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Marist poll shows Hillary fading in 2016 matchups
Hotair ^ | 08/14/2014 | Ed Morrissey

Posted on 08/15/2014 5:21:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Whatever the Hillary Clinton team had in mind for this summer, this certainly can’t have been it. Her book Hard Choices got panned as political pablum, and she stumbled throughout her promotional tour on what should have been easy and easily-foreseeable questions about her personal wealth and tenure at State. Over the past week, she picked a fight with the White House by attempting to distance herself from Barack Obama’s lack of “organizing principles” in foreign policy, only to make a quick and embarrassing retreat when rebuked publicly by David Axelrod.

At the beginning of the summer, Clinton’s popularity put her far above the presumed pack for the 2016 presidential race. These days, according to a new Marist poll … not so much:

Potential Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s lead over a crowded prospective Republican field has narrowed and her support has slipped below 50 percent, according to a new McClatchy-Marist poll. …

For example, Clinton leads Christie 47 percent to 41 percent with 12 percent of voters undecided. In April, she led 53-42 with 5 percent undecided, and in February she enjoyed a 58-37 lead against the governor with 6 percent undecided.

She’s seen her cushion against Bush, brother of former President George W. Bush, erode to 48 percent to 41 percent with 10 percent undecided. That’s down from 55-39 with 6 percent undecided in April.

And against Paul, her lead has shrunk to 48 percent to 42 percent with 10 percent undecided from 54-40 and 6 percent undecided in April.


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016; clinton; hillary; hillary2016; maristpoll
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1 posted on 08/15/2014 5:21:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Too soon, dang it! I so want Hillary to be the Dem nominee,,would make things much easier.


2 posted on 08/15/2014 5:24:14 AM PDT by austinaero
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To: SeekAndFind

She will not be nominated, she may not even run.


3 posted on 08/15/2014 5:29:40 AM PDT by ReaganÜberAlles (To be a Liberal is to be anti-American, by definition.)
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To: austinaero

Like I’ve been saying, it’s going to be Cory Booker, Anthony Foxx, or Julian Castro.


4 posted on 08/15/2014 5:30:59 AM PDT by struggle
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Morning Joe Consensus: Hillary's Canned Quality Makes You Cringe NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein / FR Posted by governsleastgovernsbest

So lacking is Hillary in the most basic of personal political prerequisites that even Morning Joe called her "canned" and cringeworthy. The panel was commenting on an excruciating clip of Clinton prior to her hug-it-out dinner with President Obama...... there is something about Clinton's public persona as to be seriously off-putting. View the video here. (Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...

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The Clintons are paranoid---Hillary's "dead broke" comment to ABC's Diane Sawyer is haunting her candidacy. The Clintons lay awake nights, trying to dream up angles to make voters forget her "dead broke" bomb.

She's really desperate---picking on the Redskins franchise last week. She bombed doing an outlandish comedy routine w/ Colbert. Where she'll strike next is anybody's guess.

Maybe she'll take it all off for Playboy---seeing that "she needs the money"?

Maybe Hillary, Bill and Chelsea will stand in a bread line, join hands and sing Kumbaya?

5 posted on 08/15/2014 5:34:15 AM PDT by Liz
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To: SeekAndFind
The difference between Hillary, Margaret Thatcher, Angela Merkel.

Hillary lacks wisdom. She lives for a cause....any cause that will gather a crowd.

But something like Benghazi.....Not an ounce of common sense.

6 posted on 08/15/2014 5:34:25 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: SeekAndFind

What difference, at this point, does it make?

Nov 2016 is at least two political lifetimes away.


7 posted on 08/15/2014 5:34:58 AM PDT by upchuck (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care.)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

I expect a fainting spell around October 31st.


8 posted on 08/15/2014 5:35:18 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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9 posted on 08/15/2014 5:36:53 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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HILL AND OBOBO "HUG IT OUT" ON MARTHA'S VINEYARD:
Hillary Clinton dissed Obama’s foreign policy failures, mostly seen as her
attempt to create space from an unpopular White House. But Hillary was
determined to assure Obama that her remarks weren’t meant as "an attack"
(just in case the aghast lefty vote spilled their chilled Cristal).

"No big deal---you wanted to pepper spray terrorists, I wanted to water-bomb them w/ happy face balloons."

