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Times: Hillary's Toughest Opponent 'Herself'
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Posted on 12/26/2004 2:43:52 AM PST by beyond the sea
New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is already the frontrunner for her party's presidential nomination in 2008.
But to win the general election, she'll have to overcome opposition from a significant number of voters who absolutely can't stand her.
Survey after survey shows that approximately one-third of New Yorkers has a negative opinion of Clinton, the New York Times said Saturday.
"The voters who disapprove of Clinton are numerous and unshakable, and they have been around so long that they have a name in political circles. Hillary haters."
The former first lady's negative image is largely driven by the perception that she traded on her husband's marital misconduct to gain power and influence in government.
While Mrs. Clinton has largely overcome that image with her constituents, outside of New York the percentage of Hillary haters remains problematically high.
In a recent Marist College Institute for Public Opinion survey, roughly 4 of 10 Americans said they disapprove of her.
"There's work for her to do nationally," Marist poll director Lee Miringoff told the Times. "Beyond her appeal to the Democratic base, there is a need for her to build bridges to reach out to moderate Republicans and independent voters if she hopes to succeed."
Mrs. Clinton, however, remains undeterred.
Asked recently whether her divisive image has Republicans hoping that she becomes the Democrats' next presidential nominee, the former first lady told NBC's "Today Show," "We have a president who is quite polarizing - and very successful, I might add."
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To: beyond the sea
Did I mention she is a real loser?
To: freekitty
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posted on
12/26/2004 12:27:10 PM PST
by
petercooper
(DEAN in '08!)
To: freekitty
Did I mention she is a real loser?ROFL!!! I think so!
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posted on
12/26/2004 12:32:21 PM PST
by
beyond the sea
(A man who says he can see through women is missing a lot.)
To: sinanju
Yeah, remember that? Her "Listening tour"? Excuse me, but isn`t suppose to be the other way around, that the PEOPLE listen to you Hitlery? You speak and THEY listen? She comes in like the Queen of the Universe, "Peasents, I will listen to your problems if it doesn`t take up too much of my royal time!"
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posted on
12/26/2004 1:50:23 PM PST
by
Imaverygooddriver
(I`m a very good driver and I approve this message.)
To: beyond the sea
The unique thing about the Swiftvets' ads was they contained a group of highly credible people who were severely injured by Kerry's actions, and spoke out about those injuries. I've following political campaigns since 1952, when I was 10 years old. The Swiftvets are the first group I've seen in all that time do such an attack on national TV and in the national media.
Hillary has individually hurt and antagonized as many individual, relatively "little" people as Kerry did. These include Billy Dale and his wife, of Travel Office fame; the individual police officers and their family members who were injured by the clemency given to Puerto Rican terrorists by the Clintons; many of the 9/11 first responders who think she's human filth, and many others.
A group of these "ordinary" Americans will need to coalesce into something like the Swiftvets and prepare similar hard-hitting commercials to denounce her. If that happens, we'll have a good chance of doing to her what we and the Swiftvets did to Kerry.
To: beyond the sea
and happy holidays to you. :)
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posted on
12/27/2004 7:53:24 AM PST
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: beyond the sea
She still has 900 illegally gathered FBI files. What will she do with them?
To: TomGuy
128
posted on
12/27/2004 8:02:06 AM PST
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Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: beyond the sea
She belongs NOWHERE near the presidency
"My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.... there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president" J. Bradford DeLong professor of economics at Berkeley veteran of the Clinton administration
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posted on
12/27/2004 8:05:27 AM PST
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Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
Hi, Mia, I wanted to let you know I'm back home now. Here's a Hug for You!!!!:-)
D2
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posted on
01/31/2005 10:26:13 PM PST
by
Defender2
(Defending Our Bill of Rights, Our Constitution, Our Country and Our Freedom!!!!)
To: beyond the sea
LOL at the keywords. Classics. Ives/Henry, Jerry Parks, MENA, LD Brown....
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posted on
01/31/2005 10:29:42 PM PST
by
Dan from Michigan
("Guilty! Guilty in the first degree....")
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