Posted on 07/26/2016 1:45:34 PM PDT by Zakeet
As the DNC ramps up to full force, new polling data from Gallup suggests that Hillary's favorability ratings have dipped to their lowest levels in the 24 years of her public career. The latest poll, conducted July 16-23, revealed that only 38% of respondents had a favorable view of Hillary vs. 57% unfavorable. This poll should come as little surprise to anyone who watched the DNC fiasco yesterday where the crowd of Democrats often erupted into chants of "Lock Her Up." We suspect that there is further downside for Hillary on the favorability scale as the majority of this poll was conducted prior to recent revelations from the Wikileaks email leak which have cast a shadow over the entire Democrat party.
The breakdown is not surprising: 71% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents view Clinton favorably, compared with fewer than one in 10 Republicans.
More details:
Gallup first measured Hillary Clinton's image in 1992 as her husband campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination. Her image, like Bill Clinton's, was mixed in the spring of that year but then grew more positive. Her favorable ratings were above 60% at several points in 1993, and more than six in 10 Americans viewed her favorably at other points as well: when her husband was impeached by the House and tried by the Senate in 1998 and 1999, from 2009 through 2013 while she served as secretary of state, and in April 2013 after she returned to being a private citizen.After launching her campaign last year and as her handling of emails while secretary of state became an increasingly public and controversial issue, Americans' views of Clinton began their downslide.
Americans' history of changing their views of Clinton from positive to negative and back to positive since 1992 suggests it's possible -- although not highly likely, given recent trends -- that her image could improve as the Democratic convention unfolds this week. Overall, 55% of Americans viewed her favorably and 39% unfavorably from 1992 through 2014. That long-term average is almost an exact flip of her current 38% favorable, 57% unfavorable rating. This shows how much more negatively the public views her now in the midst of her campaign and email controversy than they have historically.
Gallup's conclusion:
Two highly unpopular candidates are waging the 2016 presidential campaign. Clinton enters her convention with almost six in 10 Americans holding a negative opinion of her, similar to Americans' negative views of her opponent, Trump.Clinton is one of the best-known politicians in the U.S., with almost a quarter-century of national public exposure as a first lady, a U.S. senator, a secretary of state and now a candidate for president. While Americans' positive views of Clinton have moved up and down over the years, she now is on the verge of accepting the Democratic Party's presidential nomination with an image that is as negative as it has ever been.
The only upside from today's polling data for Democrats is that the only person that Americans seem to dislike more than Hillary Clinton is Donald Trump, who had a 59% unfavorable rating. That said, Trump's villain status hasn't seemed to impact his ability to win elections.
... can hardly wait to see the numbers after her acceptance speech is greeted by a massive fart-in from the Bernie bunch!
Basically all the Hillary voters are at the convention. That is as good as it gets.
A large part of why Bubba didn’t get a second term as governor of AR was because nobody in the state liked Hillary.
What is there about her to like? Who are the 38%?
Yes, 38% seems pretty high.
Saw this in PPP NC: Tied in 4-way, Trump up 2 in 2-way, but with a “registered” voter sample of . . . D+9
Now, 2012 was +3 R. That’s not a “gap”, that’s the Grand Canyon.
She is absolutely just a nasty person.
Rough order of magnitude - that puts Trump up @20%, which I think is about right in NC as of now.
Clinton is one of the best-known politicians in the U.S.
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Which is why she’s so unpopular.
We know she’s a crook.
The FBI just told us so.
This felon needs to be in prison.
Hillary Clinton has spent her entire life lusting after power that she has no talent for gaining for herself. New York may have lulled her into believing that she can win but NY was a sincure. She’s nobody and she is only finding out now...
I think there are still enough of us older people who have grown so tired of the Clintoons for 30 or so years and hopefully this will be the last time we hear or see anything out of either one of them! My pettiness is in full force right now so I’m hoping she’ll get booed the likes of which we’ve never seen in history on Thursday night. Go Trump!
She’ll probably do the speech via video, as the berniebots won’t allow her TP speak in person.
“Security reasons, don’cha know!
Trump has not hit his ceiling. Hillary has not hit her floor.
And she is not nearly a good enough politician to pull herself out of this.
Their only moves are 1) buy as many votes as they can with freebies, and 2) try and drive Trump’s negatives lower than hers.
The latter I think is mathematically impossible.
That reminds me: anyone else turn off The Five because Gutfeld has been wearing a t-shirt in support of Hillary the last couple of shows?
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