability decreased between January and November of this year within every demographic, including Democrats. However, a majority of Democrats, Blacks, and Hispanics still consider her favorable today:
As of the end of October, 76% of Democrats supported Clinton as a presidential candidate in 2016, an even larger majority than previous polls had indicated. Yet if there is one thing the favorability poll proves, it is that the political tide can turn very quickly.
Although the latest numbers are important, they are unlikely to stay the same for long.
She was the inevitable candidate in 2008 and they dropped her like a used kleanex. I expect the same treatment in 2016.
Not to worry, America will be told in 2016 that a vote for her opponent (male or female) is akin to misogyny and the end of all women’s rights.
She will NOT be the democrat nominee in 2016. I have never been surer of anything.
Wait until the world explodes due to her totally ineffective stint as SOS. And then there’s Benghazi!
Not toast yet, but warming up!
She’ll be a 69 year old hag in 2016. Sorry, Hillary Clinton is neither Ronald Reagan nor Golda Meir, both elected at that age.
Not verbatim but some that were assigned to her as first hag and as Sec of State are now divulging she is a lying lesbian wretch. Now that’s presidential material especially if you like what we now have.
Her job now is to take the spotlight away from the real democrat players who are jockeying for position to be the nominee. They like to spring people on us so nobody has time to vet them - Jimmy who? Bill who? Barack who?
Some idiots would vote for a poop-stain as long as it’s a democrat. In my book, Hillary’s even lower than a poop-stain.
To call her a poop-stain would be an embellishment.
It is YEARS before the 2016 election. WHAT DOES IT MATTER?
Remember, DemoRats will vote for ANYTHING with a “D” after its name...afterall, we got Obama, didn’t we??
This felonious Marxist socialist won’t make the grade....she would be a stooge for the America-hating radical leftist funding cult just like Obama. The agenda would be no different. Why would anyone think that remaining married to Billy and hanging on to Washington like an incurable social disease, is for anything but political power and monetary gain?
This is an easy act to follow...
She’s a disgusting, power mad pig.
I could go on all day about how much I can’t stand her, and can’t stand people like her in general.
Most people would rather listed to fingernails scratching across a chalk board than listen to her obnoxious voice. She reminds me of the ex-wife I am glad I never married.
She has the intellect of a drunken chimpanzee.
Her demeanor is that of a rutting boar.
Her voice is as long fingernails shrieking slowly and painfully across slate.
Her bloated face looks like a wrinkled, deflating balloon.
And worst of all, WORST of ALL, she is a DemonRAT.
DNC Caller: "So, we can count on your vote, then?"
Absent her, they may go with Fauxcahontas.
> DNC Caller: “So, we can count on your vote, then?”
ROFLOLOL!!!!
All the more funny, because it’s TRUE!
after they scr...... her the last time, you think she’s going back for more
Don’t be surprised if they throw Jarrett into the mix.
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