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The year of the hated: Clinton and Trump, two intensely disliked candidates, begin their face-off
Washington Post ^ | May 8, 2016 | David Weigel

Posted on 05/08/2016 10:31:05 PM PDT by Innovative

In the end, it was the voters of Indiana last week who effectively gave the country the outcome that had loomed for months. The 2016 election is likely to pit Hillary Clinton, who is disliked by a majority of voters, against Donald Trump, disliked by a greater majority of voters.

If the rise of Trump has no obvious precedent, neither does an election like this. Clinton, whose buoyant favorable ratings in the State Department convinced some Democrats that she could win easily, is now viewed as unfavorably as George W. Bush was in his close 2004 reelection bid. Trump is even less liked, with negative ratings among nonwhite voters not seen since the 1964 campaign of Barry Goldwater.

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I think this article is just plain ridiculous and wrong.

If Trump had as high negatives as the MSM claims he has, he wouldn't have gotten as many votes as he has, even among Republicans.

In the general election he will also get Dem and Independents voting for him, to "Make America Great Again".

1 posted on 05/08/2016 10:31:06 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: Innovative

This is a speech during the primaries.

2 posted on 05/08/2016 10:34:41 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Innovative

The anti-American crowd hates Trump. They are also the only ones who will vote for Hillary.


3 posted on 05/08/2016 10:36:47 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Innovative

I remember the first time I heard this birdcage liner of a newspaper called the “Washington Compost.” It was LTC Oliver North.


4 posted on 05/08/2016 10:37:59 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Innovative

It’s the WaPo. Leftist crap articles like this is what they do.


5 posted on 05/08/2016 10:38:49 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Innovative

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright - Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson

6 posted on 05/08/2016 10:44:35 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: Vince Ferrer

If Trump has 40 million supporters, that’s still over 260 million who don’t support him.

Not saying that he’s that unpopular, but it doesn’t take a very high percentage of the population to fill an arena.


7 posted on 05/08/2016 10:45:14 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Innovative

I find Trump very likable in a number of different ways.

And I was a person who could not stand him and had zero respect for him when he announced.

Things change, perceptions are fluid. He won me over.


8 posted on 05/08/2016 10:46:14 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: Innovative

Hillary has the negatives, not Trump. They just say he has negatives to make him seem equal to Hillary. But it’s bunk.


9 posted on 05/08/2016 10:50:05 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: dfwgator

Good point, but has anyone compared Trump’s audiences to Clinton’s? That would give an indicator of relative popularity. Bernie can fill arenas, but Hillary doesn’t seem to be able to fill that kind of venue. In the end it doesn’t matter the number of registered voters in each party, or the answers to poll questions. It only matters who goes out and votes. The 200 million who don’t vote don’t count. While it is only anecdotal, rally attendance is pretty consistent around the country and shows a big enthusiasm gap for Trump over Hillary.


10 posted on 05/08/2016 10:54:11 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Innovative

Yes they’re both hated.

Trump hated mostly be the left, and some on the right.
Hillary hated by the right, and some on the left.

Where’s the love?


11 posted on 05/08/2016 11:05:08 PM PDT by period end of story (Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
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Media just repeats lies over and over until they become the truth. Don’t think it will work with Trump. The more I listen to him—esp. when he was on Oprah 25 years ago, the more I admire and like him and he is still saying the same things.

Nothing is worse than that evil, Marxist, male-hating Hillary Clinton. She is pure evil and a spawn of the devil.


12 posted on 05/08/2016 11:05:41 PM PDT by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: Innovative
David Weigel the lib con man who was fired for previous scams is still employed ?
This creep is beyond damaged goods but the left wing media will still keep a good documented liar on the payroll ,
13 posted on 05/08/2016 11:14:49 PM PDT by ncalburt
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David Weigelmwas the Left wing hack who was hired to write right side blog at the Compost !
He wax fired when caught mocking the GOP in private

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062504413.html

And then it tunes put he was one of the DC Obama journalists who secretly conspired to get Obama elected by manipulating the new cycle.
This far left con man is pack at the Compost !
Wow.

14 posted on 05/08/2016 11:24:25 PM PDT by ncalburt
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To: chris37; shibumi; mkjessup
:)


15 posted on 05/08/2016 11:24:38 PM PDT by Salamander (We're pain, we're steel, a plot of knives...)
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To: Innovative

Trump will get moire likeable when scrutinized to those who dislike him now. Hillary, not so much.


16 posted on 05/08/2016 11:33:13 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2016)
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Dare I say-—Landslide?


17 posted on 05/08/2016 11:37:55 PM PDT by period end of story (Give me a firm spot, and I will move the world.)
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To: BenLurkin

I imagine Hillary will talk to some of her ole friends at NSA to spy on Trump’s cellphone conversations. If I were him I’d have a different person buy a different cellphone every day just to drive them crazy. He can afford it. All of them throwaway phones. You’ll see her hair turn gray(er) in real-time.


18 posted on 05/08/2016 11:41:13 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Salamander

19 posted on 05/08/2016 11:43:59 PM PDT by chris37 (heartless)
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To: period end of story

I think so. A winning message is a winning message.


20 posted on 05/08/2016 11:47:42 PM PDT by toddausauras (Trump 2016)
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