Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Democrats wonder and worry: Why isn’t Clinton far ahead of Trump?
Washington Post ^ | September 9, 2016 | Anne Gearan, Jenna Johnson and John Wagner

Posted on 09/10/2016 5:44:04 AM PDT by tired&retired

NEW YORK — With Election Day less than two months away, Democrats are increasingly worried that Hillary Clinton has not built a formidable lead against Donald Trump despite his historic weaknesses as a national party candidate.

Even the Democratic nominee’s advisers acknowledge that she must make changes, and quickly. Clinton leads Trump by three percentage points, having fallen from her high of nine points in August, according to the latest RealClearPolitics average. That tightening has frustrated many Clinton allies and operatives, who are astonished that she isn’t running away with this race, given Trump’s deep unpopularity and his continuing stream of controversial comments.

“Generally, I’m concerned, frankly,” said former Democratic Senate leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.). “It still looks positive, and I think if you look at the swing states and where she is right now, she’s got a lead. But it’s certainly not in the bag. We have two months to go, and I think it’s going to be a competitive race all the way through. I would say she’s got at least a 60 percent chance of winning.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: contemptforpublic; hillary; inhiding; invisible; post; washington
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-40 last
To: tired&retired

Hopefully someone will be monitoring signals to her earbud during the debates.

Reply

I would find it humorous if someone intercepts that signal, even replaces it such that she at some point needs to pull it out of her ear mid-debate!


21 posted on 09/10/2016 6:14:13 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 20 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

One of the best posts.... I’m impressed with the level of thought going into many of these posts.

This is not about us not welcoming a balanced, fair and lawful immigration system. This is about Democrats ignoring and abusing immigration and border laws, and doing nothing about illegals flooding our country.

It’s about a lawless, unpatriotic, narcissistic, Muslim sympathizing President Obama.

It’s about admitting, year after year, only Muslim and dark skinned immigrants from 3rd world countries.

It’s about the war on Christianity.

It’s about a total abuse of our benefit system, our money handed out by The Fed with no checks and balances.

It’s about the Democrats cheating and lying to let these illegals and felons vote to cancel out the law abiding citizen’s votes.

It’s about Democrats pandering to and only caring about thugs, law breakers, illegals, Muslims, minority groups, and social PC Justice.

It’s about ignoring and abusing the middle class and blue collar workers for decades.

It’s about the Democrats trying to water down, ignore, or change the United States Constitution.

It’s about a lying, biased Main stream media.

It’s about so many other important things, but now we have a voice. We will be heard in November. We will vote for Trump, and we will take our country back again and make it great again. You can count on it.


22 posted on 09/10/2016 6:18:07 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 21 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

Here are Hillary’s felonies
1.) U.S. Code § 798 – Disclosure of classified information
2.) U.S. Code § 1924 – Unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or material
3.) U.S. Code § 2071(b) — Concealment, removal, or mutilation generally
4.) U.S. Code § 641 – Public money, property or records
5.) U.S. Code § 1505 – Obstruction of proceedings before departments, agencies, and committees
6.) U.S. Code § 1519 — Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in federal investigations
7.) U.S. Code § 1031 — Fraud against the United States
8.) U.S. Code § 1343 – Fraud by wire, radio or television
9.) U.S. Code § 1346 — Definition of “scheme or artifice to defraud”
10. U.S. Code § 371 – Conspiracy to defraud the United States
11.) U.S. Code § 371 – Conspiracy to commit a federal offense


23 posted on 09/10/2016 6:28:08 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

10,387 Comments so far and the majority are pro Trump.

This on a liberal rag that supports Hillary. Keeps in mind, every poster must register prior to making any posts.

Worthy of a popcorn award.


24 posted on 09/10/2016 6:34:15 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Hotlanta Mike
If you put lipstick on a pig, is it still a pig?

And most of us believe that a pig looks good when it is cured, cooked and carved.

25 posted on 09/10/2016 6:40:50 AM PDT by AndyJackson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

When it gets to zero, let’s all gather at CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, NPR, MSNBC, LAT, WP, COMCAST, FOX and any other media I’ve forgot, carefully remove all the people and burn the buildings to the ground. This, because TRULY these media are a bigger enemy of the people than ISIS, RADICAL Islam, China, Hitler, Tojo or Mussolini.


26 posted on 09/10/2016 6:41:38 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

Interesting post:

This is no longer “conspiracy theory” it’s a public fact: US military operation is currently being conducted to manipulate US social media.
.
The US military has developed software that will let it *secretly* manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread its propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an “online persona management service” that will allow each chosen US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based around the world. The project has been likened by web experts to China’s attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet.

Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, change the narrative, crowd out unwelcome opinions, and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives.

The discovery that the US military is developing false online personalities – known to users of social media as “sock puppets” – could also encourage other governments, private companies and non-government organizations to do the same. The Centcom contract stipulates that each fake online persona must have a convincing background, history and supporting details, and that up to 50 US-based controllers should be able to operate false identities from their workstations “without fear of being discovered by sophisticated adversaries”.

Centcom spokesman Commander Bill Speaks said: “The technology supports classified blogging activities on foreign-language websites to enable Centcom to counter violent extremist and enemy propaganda outside the US.” Google it.


