Posted on 01/08/2016 10:18:11 PM PST by GonzoII
A new FoxNews poll shows GOP frontrunner Donald Trump edging Hillary Clinton in a general election match-up. A December poll from Fox showed Hillary ahead of Trump by 11 points. This latest poll, however, has Trump beating Clinton by 3 points, 47-44 percent.
Since early December, Trump has been engulfed in media controversies surrounding his proposal to temporarily ban Muslim immigrants and his rhetoric confronting Hillary about President Bill Clinton's salacious past and allegations of sexual misconduct with women. In that time, a potential general election match-up against Hillary has swung 14 points in Trump's favor.
At the beginning of summer, Hillary led Trump by 17 points in an earlier Fox poll. Hillary is plagued by two significant challenges. Voter approval of Barack Obama is only 42 percent, while 53 percent disapprove of his job performance. Obama's approval numbers are near the historic lows of his presidency.
Worse, however, are Obama's marks on a number of important issues. In fact, on every issue tested, whether improving health care or containing ISIS, a strong majority of voters believe Obama will be remembered more for his failures than successes.
Hillary's challenge isn't just Obama's unpopularity, however. She receives the lowest marks of any candidate running for president on being honest and trustworthy. Only 36 percent of voters believe Hillary is honest. A staggering 62 percent, almost two-thirds, say she is not trustworthy.
A candidate viewed as dishonest seeking to succeed an increasingly unpopular president itself presents a formidable challenge. The challenge is perhaps harder for Hillary, given the Clintons' long record with voters. Almost half of voters, 46 percent, say Bill Clinton's sex scandals have hurt Hillary's campaign. Only 29 percent of voters say the sex scandals won't make a difference in her campaign.
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Yeah!
No one thinks of the ramifications for his campaign! If he’s ahead in the polls, he might win. Winning kills the campaign!
He’d have to wait 4 years to campaign again.
Real Clear Politics has Cruz at 46.3% to Clinton 44.5%. See the breakdown here:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_cruz_vs_clinton-4034.html
Real Clear Politics has Trump at 42.6% to Clinton 44.6%. The Fox poll shows Trump at 47% to Clinton 44%. See the breakdown here:
This tells me Clinton is vulnerable to the top Republican contenders.
Another GREAT series!!
Thank you!!
Ted Cruz is beating Hilary Clinton by 7% in the same poll. Further, Trump is still losing to Hilary Clinton in the RCP average while Ted Cruz is beating Hilary Clinton in the RCP average.
As before Ted Cruz is doing much better against Hilary Clinton in head to heads than Trump is.
Cruz and Rubio beat Hillary by more—6 and 7 points respectively versus 3 points. But Breitbart doesn’t mention that.
Thanks for that. It was laugh out loud funny. You are just lucky I did not have any coffee in my mouth or you would have owed me a new keyboard.
Absolutely correct, this is blowing up fast in the democrats face. At this rate they will be compelled to replace Hillary.
Historically, even Ronald Reagan only showed 30% support about this time in the electoral destruction of rat jimmah cattah.
To see the polls tip this way so early is a harbinger of doom to the left.
Or the 11-point Hillary lead was a bogus outlier. Sine the PREVIOUS Fox poll (as I recall) had Trump narrowly up, this one is more in line with that.
Probably actually more like a 6% gap...
Yeah, but how soon until Hillary’s arrested and Trump has to run against Bernie?
I’d like to break that white board over Rove’s fat head.
me too...
we need to easy off her a bit before destroying her!
Otherwise Biden might jump back into the race and we might have issues.
But Rove says he can’t beat Hillary.
Last night on Hannity the Trump hater Jonah Goldberg said Trump reminded him of a monkey running around at NASA. This moron still gives Trump no credit for anything. Goldberg refuses to believe anyone could be stupid enough to vote for Trump.
Cruz, who I like, has zero ability to get cross-over votes. He would stand no chance at beating Clinton. For what it’s worth, that’s my opinion.
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