Wiping away a tear, Obama's former van driver, and Hillary's "MESSAGING GURU," dudester Tommy Vietor said, “They’re friends and human beings
first,” he sobbed.
Vietor once sat in on Obama's Situation Room briefings and
had National Security Clearance. He now does "messaging" for a living. Hillary
hired Vietor to mastermind her book tour.

So much for "messaging"---Hill's book went straight to the $2 bin.

10 posted on 08/15/2014 5:38:11 AM PDT by Liz
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To: SeekAndFind

How’s she doing against Chief Lizzy Warren among Dems?


11 posted on 08/15/2014 5:39:09 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

She comes across as a tone deaf, bitter old shrew. Can’t imagine the Dems really want to nominate her.


12 posted on 08/15/2014 5:41:38 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: SeekAndFind

Poor Hillary. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.


13 posted on 08/15/2014 5:46:11 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard ("When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.")
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The Clintons were relying heavily on "white privilege" to get back into office. The Clintons' have benefitted from, and are climbing back into office, using privileges far beyond those of the "community of color" to whom they plan to appeal.

"White privilege" denotes the array of advantages the Clintons have cultivated over years in public office. The gold-plated, endless perks of "white privilege" include:

<><> their personal massive wealth in the $2 billion range....

<><> ownership of multiple homes in posh enclaves....

<><> unknown secret offshore bank accounts...

<><> unrevealed investment profits...

<><> the chain of high public offices they've held....

<><> privileged friends in high places....

<><> global connections....

<><> constant affirmations of their own worth....

<><> greater social status...

<><> the expansive freedoms wealth and connections provide...

<><> unlimited access to the press to speak freely.....

<><> their memoirs made millions....

<><> Dec 2000 book deal $8 million; 2014 book deal $14 mill....

<><> three tax-exempt Clinton family foundations worth hundreds of millions....

<><> Clinton foundation "endowment" skyrockets to $200 million overnight....

<><> Hillary's $200,000 speeches.......

<><> Bill's tax-paid cushy pensions/benefits....

<><> tax-paid Clinton Library (Hollywood honey Sultan of Brunei a donor).....

<><> Chelsea's paid-for $10 million uber-condo.

2016 Hillary was relying on the "income equality" bugaboo to hoist herself into office......as good a definition of "white privilege" as any. The Clintons strategy is to label others as "different" while presenting themselves as "normal."

The Clinton "normal" is couple billion dollars laying around without having a real job. The Never-Enough Clintons had planned to run a populist campaign, critical of the Wall Street types”....that's after the world was informed that speaker Hillary was pocketing $200,000 a throw from Goldman Sachs.....and other corporate giants.

The Clintons went from "dead broke" to multi-billionaires in an astonishing short period of time----without holding jobs The greedy, mega-wealthy Clintons have money pouring in from everywhere without lifting a finger...said to be worth couple BILLION dollars.

Never-enough Bill/Hillary look to cash in w/ another go-round in the White House. The Clintons owe bigtime......money is pouring into their three tax-exempt foundations......and these donors expect payback.

14 posted on 08/15/2014 5:48:04 AM PDT by Liz
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To: Opinionated Blowhard

RE: Poor Hillary. Always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

Please, let it stay that way...

And don’t replace her with Fauxcahontas.


15 posted on 08/15/2014 5:48:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: austinaero

careful what you wish for... It’s better she implodes now in my opinion.

I do not want her as the nominee. We can beat ANY other candidate they put up, because they honestly have no one else.


16 posted on 08/15/2014 5:52:08 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: ReaganÃœberAlles

I tend to agree she may not run. She wants to, but she won’t unless she can be absolutely certain she will win.
She will not allow herself to known in history as the first woman to run and lose. She is far too narcissistic to allow that. She would rather live with the fiction that her health kept her from assured victory.


17 posted on 08/15/2014 5:53:09 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: SeekAndFind

She gets uglier by the minute, inside and out. Not a good strategy for a potential presidential candidate.


18 posted on 08/15/2014 5:53:39 AM PDT by ReaganÜberAlles (To be a Liberal is to be anti-American, by definition.)
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To: ops33

they dont, but they are desperate to get another baby killer nominated no matter what to stack the supreme court.


19 posted on 08/15/2014 5:55:52 AM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I think Princess Lieawatha is the certain nominee and, depending on what the Republicans do, may well be the next President.


20 posted on 08/15/2014 6:07:12 AM PDT by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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