27 posted on 09/10/2016 6:51:05 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

Google it... So I did:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-operation-social-networks

Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media
Military’s ‘sock puppet’ software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda


28 posted on 09/10/2016 6:55:19 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

List of Hillary’s lies... per Washington Post website (too funny)

1. My husband is not a sexual predator and I don’t support his abuse of women.

2. Bill and I have a normal marriage, and any assertions that by defending him against allegations of aberrant sexual behavior I enable him to continue to prey upon vulnerable women are false.

3. Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey and all the others who have claimed to have had sex, been sexually harassed, assaulted or raped by Bill Clinton are just white trash publicity seekers.

4. Bill did not have sex with Monica Lewinsky; allegations that he did are part of a vast right wing conspiracy.

5. I was shocked to discover that Bill had had sex with Monica Lewinsky, but I forgave him because I love him and he had never done anything like that before and he hasn’t since.

6. I do not have a vicious temper and reports that my ripping into Vince Foster on the morning he committed suicide may have driven him over the edge are unfounded.

7. I never have had temper tantrums or exhibited violent behavior like throwing ashtrays or lamps when I found out about something I didn’t like or couldn’t get my own way.

8. Reports that I told White House staff and Secret Service agents to step into a closet or hide behind a curtain because I didn’t want to have to see them when I walked down the halls are simply stories made up by an unscrupulous reporter.

9. Had Hillary Care been implemented it would have provided high quality affordable health care to all Americans while preserving their freedom to choose their doctors and their plans.

10. I had no idea where the Rose Law firm billing records were.

11. The Whitewater land deal was totally above board and there was nothing illegal or even unethical about it.

12. When I said I came under sniper fire when I landed in Sarajevo I wasn’t lying.


29 posted on 09/10/2016 6:58:55 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

I could feel sorry for her if she weren’t so evil. Coughing is a big problem for those who are somewhat incontinent. Trump may need some nursing home spray for the debates. She would be better off with one of those bags. They will never send her to the Big House.


30 posted on 09/10/2016 7:01:46 AM PDT by RightLady (God Bless the USA)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

I think she’s been wearing a diaper since that dem debate when they all had to wait for her to use the bathroom.

I saw a u tube video which claims she has vascular dementia due to the blood clot several years ago. Incontinence is one of the symptoms.


31 posted on 09/10/2016 7:48:06 AM PDT by Ceebass
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

DEPLORABLE!


32 posted on 09/10/2016 7:55:41 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Hotlanta Mike
They wonder "why"? Because she is DEPLORABLE!!!
33 posted on 09/10/2016 8:13:52 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

12,254 Comments to the Washington Post article now... 11:42 am Eastern time


34 posted on 09/10/2016 8:40:19 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

The writer is behind on the news. Trump is now more popular than Hillary; or to put it another way, he is less unpopular than Hillary.


35 posted on 09/10/2016 8:44:01 AM PDT by Gumdrop
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

Funny comment... Time for Hillary to top it with all the “Finger Guns” during her speeches.

For an anti gun woman, she sure uses a lot of “Finger Guns.”

It was funny the other day as I saw her use the finger gun with no words as she forgot what she was going to say...

Kind of reminded me of a Village People dance move!


36 posted on 09/10/2016 8:48:04 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Gumdrop

“or to put it another way, he is less unpopular than Hillary.”

What ever works as long as he is ahead and wins in the end. I don’t care if Trump is the least unpopular candidate.


37 posted on 09/10/2016 8:50:14 AM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 35 | View Replies]

To: All
THE MASTER RACE SPEAKS TO LOWLY AMERICANS:

Democrat candidate Hillary Clinton:
"Americans are a basket of intolorables."

Democrat president Barack Obama:
"Americans are lazy."

Ex-president Bill Clinton
"Americans cant understand the complexity of govt emails."

Democrat factotum Jonathan Gruber:
"Passage of Obamacare depended on the stupidity of Americans."

Ex-Democrat House leader Nancy Pelosi:
"Americans cant know whats in Obamacare til we pass it."

Ex-Democrat US Senator Mary Landrieu
"I have to talk down to my constituents b/c they don't understand Washington politics."

38 posted on 09/10/2016 10:24:46 AM PDT by Liz (SAFE PLACE? liberal's mind. Nothing's there. Nothing penetrates it.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

Comment 13,847... when the average number of posts is around 300 for a Washington Post article

These high-priced spreads called consultants just don’t get it. The problem isn’t one of tactics, fundraising, or avoiding the media. The problem is Clinton herself.
The reason why Trump is gaining supporters, many of whom have not readily admitted to supporting him, is because he’s not her.

This country doesn’t want or need an Obama Third Term. Clinton cannot close this deal. Recent polling in North Carolina that shows Trump up also shows Obama’s unfavorable rating high, and get this, Clinton’s higher than Trump’s!
Trump’s not going to win on issues, because he knows all the right things to say, or because he knows all the government programs, or has 30 years of government experience. He’s going to win because he’s not her. And all the speeches about being a warm Mommy is not going to change it.


39 posted on 09/10/2016 2:35:48 PM PDT by tired&retired (Blessings)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: tired&retired

40 posted on 09/10/2016 3:10:39 PM PDT by exit82 (Road Runner sez:" Let's Make America Beeping Great Again! Beep! Beep!")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-40 last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson