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The long and short of it: Hillary's negatives come from her career in politics. Trump's come from, well, being Trump and his negatives in politics are incidental and malleable at this point. To which Salon is postulating that Hillary's road to the White House is a whole lot rougher (to the point they now admit Trump has a chance to win.)
1 posted on 05/29/2016 9:08:09 AM PDT by kingu
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Leftists are addicts to various sorts of toxicities. They have gotten so high and used to the meme that Hillary would mop the floor with anyone and even salivated having Trump as their opponent. Be careful what they wish for == they just may get it.


34 posted on 05/29/2016 9:51:04 AM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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As the 2016 presidential primaries got underway, there seemed to be several incontrovertible truths: Hillary Clinton’s nomination was inevitable, and Donald Trump stood no chance. Yet, here we are six months before the election, and Trump has seized the Republican nomination

If you could see what was coming since 6/15/2015, the day Trump announced, pat yourself on the back. Because all the experts, pundits, media, talk show liars, lawyer politicians were all 100% wrong about Trump and America.

36 posted on 05/29/2016 9:53:05 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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They are so screwed.


38 posted on 05/29/2016 9:55:42 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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Impressive article, particularly being written by someone likely to be deported.


40 posted on 05/29/2016 10:02:02 AM PDT by BobL
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Such anal agony...


42 posted on 05/29/2016 10:03:27 AM PDT by bigbob
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Thankfully Rubio didn’t get his way in 2013, or Trump likely wouldn’t be running, and if he did run, all of Rubio’s newly-naturalized ‘citizens’ would EASILY make sure that he never had a chance.


44 posted on 05/29/2016 10:05:48 AM PDT by BobL
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A brilliant analysis from a committed lefty.


45 posted on 05/29/2016 10:09:24 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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The commie libs are starting to panic. There’s a lot of bedwetting and exploding heads going on out there.


46 posted on 05/29/2016 10:10:11 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (It's time to take the ticks out of politics.)
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Good article... well-balanced and an astute analysis.

Professor Al-Gharbi is probably right Hillary has a narrow path to victory.

What cripples her are her ethical baggage, her stiff manners and the fact Americans want change.

And she is the establishment candidate.


47 posted on 05/29/2016 10:12:53 AM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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like the man said, flying and hours being flown are not diplomacy


51 posted on 05/29/2016 10:23:53 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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Everyone, including Obama, was shocked that Obama won a second term. Tens of millions of electronic votes were switched from Romney to Obama. Millions of votes were cast for Obama just because the voter registrations existed, and no person showed up to vote in that slot.

Nothing has been done to counteract the massive voter fraud in many states.

55 posted on 05/29/2016 10:40:59 AM PDT by meadsjn
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"Granted, Obama has been a transformational president, and his popularity remains high..."

"Despite Hillary Clinton’s unparalleled credentials, ..."

Doesn't this posting require a mandatory "BARF" or "HURL" alert in title?

62 posted on 05/29/2016 12:26:40 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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This is one of the most objective analysis of the race. It is worth the read.


63 posted on 05/29/2016 12:26:47 PM PDT by Walkingfeather
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Granted, Obama has been a transformational president, and his popularity remains high. However, the problem facing Hillary is that she’s not only going to be held to account for the failures and shortcomings of the Obama administration, but also of her husband’s tenure in office.

Failures and shortcomings? I thought Obama was transformational and very popular. So was Billy Bob back in the good old days, right? Hillary should have this locked up!

Liberals' cognitive dissonance never ceases to amaze me.

64 posted on 05/29/2016 12:28:54 PM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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I believe Bernie has a lot to say about this election. His supporters are key to pushing Hillary across the finish line. At least without them she is sunk.


67 posted on 05/29/2016 12:45:53 PM PDT by cornfedcowboy
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While I have a visceral skepticism of analyses coming from professors of Sociology, this was a surprisingly enjoyable article, and I thank you for posting it. The author is thinking about the right things, IMHO, it's just that there are a few highly questionable premises preventing him from taking it to a more objective level.

Accusations of misogyny, for instance, are often heard in the context of a fundamentally anti-white, anti-Christian culture war—a zero-sum campaign waged against ordinary hard-working Americans by condescending and politically correct liberal elites.

It isn't just misogyny, the big one is racism, and there seems to be an institutional blind spot on the part of liberal commentators that prevents them from recognizing how profoundly offensive the three-pronged attack on middle-class values has been from politicians such as 0bama and his band of race-baiters, complicit media that do not consider opposition to be valid and refuse to present it objectively, and the academic elitists who came up with it in the first place. Nor is it only the white targets of this campaign who find it offensive, since the historical and honorable civil rights struggle has now been relegated to the status of toilet access for sexual degenerates.

The author won't admit it, but I think he can see it: the problem is that the war on the middle class has generated a tidal wave of resentment whose expression in the media is impermissible and hence invisible to those who derive all of their political data therefrom. Trump's appeal is a huge mystery and will remain so to people who systematically delegitimize it sources. They can't see it through the blindfold of ideology and are too fond of that blindfold to remove it.

One topic that doesn't seem to garner much attention is the relative ability of the two main candidates simply to communicate, but it's one reason Hillary is not only perceived as a bad candidate, but actually is. She cannot be trusted even by her political allies. She is noncommittal, deliberately ambiguous, and historically deceitful, which is precisely the behavior one expects from a criminal trying not to get caught. CrookedHillary looks like a crook on the podium and she is, and the voters have noticed. And what this obvious mendacity has managed to do is write Trump a free pass: he could recite Jabberwocky and the voters would still be happier with that than someone whose every word comes across as carefully parsed criminal testimony full of technicalities and double meanings.

The brutal truth is that CrookedHillary is a terrible candidate because she's a terrible person. Were the author to begin with that premise the current poll numbers might not be quite such a mystery to him.

69 posted on 05/29/2016 1:10:35 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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By Musa al-Garbhi.

Nuff said.


70 posted on 05/29/2016 4:37:58 PM PDT by Jack Hammer ( - in ANY sense - a woman.)
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No, what really happened was that the MSM got blindsided by that Inspector General report on Hillary Clinton’s private email server, which essentially backed up (pun not intended here!) what the political Right have been saying about its use for many months. And they now realize she’s still as devious and sleazy as ever.


72 posted on 05/29/2016 6:48:37 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's Economic Cure)
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