Oh My: Hillary Now Trails Six Different Republicans in New National Poll

Townhall.com ^ | November 23, 2015 | Guy Benson

[Kaslin]

Happy Thanksgiving week, conservatives:

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Poll: At least 7 GOP candidates beat or tie @HillaryClinton if race held today. @SundayFutures pic.twitter.com/to0piVh2lm Fox News (@FoxNews) November 22, 2015

Rubio's up eight, Jeb's up six, Trump and Carson are up five, Cruz is up four, and Christie's up three. Fiorina is tied with Hillary, at 42 percent apiece. The sample is R+1 -- perhaps a bit generous -- but Hillary's fundamentals remain terrible, including a dead-last (38/58) 'honest and trustworthy' score among the field.  And it's entirely plausible that more Americans are identifying as Republicans in the wake of the Paris attacks, especially as Democrats weirdly channel their energies toward sanitizing the threat of radical Islam and pushing an unpopular refugee policy, while accusing skeptics of un-American bigotry.  Why, based on these data points from the new scientific, nonpartisan nationwide survey, it's almost as if the Democratic Party is intent on solidifying a reputation of perilously naive weakness on national security and defense:

83% think Islamist extremist terrorists will try to attack US homeland in near future:

https://t.co/lYiGUUuSgp— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) November 22, 2015

By 66/29 margin, US voters believe US *is* at war with radical Islam, rejecting Obama/Hillary posture:

https://t.co/lYiGUUuSgp— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) November 22, 2015

~2/3 of voters (65%) say Obama not aggressive enough vs. ISIS. Lots of "folks poppin' off:"

https://t.co/lYiGUUuSgp— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) November 22, 2015

*67%* of voters disapprove of Obama's Syrian refugee policy. Just 28% approve (exact same # in Bloomberg poll):

https://t.co/lYiGUUuSgp— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) November 22, 2015

Voters oppose closing Gitmo by 28-point margin. Oppose Obama bypassing Congress to do so by whopping (73/20):

https://t.co/lYiGUUuSgp— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) November 22, 2015

No wonder President Setback has been so cranky and demagogic lately (his overall approval rating slumps to 40/54 in this poll).  His policies have failed, and Americans know it. His indignant blamestorming has beenutterly unconvincing on substance, even among many Democrats.  The administration claims the facts are on their side regarding refugee vetting.  But they're not pounding the facts; they're impotently pounding the table.  Take another look at the "radical Islam" numbers above, then marvel at the breathtaking tone-deafness of this new DNC ad:

Inciting fear isn't presidential
Every single Republican candidate featured in the spot rightfully goes out of his way to employ "radical" or "extreme" qualifiers.  The Bush comments presented as a "rebuttal" simply hammer home the painfully obvious point that radical Islam shouldn't be lazily conflated with Islam itself.  Also, as Allahpundit notes, the notion that Bush never used the term "radical Islam" because it would "incite fear" is, um, incorrect.  What a mind-blowingly stupid ad.  Republicans should urge the Democrats to run it 24/7.  On the Guantanamo issue, in addition to lopsided sentiment against closing the facility -- especially through an illegal power play -- nearly seven-in-ten voters also say they'd oppose relocating any of Gitmo's dangerous jihadi detainees from the secure facility in Cuba to their home state.  This may explain why Congressional Democrats have repeatedly helped Republicans block Obama's efforts to close the prison, yet the White House remains obsessed with doing so.  Will Obama defy the will of Congress, heavy public opinion, and the legal conclusion of his own Attorney General?

AG Lynch On Bringing Gitmo Detainees To U.S.: 'The Law Currently Does Not Allow For That'

Some indicators suggest Obama is planning subvert the law anyway, and he's setting the stage for it by releasing and transferring hardcore terrorists to other countries.  I'll leave you with the latest from Team Smart Power, which informed Americans that "jayvee" ISIS was "contained" just before Paris, and that Al Qaeda was "neutralized" right before Mali (ahem):

John Kerry: Al Qaeda is "neutralized" https://t.co/hX9NJOBKSp Ex-DIA Director Mike Flynn to me today: Al Qaeda doubled in size since 2008— Stephen Hayes (@stephenfhayes) November 20, 2015

[Eric in the Ozarks]

No surprise here.
Cancels has 6 different regional accents in her vocabulary, depending on where she’s speaking...

[MrEdd]

I foresee a resurgence of the movement to draft Lie-a-watha.

[Steely Tom]

The Dems want Bernie.

[CMB_polarization]

Start thinking about a Biden draft.

[rightwingcrazy]

It’s notable that her support is capped at about 40%, regardless of whom she is polled against. They might have tried Mickey Mouse or Bin Laden, to see if the result differed.

As always, dead people don’t answer pollsters, but their vote has an impact. Clinton’s probably not too concerned at this point.

[DeFault User]

The Dem bench is empty and rotting.

[I want the USA back]

Yeah, but that just means that the media is going to try twice as hard to destroy Trump and Cruz.

[smoothsailing]

[Ann Archy]

I thought I read another story that Hillary was up over all the Republicans!!

[ConservativeWarrior]

Really, really need to avoid Trump being forced to go independent by the RNC.

It’s the only way she can win, and something she’s likely trying to orchestrate.

[Qiviut]

Every time Omuslim has opened his mouth, ISIS has proved him wrong: ISIS is jayvee, ISIS is contained.

This morning, the headline on our local paper was “Obama says ISIS ‘cannot strike a mortal blow’ at U.S.”

It made me literally sick to see that - ISIS will do their best to prove Omuslim wrong, as they have previously, & more Americans are going to die. I’m convinced there will be a major attack in this country and a lot of others more knowledgeable about such matters than I agree. Omuslim has blood on his hands already .... at a minimum, he needs to shut up before we’re all awash in it.

Trey Gowdy got it right: “what I’m afraid of is a foreign policy that creates more widows and orphans”. Ted Cruz also got it right: “Barack Obama does not wish to defend this country”. Unfortunately, we have to try to survive this ‘enemy within’ until he’s out of office.

[ScottinVA]

R+1?

Much as these head-to-head matchups look encouraging, R+1 is not a realistic sampling of the American electorate.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I foresee a resurgence of the movement to draft Lie-a-watha.

I think so. The MSM is warning the Dem Party that Hillary is a fatally damaged candidate. Obama can pull the flush handle by indicting her over the server.

[Buckeye McFrog]

R+1 is not a realistic sampling of the American electorate

More like G+37 (*G = gimmedats)

[beethovenfan]

Oh well, she can always bake cookies....

[MNJohnnie]

Look at the trend just against Cruz

Hillary’s numbers have dropped off a cliff. What happened?

The drop starts about the same time the Islamic Facists attacked Paris.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_cruz_vs_clinton-4034.html

[Kaslin]

some our side are helping the media to destroy Cruz.

[Bluebeard16]

Jebbie at 45%?

[TBP]

But she’s inevitable.