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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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To: BenLurkin

I think most of the Trump hatred is at the comPost editorial desk. And the comPost assumes that everyone else feels like they do. WRONG!


61 posted on 05/09/2016 6:44:04 AM 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: Innovative

In the Hillary v Trump contest, only one candidate is hated by the Washington insider establishment dinosaurs.


62 posted on 05/09/2016 7:17:38 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: jsanders2001

You’ve summed it up brilliantly!

He wasn’t letting himself be defined by them and in the end, they agreed with his statement about the number of actual votes he received by (paraphrasing him, but they quoted him) “smart, hard-working” people.

He’s sticking up for his voters....people dismiss his supporters as low-information morons, but he’s rejecting that. Awesome!


63 posted on 05/09/2016 7:41:14 AM PDT by proud American in Canada (God bless the United States of America)
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To: dfwgator
More than 240 million people in this country did not vote for Obama in 2012.

What is the strangest thing about this point in time--that Donald Trump is the de facto nominee of the Republican Party, or that the Cubs are 24 and 6 after 30 games?

64 posted on 05/09/2016 7:58:47 AM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Innovative

Yep, anecdotal but was at a recent family gathering, with 15 millennials, our children and spouses, all of them are voting for Trump, they hate HRC more.


65 posted on 05/09/2016 8:40:12 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: chris37
Things change, perceptions are fluid. He won me over.

Me too and my Obama voting daughter.

Love his speech after Indiana, "we are going to be such a loving and beautiful country. We are all going to love each other so much."

My husband and I quote that to each other and laugh and laugh.

66 posted on 05/09/2016 8:44:03 AM PDT by thirst4truth (America, What difference does it make?)
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To: Innovative
The year of the hated: Clinton and Trump, two intensely disliked candidates, begin their face-off

It does good to see by whom you are hated.

67 posted on 05/09/2016 9:35:45 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Innovative
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.

Clara would want to know:

"Where is the flesh of a bovine creature"?

68 posted on 05/09/2016 9:36:59 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Dang HATERS!


69 posted on 05/09/2016 9:37:19 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Innovative

This election will have the lowest voter turnout in a generation or more.


70 posted on 05/09/2016 12:20:11 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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To: Innovative

We can tell that Trump is widely hated because no one comes to his rallies. /s

Make that “no one that the GOPe and mainstream media know” come to his rallies.


71 posted on 05/09/2016 1:24:20 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: Innovative

Hillary is the most hated...especially when Trump outs her. The media protects her and she’s still hated. Wait until the media is no longer in control of Hillary’s message and image.


72 posted on 05/09/2016 2:05:19 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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