Posted on 06/02/2015 4:04:33 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Washington (CNN)More people have an unfavorable view of Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton now than at any time since 2001, according to a new CNN/ORC poll on the 2016 race.
While Clinton remains strikingly dominant in the Democratic field, the poll shows that her numbers have dropped significantly across several key indicators since she launched her campaign in April.
A growing number of people say she is not honest and trustworthy (57%, up from 49% in March), less than half feel she cares about people like them (47%, down from 53% last July) and more now feel she does not inspire confidence (50%, up from 42% last March).
In head-to-head match-ups against top Republicans, her margin is tighter than it has been at any point in CNN/ORC's polling on the contest.
READ: The complete CNN/ORC 2016 poll
On the Republican side, though, no candidate has successfully broken out of the pack.
The group of seven that have come to dominate most polling on the race hold the top of the charts in this poll, Sen. Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush leading the pack with Mike Huckabee, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, Sen. Ted Cruz, Ben Carson and Sen. Rand Paul all in the hunt.
Much of Clinton's fade is attributable to shifts among independents, but she's also losing some ground among her own partisans. Her support in the Democratic nomination contest has dropped 9 points since April, and though more than 8-in-10 Democrats said they thought she was honest and trustworthy earlier this year; now, just 73% say so.
The new CNN/ORC poll looking at the shape of the race for the presidency in 2016 finds these warning signs for Clinton, alongside some concerns for the Republican Party's best-known contender, Jeb Bush.
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And I don’t see how this isn’t her high water mark. I don’t believe she has ever had to really debate or answer a conservative in any forum.
Speed bumps? Those are voters and media types run over by the Scooby Doo van! Now go to the back of the line!
And Team Hillary’s response to her plunging popularity is .... more hiding out in the underground bunker. Brilliant.
With geniuses like this running her campaign, Hillary’s going nowhere fast. Bwaaahahaha!
Walker/Fiorina 2016!!
This is a shell game. While we are concentrating on Clinton they are building support behind someone else.
Run Warren Run, an organized, long-shot effort to encourage Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to run for president, will close its doors next week as their hero continues to unequivocally buck those calls.
The campaign by Democracy for America and MoveOn.org Political Action will suspend operations next Monday after delivering a petition to Warren with 365,000 signatures asking her to run. But the gesture isn’t likely to change the Massachusetts Democrat’s mind, as she’s been resolute in statements rejecting the idea of a possible bid.
As many progressive Democrats worried about Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton’s liberal chops, they coalesced around Warren as their ideal choice. In its six months, Run Warren Run launched field offices in both Iowa and New Hampshire and held hundreds of rallies to support its effort.
But while the calls never publicly moved the needle toward a Warren presidential campaign, the groups points to their efforts as a main reason that Clinton burst out of the gate espousing progressive stances on issues like income inequality and campaign finance reform.
“Even without her in the race, Elizabeth Warren and the Run Warren Run campaign she inspired have already transformed the 2016 presidential election by focusing every single Democratic candidate on combatting our country’s income inequality crisis,” Charles Chamberlain, executive director of Democracy for America, said in a statement.
“We still think there’s plenty of time for Sen. Warren to change her mind, but now that we’ve shown that she has the support she would need to mount a winning a campaign, we’re excited to take the grassroots juggernaut we’ve built with our members and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Warren in the battles ahead.”
For her part, Warren has seemed more comfortable battling to shape the country’s direction in the Senate instead of on the stump. She emerged as President Obama’s key antagonist against fast-track trade legislation, sparring with him on the deal through the media.
Ilya Sheyman, the executive director of MoveOn.org Political Action, said in a statement that the group will reposition its efforts to work with Warren on shared issues, including the trade deal.
“The Run Warren Run campaign has changed the conversation by showing that Americans are hungry for Elizabeth Warren’s agenda—an agenda that rejects the rigged status quo in Washington and puts working and middle-class Americans over corporate interests,” he said in a statement.
“Now it’s time to suspend our active draft efforts and pivot to standing alongside Sen. Warren on the big fights ahead, starting with stopping Fast Track for the Trans-Pacific Partnership.”
Good one Cincinatus’ Wife
I got that great cartoon from Travis McGee.
It’s spot on.
“A growing number of people say she is not honest and trustworthy (57%, up from 49% in March), less than half feel she cares about people like them (47%, down from 53% last July)...”
I suppose that is good news, it seems to indicate that slightly less than half of those polled are brain dead.
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