Even supporters agree: Clinton has weaknesses as a candidate. What can she do?

[Red Oak]

Withdraw?

"Hillary Clinton’s declining personal image, ongoing battle to break free of the challenge from Sen. Bernie Sanders and struggle to adapt to an anti-establishment mood among voters this year have become caution signs for her campaign and the focus of new efforts to fortify her position as she prepares for a bruising general election."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/even-supporters-agree-clinton-has-weaknesses-as-a-candidate-what-can-she-do/2016/05/15/132f4d7e-1874-11e6-924d-838753295f9a_story.html?tid=hybrid_collaborative_2_na

[ViseGrip]

1. Leave the race?

[Armstead]

2. She's lucky her opponent is Trump

[JaneyVee]

3. Current election projection: HRC 347 - DJT 193. WOMP WOMP.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Name one candidate for any race that does not have weaknesses. It goes with the territory.

[oldandhappy]

5. stop trying to satisfy everyone

Tell her truth and be consistent. Would be refreshing.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. Withdraw? Hells no!

Whatever her unfavorables are, Trump's are even worse IMHO and, once she is past this divisive primary and she is stacked up against Trump, the choice (for most people) should be pretty stark and obvious. Bernie *could* help the situation by spending his time attempting to (re-)unify the party by supporting Hillary and blasting Trump but he and many of his supporters are clinging to the hope that he can somehow pull off an upset primary victory and/or extract significant party concessions at the convention if he stays in through the end of the primary.

[coffeeAM]

7. Weakest Dem candidate in history folks!

[Betty Karlson]

8. Ditch the GE disaster that feels entitled to happen, already!

With her on top, the whole ticket is in for a shallacking.

[SFnomad]

12. And BS can't beat her in the primary ... how weak is that? n/t

[onehandle]

9. Hillary Clinton Is Statistically The Most Favored Presidential Candidate In Modern History

Less than three weeks ago, Mr Trump’s odds had fallen to 55 per cent. Now, he is as likely to be the Republican nominee as Hillary Clinton is to be the Democratic nominee, with both a 98 per cent favourite in the betting markets.

Now that he’s wrapped up the nomination, his chances of being America’s next president have shot up from 17 per cent to 29 per cent. But that still makes Hillary Clinton a 69 per cent favourite (Mr Sanders or ‘some other Republican’ both have a 1 per cent chance).

That means Ms Clinton begins this six-month race more favoured than any other candidate in modern history: more than Mr Obama ever was against John McCain in 2008 or Mitt Romney in 2012, or George Bush was against Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/trump-clinton-begins-as-the-most-lopsided-race-in-the-modern-era-a7012321.html

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. FIXED

Hillary Clinton is statistically the most favored presidential candidate In modern history despite the efforts of some supporters of Senator Sanders if not the candidate himself to torpedo her chances.

[firebrand80]

11. Everyone has weaknesses

The good news for Hillary is that I think she matches up against well against Trump

-Her poor favorability ratings is a weakness, but Trumps are even higher. The numbers suggest that a significant number of voters don't like either one, so for those folks it comes back to who would make the better president. On that question, it's not even a contest.

-Her scandals/trustworthiness. Again, Trump has just as much baggage if not more, so this is also a wash at best.

-Her campaign "style." She is not a talented campaigner, and she's coming on the heels of one of the best campaigners in history, which makes her look worse. The good news is that she's at her best after she takes a punch and hits back. Her best time in this campaign? Bouncing back to win NV after losing NH. In 2008? Bouncing back to win NH after losing Iowa, and winning TX, OH, and PA after she was left for dead. Trump is going to attack her relentlessly, and the media is going to pounce on every possible indication of her weakness. Even though she's favored, Trump sucks up most of the oxygen in the room. This puts her in the odd place of being an underdog of sorts, even though she's favored to win. That's just fine with me, she performs better as an underdog than she is as a frontrunner.

This is all before we get to the GOP's demographic/EV map problem, which Trump likely makes worse instead of better.

[mikehiggins]

13. People don't trust her. She is a known commodity and now even talks about bringing her husband

into the White House with her.

It may sound like a joke or hyperbole but those who have no use for her will crawl naked over broken glass for the chance to vote against her.

How do you overcome that?