Clinton shrugs off slumping poll numbers, looks to debate

[Katashi_itto]

Presidential contender Hillary Clinton shrugged off her slumping poll numbers on Monday and said the upcoming Democratic debates would give her a chance to draw a contrast with liberal Senator Bernie Sanders and other rivals as she makes her White House pitch directly to voters.

“You’re supposed to have an election; you’re supposed to have a contest,” Clinton told reporters after a campaign event in Iowa, the state that will kick off the Democratic presidential nominating contest early next year.

“When we start the debate, we will start to draw contrasts not only as I do all the time with Republicans but where appropriate with my Democratic competitors,” she said.

Clinton, once the prohibitive favorite for the Democratic nomination for the 2016 presidential election, has seen her cushion dwindle in polls both nationally and in early-voting states such as Iowa and New Hampshire amid questions about her use of a private email server for her work as secretary of state.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/09/clinton-shrugs-off-slumping-poll-numbers-looks-to-debate/

[morningfog]

1. Let's start the debates sooner, Hillary. Put your money where you mouth is.

The ball is in her court.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Sounds like we need more debates!

[LondonReign2]

3. Once the national poll numbers cross

--which judging by the trajectory will be much sooner than previously anticipated-- DWS will have a change of heart.

[Trajan]

21. Exactly ...

When it suits them, when it helps her, they will change the schedule ... pisses me off they run our party like a fiefdom ...

[Thinkingabout]

4. Hillary will do very well in the debates.

[Katashi_itto]

5. Lol

[Autumn]

22. Bernie will do better.

[hifiguy]

6. The "contrast" will NOT redound to

HRH's benefit.

[pa28]

7. I wonder if DNC Debbie will decide a full debate schedule is a good idea after all.

Seems like a good idea to me.

[closeupready]

8. She'll decide it's a good idea when it's 100% apparent Bernie is going to win the nomination.

[Catherina]

10. Trainwreck of a campaign all over again n/t

[hifiguy]

12. It's amazing, isn't it?

As Yogi Berra said, it's deja vu all over again.

[BuelahWitch]

13. Yes, you'd think they'd have learnt something from the last time.

Apparently not.

[Catherina]

15. Larry Wilmore nailed it on the Nightly Show

“Oh my God! Oh no! Is this happening again? A candidate of passion is about to overtake Hillary? She’s about to get Obama'd by an old white man," Wilmore said. "It is one thing for a cool brother to just burst into the scene and all that brotherness just fills out on the campaign trail. That’s just science. But when people are more inspired by a guy who looks like the about-to-retire dean of students at Oberlin, I gotta ask: What the hell is going on?”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/wilmore-clinton-sanders-obama-surge

[hifiguy]

18. OMG.

[Catherina]

26. He's too funny. I'm hooked!

and also this one

http://www.alternet.org/media/watch-hillarys-principal-bernies-cool-teacher-wilmore-panel-breaks-down-clinton-vs-sanders

[840high]

28. Thank you. THANK YOU! I needed that.

[peacebird]

27. OMG! That is hysterical! Love it!

[Fred Sanders]

11. Temporary respite break at the beginning of the long road currently full of Trump bumps erected by the media.

http://crooksandliars.com/2015/09/politix-update-why-hillary-clintons-fall

[magical thyme]

14. Bring it on. nt

[demwing]

16. Oh so NOW she's itchy for the debates?

Magic DNC 8 Ball Says:

[Logical]

25. LOL, good one! nt

[demwing]

17. And btw, i don't the the email mess has anything to do

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with Clinton's rapid decline in state and national polling.

I think she's got a viability issue, and clearly all of the damned money in the world can't buy her an ounce of electability.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

19. So, get on with it. Invite the other candidates and hold the debate outside the DNC bubble.

[in_cog_ni_to]

20. So be it.

By October, her poll numbers could be in the toilet. After the debates, they'll be in the sewer! There's a point when you get so far behind you can't climb out.

BERNIE is only going to climb in the polls after the debates.

[reformist2]

23. Hillary should relax, she still has a 26 point lead nationally...

[Motown_Johnny]

24. those who are running behind always want to debate

I bet she is wishing that they weren't already rigged to protect the front runner.

That is going to be a real problem for her in another couple of months.