Hillary Clinton
Related: About this forumPolls Prove Media's Coverage of Hillary Clinton Is Downright Irresponsible (HILLARY GROUP)
Casual observers of recent media coverage would reasonably conclude that the Hillary Clinton campaign is in serious trouble. Headlines across news sources allege her falling poll numbers and once secure spot of the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. But a closer inspection of the most recent poll by Quinnipiac University that has spawned the headlines "Hillary slips, Trump rises in national poll" and "Hillary Clinton Hits Lows on Favorability, Trustworthiness in new poll," among hundreds of others, reveals a very different story--Hillary Clinton's position is strong and her opponents are the ones who are in trouble.
Here is what the poll really shows about Clinton:
1. She wins the Democratic nomination handily: Clinton beats Sanders by a whopping 23 points (45 percent vs. 22 percent) and Biden by 27 points. For all the talk of Sanders' surge and Biden's popularity, Democratic voters overwhelmingly favor Clinton as their nominee.
2. She beats the Republicans: Clinton tops Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and Donald Trump in head-to-head match-ups. Curiously, this result didn't even make it into Quinnipiac's press release narrative.
3. She wins demographic groups that are key to success in 2016...
4. Everyone's favorability ratings are suffering: Clinton isn't the only one with net negative favorability scores--voters also have negative impressions of both Bush and Trump. Clinton is also more liked among members of her Party (76 percent of Democrats give her a positive rating) than Bush and Trump among Republicans (59 percent favorable).
5. She is seen as a stronger leader than both Sanders and Biden: Lost in the buzz about her trustworthiness scores is an arguably even more important score--leadership qualities. A majority of voters (57 percent) say Clinton has strong leadership qualities compared to 35 percent who say the same about Sanders and 46 percent about Biden....
As political consultant Peter D. Rosenstein said of this poll and others: "Any candidate seeing numbers like Hillary has in those polls would be opening champagne and their opponents would be figuring out what they are doing wrong." So why, then, does the media report otherwise?
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/8066832 via Huffington Post
ericson00
(2,707 posts)riversedge
(70,197 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Corporate smelly media touts HRC is in BIG TROUBLE, oh my. E-mailgate, Benghazigate, everygate they can manufacture, now MSNBC touting Debategate.
What a load of crap. Anywho, HRC will be the next President of the Unites States of America!
Control-Z
(15,682 posts)"be careful what you ask for" things. Hillary is great in debates.
kjones
(1,053 posts)For all the hubbub about how Hillary is a "corporate shill" of some
sort, she sure doesn't seem to get much help from the corporate
media. And for a supposed "conservative" she sure doesn't seem
to get a lot of support from them either.
Even Bernie get's more conservative support...
They can "Bernie bounce" all day, but we have the
community power of the Hillary Hug.
Keep up the hard work people.
(Not sure if something like that would catch on)
DeepModem Mom
(38,402 posts)Hillary Hug
mcar
(42,306 posts)And they despise anyone named Clinton.
ffr
(22,669 posts)Oh, you beat me to it.
Every election cycle it's the same thing. Reporting gets skewed weirdly to knock down the front runner and boost rivals and almost never the other way around, no matter how many different news stories are in circulation.
Which only goes to prove, that you need to be skeptical of any news story nowadays.
mcar
(42,306 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)Now I don't know who to believe.
...heh.
livetohike
(22,140 posts)some good polling news I think many from my Mom's generation will be getting to the polls to vote for Hillary.
kjones
(1,053 posts)What ages are (were) your father/father in law?
Your kids will be set for genes if they're anything similar!
Hoping I got some good ones too, from my 85/87 g-g-parents and 84 grandma
(other side, of course, ha.) I should have about 6 decades to find out though!
livetohike
(22,140 posts)1992. I never had children. I hope to make it into my 90's. Thirty more years to go !
May you live long and prosper .
Cha
(297,158 posts)livetohike
(22,140 posts)Cha
(297,158 posts)rtracey
(2,062 posts)and the MSM went ballistic when the state department released 7000 more emails.......ummmm... THATS WHAT SHE WANTED TOO DO... SHE SAID TO RELEASE THE EMAILS.... YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A REASON TOO DESTROY HER.... AND YOU WILL FAIL
Sorry, yelling is not good, but sometimes the MSM need to have a few words screamed into their hideous ears
BrainMann1
(460 posts)It reminds me of when Mr. Rove lost it and said Mitt had won. You go Girl!
lame54
(35,287 posts)oasis
(49,378 posts)her swearing in ceremony.