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As Hillary! Craters, Democrats Search for Panic Button
PJ Tatler ^ | July 25, 2015 | Michael Walsh

Posted on 07/25/2015 4:20:16 PM PDT by Kaslin

Toast

It’s no longer a question of whether Hillary! Clinton will be the Democratic nominee for president in 2016; it’s only a question of when she will drop out of the race rather than face humiliation a second time:

Democrats are seeing warning signs after a new poll showed Hillary Clinton losing three swing states and deep in negative territory on questions of character. One Democratic strategist who spoke on condition of anonymity described the poll results as “the canary in the coal mine.

The poll, from Quinnipiac University, surveyed voters in Colorado, Iowa and Virginia. President Obama won all three states in both of his presidential election victories, but they went for former President George W. Bush almost as uniformly in 2004 and 2000. When the pollsters tested Clinton against leading Republican contenders Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, she lost every state to every opponent.

Among the most alarming findings, from a Democratic perspective, was the indication that Clinton, widely considered the party’s front-runner, would lose Colorado by 9 points to Walker and would lose by at least 6 points to any of the three candidates in Iowa. Hank Sheinkopf, a New York-based Democratic consultant who has worked with Clinton in the past but is not involved with her current campaign, described the findings as “absolutely dangerous” for the party.

Losing a state like Colorado by nine points to Scott Walker (who will be the GOP standard-bearer in 2016) would mean an electoral disaster for the Democrats is in the offing. If it’s not close in Colorado or Iowa, it means the Democrats would likely lose every swing state, including Walker’s own Wisconsin, and be confined to their electoral ghettos in New England and on the West Coast.

But it is not just the head-to-head match-ups where Clinton struggles. Other findings are also poor for her, including on the question of whether voters trust her. Those results seem ominous given that the former first lady has been in the public eye for around a quarter-century, making impressions of her more difficult to change. She has also struggled on questions of honesty before.

The Quinnipiac poll showed Coloradans asserting by an almost 2-1 margin that Clinton was not honest or trustworthy: 62 percent said she was not, whereas only 34 percent she was. The findings were not much better in either Iowa or Virginia. Respondents distrusted Clinton 59 percent to 33 percent in the former, and 55 percent to 39 percent in latter.

Crazy as it seemed only a couple of months ago, look for both Al Gore and John Kerry to start testing the waters by the fall. Now, Democrats are running around with their hair on fire.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Arkansas; US: New York; US: Texas; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: 2016election; clinton; dingdong; election2016; hillary2016; hillaryclinton; hitlery; newyork; scottwalker; tedcruz; texas; trump; wisconsin
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To: Kaslin

Hillary, the human RESET button.


21 posted on 07/25/2015 4:45:49 PM PDT by BuddhaBrown (Path to enlightenment: Four right turns, then go straight until you see the Light!)
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To: Fungi

And I hope Bill’s home life is Hell on Earth because of it.


22 posted on 07/25/2015 4:46:33 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Slick willies favorite phrase during his campaign was “it's time for a change.” That should be the catch phrase for any and all Republican contenders. For if we have four more years of the same with Hildabeast, the false Indian, or the outright socialist Sanders, the country is over and knocks in the dead of night will be coming to our doors.
23 posted on 07/25/2015 4:47:48 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Kaslin

“...Scott Walker (who will be the GOP standard-bearer in 2016)”

LOL. Trump just outed him on COMMON CORE today. He’s done.


24 posted on 07/25/2015 4:52:45 PM PDT by BobL (REPUBLICANS - Fight for the WHITE VOTE...and you will win (see my 'profile' page))
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To: marron

FBI files will do that to ya...


25 posted on 07/25/2015 4:53:04 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Kaslin

Hillaryous! Hurry, someone get the jumper cables.


26 posted on 07/25/2015 4:55:24 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: Kaslin
Re: “the canary in the coal mine.”

I think Hillary can win the nomination and the general election if SHE spends the next 15 months in a coal mine.

The polls on Colorado and Iowa are not serious.

In Iowa, in 2012, 50% of white voters voted to REELECT Obama.

In Colorado, in 2012, 44% of white voters voted to REELECT Obama. 22% of voters in Colorado were non-white. Almost 80% of them voted to REELECT Obama.

Bottom line....

It doesn't matter who the Democrats nominate.

If they can motivate their core voting groups to go to the polls, the Democrats have enough LEGAL voters to easily win the Electoral College.

27 posted on 07/25/2015 4:57:27 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: justa-hairyape
Thank god. Put her in jail. Sell her assets. Give the proceeds to families of US personal killed over seas.

Good idea, hairyape.

28 posted on 07/25/2015 4:58:21 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: UCANSEE2

Why hasn’t the Chicago Mob fired up the Warren bandwagon?
I’m certain she could defeat Hillary.
At this point in 2007, Caliph Baraq had been campaigning for 6 months already.


29 posted on 07/25/2015 4:58:27 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: ripley

You have to give Bernie credit for more honesty than most Dems (small compliment, LOL)


30 posted on 07/25/2015 4:59:48 PM PDT by nascarnation (Impeach, convict, deport)
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To: Kaslin
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31 posted on 07/25/2015 5:01:13 PM PDT by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: gundog
"And I hope Bill’s home life is Hell on Earth because of it."

I'll bet they don't even acknowledge each others existence when they cross paths in the mansion.

Unless there's a camera around.

32 posted on 07/25/2015 5:05:33 PM PDT by SnuffaBolshevik (Enter something.)
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To: Fungi

Under the fingernails and toenails too.


33 posted on 07/25/2015 5:06:40 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance.)
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To: Kaslin

It will be fun to watch the old hag cackle as she melts down into a pool of slush.


34 posted on 07/25/2015 5:07:03 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

We need 3 C’s.

Catastrophic Clinton Collapse is good

Colossal Clinton Collapse also good.

Corrupt Catatonic Clinton Collapses Catastrophically would be even nicer.


35 posted on 07/25/2015 5:09:45 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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To: Libloather

you, Hillary!!!
36 posted on 07/25/2015 5:09:49 PM PDT by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: SnuffaBolshevik
I'll bet they don't even acknowledge each others existence when they cross paths in the mansion.

Hillary lives in her multi-million dollar Washington, DC house and Bill claims their Chappaqua, NY digs as his residence.

No one really knows where he sleeps.


37 posted on 07/25/2015 5:20:00 PM PDT by Iron Munro (We may be paranoid but that doesn't mean they aren't really after us)
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To: Fungi

Nor should she be president.


38 posted on 07/25/2015 5:23:22 PM PDT by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in Faith, and politics.)
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To: gundog

He has no home life. I doubt the two have slept in the same bed since who knows when. His time is spent on private planes flying to hedonistic affairs across the globe. These people are pure evil.


39 posted on 07/25/2015 5:23:34 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: marron

“...no reason at all anyone would ever want to vote for her...”

Oh, there’s reason enough for some to vote for her, stupidity is all the reason they need.


40 posted on 07/25/2015 5:25:25 PM PDT by RipSawyer (Racism is racism, regardless of the race of the racist.)
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