Poll Shows Erosion Of Trust in Clinton

[keep_it_real]

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Her advisers' efforts to deal with the problem -- by having her acknowledge her mistakes and crack self-deprecating jokes -- do not seem to have succeeded. Privately, the aides admit that the recent controversy over her claim to have ducked sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia probably made things worse.

Clinton is viewed as "honest and trustworthy" by just 39 percent of Americans, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, compared with 52 percent in May 2006. Nearly six in 10 said in the new poll that she is not honest and trustworthy. And now, compared with Obama, Clinton has a deep trust deficit among Democrats, trailing him by 23 points as the more honest, an area on which she once led both Obama and John Edwards.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/15/AR2008041502883.html?hpid=topnews

[grantcart]

1. this is heading towards Bush/Nixon territory

[islandmkl]

2. maybe her crew can take solace in that territory...

they will probably point out that "both those guys got elected President!"

[Lucky 13]

3. The People aren't stupid, they're BITTER.

And SOMEONE finally said it. This is the difference between when you speak the truth and when you pander. The difference between honesty and embellishment.

This whole bitter thing is going to BLOW UP IN HER FACE.

I can't wait for the debates tonight. He is going to take her to school.

[kenny blankenship]

4. Since she can't win ugly, she'll lose ugly

what a way to go, and hurt the rest of us voters too - maybe out of spite?

[Zachstar]

5. Maybe the supers and the big names in the party will see this as the opening they need to endorse!

GOBAMA!!!

[MethuenProgressive]

6. Obama's Swiftboating of Hillary has worked,

She was well ahead on trust before Axlerod fired up the Swiftboat.

[iiibbb]

7. It's kind of like when one of your favorites from Survivor...

... comes back and it turns out they're jerks.


But really. I don't think there will be any long-term damage to their reputations once the dust has settled.

Unless they keep sniping.

[oviedodem]

8. With info like the following we should not be surprised ** link **

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/man-in-clintons-bitter-ad_n_96939.html