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There's been a sudden turnaround in how voters view Hillary Clinton's handling of Benghazi
Business Insider ^ | 11/03/2015 | Maxwell Tani

Posted on 11/03/2015 12:44:08 PM PST by SeekAndFind

Former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's marathon testimony in front of the US House Select Committee on Benghazi appears to have worked in her political favor.

According to a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Tuesday, the number of Americans who remained unsatisfied with the Democratic presidential front-runner's handling of the 2012 terrorist attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Libya, which left four Americans dead, has dropped significantly.

The poll found that 38% of Americans were unsatisfied with Clinton's answers to questions about the attack, down from 44% who were unsatisfied before her 11-hour testimony in Congress last month.

Among "swing" voters, according to NBC, the percentage who said that they are not satisfied with her handling of the issue plunged from 84% at the beginning of October to 40% now. Just 23%, however, said they are satisfied.

Among Democratic primary voters, those numbers were even better for Clinton.

The poll showed that 72% of likely Democratic primary voters were satisfied with Clinton's answers on the subject, compared to just 58% who previously said they were satisfied before her testimony.

Though Republicans maintain that the ongoing investigation into Clinton's role in the controversy are unrelated to her bid for the presidency, the ranking Republican members of the committee have found themselves on the defensive following a series of gaffes from high-profile members that cast the numerous investigations in a political light.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; benghazi; benghazicoverup; clinton; demagogicparty; hillary; hillary2016; hillarybenghazi; hillarybenghazipoll; maxwelltani; memebuilding; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; soshillary
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To: Don Corleone

Trust nothing in the media about Hillary Clinton when it runs counter to logic and common sense.

She is an admitted liar, unfit to be president.

The media is being controlled.


41 posted on 11/03/2015 1:53:42 PM PST by Titus-Maximus (It doesn't matter who votes for whom, it only matters who counts the votes - Joe Stalin)
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To: SeekAndFind

Of course the idiot American population doesn’t care that four random Americans were offered as sacrifices to the Muslims. There’s welfare to collect, weed to smoke, and MTV/rap music to consume.


42 posted on 11/03/2015 1:54:39 PM PST by Objective Scrutator (All liberals are criminals, and all criminals are liberals)
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To: SeekAndFind

This reminds me of the Clarence Thomas hearings. At the time, people believed Thomas. But after a year of hammering by the liberal media, more people believed Anita Hill.

It is so depressing how the American people 1) can’t think critically and 2) forget the facts when brainwashed by the mass media.

I try to teach critical thinking, but I am only a drop in the bucket....


43 posted on 11/03/2015 2:06:26 PM PST by Republicanprofessor
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To: annieokie; penelopesire; maggief; Protect the Bill of Rights; thouworm; SE Mom; Nachum; onyx; ...

Benghazi ping.

Let Republicanprofessor know if you want on or off this ping list.


44 posted on 11/03/2015 2:07:38 PM PST by Republicanprofessor
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Exactly...Who cares? Just gimme the free stuff!


45 posted on 11/03/2015 2:07:51 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: SeekAndFind

Mr Gowdy and Co better get the truth out before the primary. Well, either them or bernie.


46 posted on 11/03/2015 2:09:40 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: Objective Scrutator
Of course the idiot American population doesn’t care that four random Americans were offered as sacrifices to the Muslims. There’s welfare to collect, weed to smoke, and MTV/rap music to consume.

Unfortunately, I have to agree. I still remember that idiot woman, who said when Nobama was elected, she said I won't have to worry about putting gas in my car anymore. That is the lunacy we are up against. The crimes that the Hildebeast has committed, are career enhancers, for her coronation as the next POTUS. It is disgusting.

47 posted on 11/03/2015 2:18:15 PM PST by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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To: Gen.Blather
“The typical voter has the attention span of a gerbil.."

Gerbils are smarter than the average clinton supporter.


48 posted on 11/03/2015 2:45:45 PM PST by clearcarbon
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To: SeekAndFind

I think it will take something of the order of $100 million in campaign ads to reverse this. That’s a lot of money and I could be off by 10% or so but it will be spent and it will work.

I suspect that very few people actually watched the hearings so they are just responding to the MSM Party-Line: SHE DID GREAT. SHE PUT THIS BEHIND HER.

Nice Party-Line but it won’t pass the smell test. The Pubbies just have to lay out the facts. Over and over and over and over. It will sink in.


49 posted on 11/03/2015 3:00:46 PM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: SeekAndFind

Hillary lied and people died. That’s the Benghazi story. Who wants such a horrid piece of work as Commander in Chief?

She is walking death to America.


50 posted on 11/03/2015 3:24:12 PM PST by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: blueunicorn6

[[She failed to plan.
She failed to organize.
She failed to lead.
She failed to control (evaluate and adjust).

She then lied to try and protect herself.

She is a miserable failure who shouldn’t be trusted with the responsibility of selling cookies.]]

This sums up her whole career really, and the people still think she is a ‘leader’?

What has she done except get 4 Americans killed? What has she accomplished?

She’s almost as incompetent a leader for this country as our current dear leader is- who by the way also had a very dismal record before becoming president, yet America voted not once but twice


51 posted on 11/03/2015 4:01:15 PM PST by Bob434
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To: All
Hillary Clinton is a liar. We all know it.

I can't believe and shake my head how she keeps up with the lie being such the bad actress she is.
52 posted on 11/03/2015 4:24:23 PM PST by ssfromla
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To: SeekAndFind
PURE BULL$HIT

She's "damaged goods" and you'll see a hundred of these type stories attempting to restore her so called image.

53 posted on 11/03/2015 4:46:22 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: SeekAndFind
Propaganda by the MSN is effective
54 posted on 11/03/2015 6:48:20 PM PST by zeugma (Teach your child a love for motorcycles, and he'll never have money for drugs.)
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To: zeugma
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55 posted on 11/03/2015 6:56:38 PM PST by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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