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Even supporters agree: Clinton has weaknesses as a candidate. (People hate her) What can she do?
Washington Post ^ | May 15, 2016 | Anne Gearan and Dan Balz

Posted on 05/16/2016 2:14:27 PM PDT by Zakeet

Hillary Clinton's declining personal image, ongoing battle to break free of the challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders and struggle to adapt to an anti-establishment mood among voters this year have become caution signs for her campaign and the focus of new efforts to fortify her position as she prepares for a bruising general election.

More than a dozen Clinton ­allies identified weaknesses in her candidacy that may erode her prospects of defeating Donald Trump, including poor showings with young women, untrustworthiness, unlikability and a lackluster style on the stump. Supporters also worry that she is a conventional candidate in an unconventional election in which voters clearly favor renegades.

"I bring it down to one thing and one thing only, and that is likability," said Peter Hart, a Democratic pollster who has conducted a series of focus groups for the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 2016election; annegearan; danbalz; districtofcolumbia; hillary; image; likeability; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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For some mysterious reason, people just don't like the ugly, old, corrupt, incompetent, drunken grandmother.

1 posted on 05/16/2016 2:14:27 PM PDT by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

Hillary should drop out.

She is only running for president to kill the FBI investigation.


2 posted on 05/16/2016 2:16:40 PM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: Zakeet

And there’s the fact that she and hubby took money ($500K) from a foreign country while Secretary of State. I’ve got to believe that’s illegal.


3 posted on 05/16/2016 2:17:20 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (The reason for Gun Control has always been Government's Fear of Rebellion.)
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To: Zakeet

Personality transplant.

She always comes off as an angry lesbian


4 posted on 05/16/2016 2:18:34 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Helicondelta

Noooooo. We want her to be the candidate


5 posted on 05/16/2016 2:19:09 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: Zakeet

What can she do?

Quit.

Quit now, while you are ahead. Collect your pardon from 0bama, and take your hundreds of millions of dollars and buy an island somewhere to go live with your “life partner” Huma.


6 posted on 05/16/2016 2:19:33 PM PDT by henkster (DonÂ’t listen to what people say, watch what they do.)
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To: Zakeet

What can she do. How bout tie a short rope around her neck and jump off a building.


7 posted on 05/16/2016 2:20:02 PM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarme)
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To: Zakeet

She can use the JFK solution. People forget how unpopular he had become during the summer of 1963. Getting his haid blowed off did a lot for his popularity.


8 posted on 05/16/2016 2:21:22 PM PDT by MIchaelTArchangel (Don't Shut Down the Government! Eliminate Major Parts of the Government!)
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What can she do?

How about drop out of the race and write a 1,000 page confession of all her crimes (at least the ones she can remember) and throw herself at the mercy of the courts.


9 posted on 05/16/2016 2:21:24 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: MIchaelTArchangel
She can use the JFK solution. People forget how unpopular he had become during the summer of 1963. Getting his haid blowed off did a lot for his popularity.

Death is usually a good career move.

10 posted on 05/16/2016 2:22:17 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: rfreedom4u

Only AFTER it is too late for the Dems to round up another candidate.


11 posted on 05/16/2016 2:22:53 PM PDT by bigredkitty1 (March 5,2010. Rest in peace, sweet boy. I will miss you, Big Red.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

#7. Winner Winner. Chicken dinner.


12 posted on 05/16/2016 2:25:57 PM PDT by Palio di Siena
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To: Zakeet

Drop out is the correct answer. Only the fellow rug munchers and their ilk and people with sub < 80 IQs support her.


13 posted on 05/16/2016 2:25:57 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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Anyone lulling themselves into thinking that hillary-dillary’s campaign isn’t a force to be reckoned with need only look at the videos from the Nevada convention. Her supporters are as every bit the pit-bull that she is. And unlike normal people they aren’t burdened by notions such as ethics or legality.


14 posted on 05/16/2016 2:26:14 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rfreedom4u

That is the only choice.


15 posted on 05/16/2016 2:27:02 PM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: BuffaloJack
> And there’s the fact that she and hubby took money ($500K) from a foreign country while Secretary of State. I’ve got to believe that’s illegal.

I imagine a lot of their wealth has been accumulated by selling state secrets. If you've studied their history it's a logical conclusion.

16 posted on 05/16/2016 2:28:50 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Nifster
"She always comes off as an angry lesbian."

Well, to thine own self be true, she comes off that way because that's exactly what she is.

17 posted on 05/16/2016 2:30:22 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Rashputin
That should be "angry criminal lesbian".
18 posted on 05/16/2016 2:31:25 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: Nifster

There’s a good reason for that, one would suspect.


19 posted on 05/16/2016 2:31:41 PM PDT by OKSooner
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To: hal ogen

I prefer Satanic, but criminal will do if a more elaborate description is required.


20 posted on 05/16/2016 2:33:51 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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