Posted on 07/13/2015 11:42:28 AM PDT by Din Maker
Pundits have focused recently on Hillary Clinton’s narrowing lead in polls among a group of less well known Republicans, along with voters' growing skepticism about her integrity. But there's a more immediate threat to her electability: In the last few weeks, Clinton has lost significant ground in New Hampshire and Iowa to socialist Bernie Sanders.
The latest Suffolk University poll has Sanders within 10 percentage points of Clinton, at 41-31, among Democrats in New Hampshire. Clinton is only eight points ahead of Sanders, 43-35, in a WMUR/CNN poll. In Iowa she has slipped 26 points since May.
Considering this enthusiasm gap, and data from an Iowa focus group that showed Clinton’s supporters struggling to list her accomplishments, Hillary finds herself in a precarious position. At this point, national poll numbers mean far less than the numbers in primary and caucus states. That means that Clinton is in serious trouble.
Clinton finds herself with a real and credible threat in the primaries from Sanders, who spoke to 10,000 cheering supporters in Madison, Wisconsin last week—the biggest crowd that a candidate from either party has drawn.
Over the holiday weekend Sanders drew a crowd of 2,500 in Iowa while Clinton saw much smaller crowds in New Hampshire and was heckled by a voter carrying a poster that read “Benghazi” and taunts such as “carpetbagger” and “tell us when you were poor” at the former Secretary of State.
If Hillary loses the first two states next year—and she could—the landscape will change, just as it did for Lyndon Johnson in 1968, when he effectively "lost" the New Hampshire primary by winning just 49-42 over Senator Eugene McCarthy. That led to LBJ’s withdrawal from the race.
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The Sunday morning talking heads basically all agree that she bombed in her CNN Interview last week.
I still think it’ll be O’Malley. At least he looks like a normal being, and that does matter.
“The Old Hag” not doing good? Who would have guessed?? LMAO
Electing Hillary Clinton president would be like granting Satan absolution and giving him the keys to heaven!
Bernie Sanders may be the Eugene McCarthy of 2016. Waiting for Hillary to go on tv and announce, ‘I shall not seek, nor will I accept, the nomination of my party for another term as you President.’
**Clinton’s supporters struggling to list her accomplishments**
There is a reason for that.
Hence her channeling of Liz Warren in today’s economic speech.
Thoroughly hypocritical on so many levels, yet I suspect the average Dem voter is dumb enough to buy it.
Her biggest threat is Marge N. Overra......................
I am not a Trumpophile, but didn’t he have 15 - 20k people at an event this weekend? They seem to have their numbers off.
Hillary can’t pull out of the race. This way, she can keep claiming the Benghazi investigation is political.
Our girl did bad things in Libya. She’s going to fight hard to keep from going to prison.
Douglas Schoen is a Democratic pollster if I’m not mistaken, but I think he’s of the Pat Caddell mode in tbat he will say if a Democrat politician is polling badly and won’t try to sugarcoat it.
I’m not sure what’s scarier, the fact that Hillary might win, or the fact that if she loses it will be because a larger portion of the democrat party thought she was not left wing enough and believe an avowed socialist of the Hugo Chavez variety is closer to what the modern democrat party stands for.
I heard clip from her NYC speech on Rush’s show today.
A wood chipper makes a more pleasant sound to my ears...
The Dem media is already done with Hillary.
The Democrats are in trouble, serious trouble. Hillary is their Might Casey at bat. They don’t have a deep bench, and most of that is because both the Clintons and the Obama people have gathered their supporters into their own camps and razed anyone who tries to stand on their own.
The Obama camp tried to push Elizabeth Warren, but she didn’t even gain traction in the Democrat Party as a whole. The Clinton people were thrilled about that as it meant Hillary would coast to the nomination.
But Hillary is looking worse and worse with each passing week and when she is losing ground to a self-proclaimed and proud socialist, you know there is panic in the upper echelon. They simply don’t have anyone else to put forward.
The number one power to get the nomination is the air of inevitability. If you can convince the party voters your candidate will win no matter what they do, you have won 90% of the fight.
The Republican leadership tried that with Bush, and the Democrats are trying that with Hillary. I predict both of those hand-picked names will be out of the race by Jan 1st of next year.
I’ve seen seen some friends online really touting Sanders. No really. Definite democrats, but I didn’t think outright socialists. I think that’s where the party is though, now. I have no doubt each one of these will turn out even if Hillary is the candidate, but I have this feeling that someone else more radical and a lot younger than Sanders will show up and edge her out...again. There just isn’t much excitement for H>.
Her strategy is to mostly talk "First Woman" the way with Obama he was elected as First Black (maybe last at this point for a while). She has to limit her time talking anywhere and I predict she will try and reduce appearances and debates to as few as possible
since every time she speaks her ratings go..
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