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

Posted on 09/09/2016 4:59:08 PM PDT by mandaladon

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 a mere three percentage points, having fallen from her high of nine points in August, according to the latest Real Clear Politics 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 never-ending 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.”

At the same time, Daschle said, “all the things that Trump has done, the numbers should be far more explicitly in her favor, but they’re not.”

Among Democrats’ concerns is the fact that Clinton spent a great deal of time over the summer raising millions of dollars in private fundraisers — while Trump was devoting much of his schedule to rallies, speeches and TV appearances.

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016polls; ahead; clinton; democrat; democrats; donaldtrump; hillary; hillaryclinton; polling; polls; trump; worrieddems; worry
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To: mandaladon
Get out there and meet and greet the lower class, the non Davos people. Just like she went to the National Baptist convention in KC. They are predominately black church affiliation.
There were more members of the choir than in the audience. The black vote is in her pocket, why didn't they come out to see the white queen? The meeting space kept shrinking as workers portioned off the room as fewer and fewer people showed up.

That's it Hillary go meet the little people for the first time in 30 years. You will find out that little people hate a lair, a thief, a traitor and a brain dead by her own words old feeble white woman who looks down on middle America.
By the way she has never run for an elected seat. New York would elect a sexual deviate to office if given the chance? Oh, they did.

Then she lost to a community organizer 8 years ago. She thinks she deserves to be president. Trump is showing America he is willing to work it. He will make America great again.

41 posted on 09/09/2016 5:17:17 PM PDT by Kozy (new age haruspex)
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To: mandaladon

1. she is a criminal ( government records and obstruction of justice)
2, she took bribes through the phony “foundation” and her rapist husband “speeches”.
3.She is a pathological liar.
4.She is incompetent!
She has never accomplished anything after jobs were given her.
5. She is physically sick and will not allow the voters to see her medical diagnosis.
6. etc
7. etc.


42 posted on 09/09/2016 5:17:23 PM PDT by WENDLE (Hillary emailed Jake Sullivan to remove 'The security headers" !!)
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To: mandaladon

Perhaps its because the media is so favorably biased towards Trump.

/s


43 posted on 09/09/2016 5:17:33 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: mandaladon

Spend more time connecting with the voters?

Good Lord, this woman has been a known quantity for a quarter century and her aides are still talking about trying to get her to connect with voters? You can’t give the woman a personality transplant and expect it to charm voters in the last two months. Even the people voting for her are only doing so because she has a D by her name, and she’ll keep the entitlement train rolling.


44 posted on 09/09/2016 5:18:34 PM PDT by dowcaet (.)
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To: 2banana

What if the dead people don’t even want to vote for her?


45 posted on 09/09/2016 5:19:48 PM PDT by arl295
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To: mandaladon

The Establishmedia has no idea why anyone would dare vote for Trump.

Pray America wakes


46 posted on 09/09/2016 5:20:21 PM PDT by bray (The SS Clinton is sinking)
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To: GodAndCountryFirst

Online polls have The Donald crushing the beest, sometimes by a 80/20 ratio. Don’t progressives have computers and smart phones? I know Hillary had 13.


47 posted on 09/09/2016 5:20:49 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: mandaladon
despite his historic weaknesses as a national party candidate

The only "history" we have of Donald Trump as a national party candidate is his highly successful RNC win!

48 posted on 09/09/2016 5:20:50 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Steely Tom
One was a "Stop The Don" sticker, with a stylized depiction of Donald Trumps red hair blowing in the wind.

They want to be careful with that hair logo

Trump, like Leonidas takes no prisoners....and sports a Mullet


49 posted on 09/09/2016 5:21:05 PM PDT by spokeshave (In the Thatch Weave,..Trump's Wing Man is Truth.)
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To: mandaladon

“the Democratic nominee’s advisers acknowledge that she must make changes”

Like maybe act like a real normal candidate? She’d win on that alone.


50 posted on 09/09/2016 5:21:24 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Don Corleone

Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn said the same thing you are saying, a few years ago.


51 posted on 09/09/2016 5:21:42 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: mandaladon

U gotta read the comments, they are hysterical! My favorite is one who calls her” HITLARY ROTTEN BIN clinton”. Are we sure these are not freepers commenting?! Lol.


