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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The View women are the worst...
Hillary is the Ds Romney. The D way left base hates her guts, much like the R conservatives did not like Romney. I have leftist acquaintances that hate Hillary as much as I do. They are all in on Bernie.
I like Cruz, but I think he will have a tougher race against Hillary. He is not as well known, and the media will pound the crap out of him. Trump has been pounded, and still sitting there with an upraised middle finger.
I don't think Trump is hated by the mass D constituency. The celebrity appeals to the LIV, but on a practical level, I think people see him as a job creator. If he can even pull 20% of those minority groups that the Ds count on, it will be landslide city.
"I also want to add the Clintons are dead broke."
The phony 'war on women' along with the 'shut down government' sludge will doom him. None of that works with Trump. Folks need to really ask themselves if they want to win, and stop Hillary, or do they want to vote for Cruz because they think it puts them in better with God.
I saw that mayor... totally disgusting...
Just one man’s opinion....If you are planning to vote for Ted Cruz or Rand Paul...IMHO....you are throwing your vote and your country’s future away!!! Neither Ted Cruze, good consrvative, and fine man that he is, or Rand Paul has any chance whatsoever of defeating whoever the Democrat nominee for POTUS is!!! Neither of them can get near the amount of crossover votes required to gain POTUS victory.
Only Donald Trump can do that......period!!! If you cannot be real and truthful enough to figure that out...then just go out and vote for these two guys and, watch them go down to defeat, as Karl Rove, John McCain, Mitt Romney, & The Republican Establishment RINOs, etc. tear them down. Every Evangilcal voter in Iowa is simply throwing their vote away on a lost cause!!!
Only Donald Trump can easily beat Hillary Clinton or any Democrat. Trump will garner votes from all sides of the political spectrum!!! No other Republican can even come close. Remember, folks....this is your last shot to save the American Republic!!! Think wisely before throwing your vote away and your country with it!!! Four more, or, eight more years of Democrat POTUS will destroy , our once great country!!! Your choice!!! Your vote this year will be the most important vote you ever cast in your lifetime!!! I’ll be voting for Donald Trump!!!! The story is clearly on the wall for all Americans to see and understand!!!
Very good news. GO TRUMP GO
Headline on Drudge is that 20 per cent of Democrats have already decided to come over and support Trump. Look for that number to grow, especially among Blacks and Hispanics, because Trump has special appeal to them. For once, a politician is not patronizing those two groups.
A political earthquake is taking shape - that of which we have never before seen.
What’s happening is that Fox is waking up to the very real possibility of Trump being the nominee, so they’re scaling back the “Trump can’t win” propaganda in preparation for the general.
Oh, I bet they are. I wish they would call me. : )
And Trump's numbers, against Hillary or any other Dem, will only keep on getting better and better!
I'm really getting a sense they are going to take her out with an indictment..call me crazy
Absolutely correct, this is blowing up fast in the democrats face. At this rate they will be compelled to replace Hillary.
It's dawning on the rats and the GOPe that Hillary could blow the election, handing the White House to the first anti-globalist since... I don't know when.
With him beating her already, the rats will consider dumping her. Bernie? Biden? Kerry?
She's a stinking corpse politically, not just because of Trump's campaign but also her non-Bill scandals and 'Does it really matter?' crack about Bengahzi. Those two prongs are politically lethal.
One or two more of these Muslim terrorist events virtually guarantees Trump will be elected. Not only is Hillary not trusted, but she's got Obama, his policies, his lies, and his increasingly delusional rhetoric wrapped around her like a boat anchor.
And it's only going to get worse for her, because we ain't seen nuttin yet from Obama: he's going to do his best to take this country down with him during the next year with a scorched Earth policy that's going to make Sherman's march to the sea look like a cakewalk.
Maybe Obama's greatest legacy will be that he single-handedly destroyed the democrat party by showing us who they really are.
Only Donald Trump can easily beat Hillary Clinton or any Democrat. Trump will garner votes from all sides of the political spectrum!!! No other Republican can even come close. Remember, folks....this is your last shot to save the American Republic!!! Think wisely before throwing your vote away and your country with it!!! Four more, or, eight more years of Democrat POTUS will destroy , our once great country!!! Your choice!!! Your vote this year will be the most important vote you ever cast in your lifetime!!! I'll be voting for Donald Trump!!!! The story is clearly on the wall for all Americans to see and understand!!!
A political earthquake is taking shape - that of which we have never before seen.
There's a tsunami beneath the feet of Establishment Washington and Media.
Amen!!
Trumpnami is coming!!
Thanks for the ping :)
Wow, I did not see this coming. Maybe a majority of the people are not as stupid as I thought.
Cruz can't be doing better against Hillary. That part of the poll, toss it. Toss the RCP Cruz-beats-Hillary-by-a-larger-margin stuff too.
Yeah funny how the Trumpster meme is always "Cruz can't beat Hillary" and yet poll after poll shows him doing better against Hillary than Trump.
That's because right now Cruz v. Clinton is Republican no one has heard of against ugly witch no one likes. Give the media nine months to define Cruz as the Spanish Inquisition and see how he does.
Oh no the MSM is going to try and define our guy. Let's go into the fetal position and let them. Tears and fears are what we are about. Waaaaaah!
Trump needs to win by a landslide to keep Hillary (if she’s not in jail) from pulling an Al Gore.
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