Posted on 07/01/2015 7:23:48 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross
Liberals are pros when it comes to getting people out to vote, but a new survey shows Hillary Clinton will have major trouble turning out Democrats in 2016. From Real Clear Politics (bolding is mine):
Americans want change and reforms, but “people don’t think any of this is going to happen,” Stan Greenberg, chairman and CEO of polling firm Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, said during a reporter roundtable organized by the Christian Science Monitor.
Their skepticism doesn’t turn on the idea of a Democratic nominee who would follow a two-term Democrat, President Obama. “It’s because the old political system is uniquely corrupted” in their eyes, Greenberg said. “What matters is how deep the critique people have about what’s happening in the country, both politically and economically.”
Voters define corruption as money in politics and Washington power brokers who are self-serving and disconnected from everyday Americans and their concerns. This is why Clinton’s wealth, the Clinton Foundation’s fundraising, her decades lived as a VIP, and her missing emails discourage some voters from accepting the leading Democratic candidate as trustworthy, even if they favor the economic and social policies she stakes out.
The Democratic Party’s strategy to hold control of the White House and win congressional seats next year relies on America’s shifting demographics and on voter turnout. But “if the disparity in enthusiasm is not addressed, that strategy is at risk,” Democracy Corps wrote in a synopsis of the findings that began, “Democrats need to give voters a reason to participate.”
The threat comes down to an enthusiasm gap of 19 points between the Democrats who say they are “extremely interested” in the congressional and local races in 2016, and the much more energized GOP voters.
Meanwhile, while Democratic voters aren't necessarily interested or confident in Hillary Clinton, progressive candidate Bernie Sanders is catching up and leftist darling Elizabeth Warren could end up on the campaign trail to back him.
Will Warren support the new favorite son of the left and hit the campaign trail for him? "Too early to say," she told the Boston Herald on Monday. Warren has so far refrained from endorsing any Democratic presidential candidate, but she sure sounded enthusiastic about Bernie when speaking with the Herald. "These are people who care about these issues, and that’s who Bernie’s reaching," she told the paper. "I love what Bernie is talking about. I think all the presidential candidates should be out talking about the big issues."
Clinton's enthusiasm gap with voters explains her visits to places like Ferguson and her race-baiting language on the campaign trail. It's an effort and strategy to get the same voters who put Barack Obama in the Oval Office twice to do the same for her. It isn't working. Not to mention, if Clinton is already having trouble with Democrats, she's in major trouble when it comes to the rest of the country.
NOW do you understand why the Dems/Biased Media are trying to gin up all of the racial hate??
Oh, they’ll have no trouble “digging up” the votes they need...
I think this is the goal of both parties. After two more years of capitulation, and a rino nomination, I don’t see Republicans turning out voters either. I think the game is to keep the bases demoralized while both parties solidify power.
Hillary proposed 20 days of voting.
Perfect for voting early and often...
lol. Yeah. OK. Wanna buy a bridge?
...’The Old Hag’ will pay people to vote for her...with all the monies she’s stealing, and the ‘Mansions’ she lives in...no problem there...and then she can ‘dig’ up the rest of the votes...
This is why I think there is a increasing possibility there could be a "draft Gavin Newsom" movement in the Democratic Party. And it's not hard to figure out why: Newsom has REAL executive-level political experience (Mayor of San Francisco for two terms, now Lt. Governor of California), and Newsom will be younger than 50 years old on Election Day 2016, which makes him VERY attractive to younger voters like Barack Obama was in 2008.
I think the Dems know they’re in trouble. Even the liberals I know are, obviously, not very excited about Hillary. They’re looking for somebody else. The problem is Bernie seems to be their only alternative....but I think they know he doesn’t really have a chance in the general election.
As Hillary continues to run for President it is influencing other potential candidates to not run...thinning the pool. This is not good for them but they can’t do anything about it.
They will turn out and vote for her.
Her problem is in the primaries and not against the GOP. She is not Liberal enough for today’s Democrat Party. They have moved twelve paces to the left since she was First Lady. The Fake Indian is truly at the center of where they are today.
The main ones against Hilary are the kids that ate her gingerbread house...
She is the most unlikeable person ever to run for president.
Yep! And I think the hildabutchbitch had a stroke back when the congress critters wanted her to testify.
She is an old, skanky, snarky, stinky, commie, lesbo, thief, whore, lying bitch; and those are her good qualities.
I could go on for hours about the butchbitch's virtues, but it is too tiresome to write so many nice things about the puta.
You think Jeb will have an easier time turning out Republican voters?
Oh no she won’t.
Dimwits will vote Hillary NO MATTER WHAT.
Doesn’t matter if their nominee is corrupt, incompetant or a complete embarrassment to them - They’ll vote for her no matter what.
The dims could chant “Death to America!” at their convention and their base would join in and still vote for them. They care more for their PARTY than their own Country and way of life.
-Oh, and they HATE Republicans too and will do ANYTHING to counter them. Nothing else matters to them.
But CRUZ will .... and as a Third Party candidate if it comes to that.
The critical votes are independents...which won’t.
Not to worry. Those that do turnout will vote five or six times each. Obama will make sure they have plenty of walking around money for their efforts.
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