52 posted on 09/09/2016 5:24:43 PM PDT by angelrod
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To: mandaladon
Clinton leads Trump by a mere three percentage points...

Like hell she does...

53 posted on 09/09/2016 5:25:21 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: mandaladon

Comrade Hellry’s Theme Song

I am just a vagabond, a grifter on the run
And eloquent profanity, it rolls right off my tongue
And I have dined in palaces
Drunk wine with kings and queens
But America, you’re best days will never be seen

h/t Lowell George


54 posted on 09/09/2016 5:25:30 PM PDT by newfreep ("If Lyin' Ted was an American citizen, he would be a traitor.")
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To: ClearCase_guy
I’m hoping Wikileaks has an email that talks about how to do voter fraud.

Would that be news? Everyone knows they do it, and even how they do it. Ordinarily such a disclosure would and should be damaging, but Hildebeest has immunized herself against evidence of all but the most extreme crimes.

55 posted on 09/09/2016 5:26:09 PM PDT by luvbach1 (We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
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To: mandaladon

Her campaign should ‘ask the rock and roll doctor’s advice’:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2Bk8qQJZE
Little Feat


56 posted on 09/09/2016 5:26:47 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Bogie

Now that’s a breathtaking view of an alternate reality. Gosh...wow...


57 posted on 09/09/2016 5:30:31 PM PDT by Gen.Blather (`)
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To: mandaladon

58 posted on 09/09/2016 5:30:53 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway - "Enjoy Yourself" ala Louis Prima)
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To: mandaladon

Because SHE CAN’T BE! It’s that damned simple.

Hillary has a ceiling an absolute ceiling of the low 40.. 42/43. That’s it, on her best day that’s all she can produce at most...

Anyone, other than a first time voter has pretty much decided they are going to supporter if they intend to... She’s a known entity and an abysmal politician with no inate skill or ability for retail politicking. She is cold, impersonal and comes off as disingenuous. Then add to that she’s a pathological liar and a crook. She stands no chance.

Trump has significantly more support than the polls are capturing, he has at least 2-3% of reverse Bradley effect going on... Which as it becomes obvious he is winning will start to admit they intend to vote for him... And he has at least another 2% of disenfranchised voters who are going to show up to vote that most pollsters will filter out as not likely voters because they haven’t voted in the last few elections.

Now when you realize that most undecided voters have no intention of voting for Hillary but are just holding back their decision on whether to go Trump or third party or stay home... And all they really need to be assured of is that Trump is not th crazy racist psychopath that Hilarry and the MSM spin him as, and they will mostly break for Trump.

There is nothing Hillary can say or do that is going to convince them to vote for her. She can wonk every debate answer. Cross every T dot every I... The press can throw her softballs and pound Trump with hardballs and IT WON’T MATTER... These folks aren’t going to vote for her no matter what... As long as Trump comes out of the debates not looking like a crazy loon and looks like a reasonable person... Doesn’t matter how many point Hillary may score under traditional debating judging... She loses and Trump wins and wins big.

The fact that the press and pundits can’t (or refuse) to see this shows you just how much they live in their own bubble of a world. MSNBC can claim “if you reweight the poll numbers to 2012 Hillary is up” all they want... It self delusion.. Turnout and electoral breakdown won’t be anything close to what it was in 2012. Hillary has ZERO enthusiasm... Zip, zilch, nada... The economy is in the tank as much as the Fed and Obama want to tell us otherwise.. The world is less safe... Etc etc etc... There is no argument for 4 more years of these policies and people know it... They aren’t buying the crap.

When you haven’t had a raise in a decade you aren’t buying the economy is on a roll... When you spend 2-3 times as much out of your own pocket on your health care as you did 5 years ago.. You know the economy ain’t booming.. Etc etc.

The only thing the Dems have is this insane belief that Donald Trump is so crazy he can’t win... They don’t have any argument for Hillary.. Just she’s not Trump... And “hey, at least I ain’t the other guy” ain’t going to win you a national election.


59 posted on 09/09/2016 5:31:05 PM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: mandaladon

Because the public sees that she is an angry, mean, condescending, elitist, rich, uncaring, irreligious, hypocritical, incompetent, America-hating, muzzlim-favoring witch.


60 posted on 09/09/2016 5:31:12 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The media is acting full-on as the Democratic Party's press agency now: Robert Spencer)
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