Hillary's Campaign Manager: “A lot of the public polling is not very reliable"

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Taken from:
Hillary Clinton Aides Shed Light on Bill’s Role in Her Campaign
http://time.com/3920153/bill-clinton-hillary-campaign-adviser/

Mook also dismissed recent poll numbers that suggest Hillary Clinton’s favorability numbers are slipping. According to a CNN poll published last week, 57% of Americans think the former secretary of state is not trustworthy. “A lot of the public polling is not very reliable,” Mook said. “I don’t pay a whole lot of attention to it.”

[Man from Pickens]

1. oh this is rich

not as rich as the Clintons mysteriously got from public office, but still

does this mean the HRC loyalists will stop telling us the polls say we need to bend over and accept the inevitable?

[antigop]

3. I thought it was pretty funny.

[antigop]

5. feel free to use it.

[roguevalley]

13. let me womansplain this to you: "Its only good if it favors us. Bad otherwise."

Her sudden changes of position and newly claimed championship of those who aren't rich/banksters/etc appears to be fooling no one.

[SusanCalvin]

20. IOKIYAC? nt

[antigop]

24. It only counts if you're a Clinton??? nt

[SusanCalvin]

25. It's OK if you're a Clinton.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=iokiyar

[brooklynite]

27. Funny thing; I've heard the Sanders people say the same thing...

Clinton lead: it's "name recognition" or "too early to be meaningful"

Sanders gaining: "the Clinton campaign is collapsing"

[Motown_Johnny]

37. We don't say it is wrong.. we are addressing why it exists

Those are two very different things.


It is name recognition and it is too early to be meaningful because the debates have not even started yet.

Going into full on denial is completely different.

[JonLeibowitz]

39. Kick. n/t

[roguevalley]

38. :D OK. :D

[SusanCalvin]

19. BOHICA!

Sorry, couldn't resist.....

[HooptieWagon]

2. Baghdad Bob...is that you?

[elleng]

4. Thought so;

NO WAY Webb is beating O'Malley!

[Bernie 2016]

6. Too perfect.

This is an excellent weapon against Ms. Clintons supporters touting polls this early saying Hillary is inevitiable.

That means the Clinton campaign may be *very* nervous about the polls earlier than expected. Their internals aren't good.

[antigop]

7. yeah, I thought so.

[SusanCalvin]

26. Boomerang! nt

[antigop]

8. hat tip to Divernan who posted the article

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1280&pid=17016

[demwing]

9. Who you think you're foolin:, Mook?

We've seen 8 seasons of The West Wing and 3 seasons of House of Cards, lol. We know your tricks, Mookie.

[sabrina 1]

10. So all those polls we saw here over the past year, where Hillary was 80% with Liberals, were not

not reliable after all?

I remember arguing that since there were no other candidates in the race, they probably didn't mean much. But that argument was dismissed completely with 'who else can compete with her'?

Well, now we know.

[L0oniX]

12. ^^^this^^^

[antigop]

18. I also noticed something...

Whenever the media mentions polls, I can never find the actual questions that were asked.

How were the questions worded?

[MisterP]

22. interestingly a strong explanation was that "more liberal" was just code for "very Democratic"

the two spectra have been heavily conflated

[Babel_17]

32. Even more serious than the competition, is the contrast

All the candidates we've seen so far have gone extensively on the record over the years. Their associates, and donors, and supporters, and beneficiaries of their actions, are also known, and will receive more and more attention.

This isn't the general election where one gets compared to the champion of the ethically and morally bankrupt Republican party.

[sabrina 1]

35. Yes, this won't be the kind of campaign we are so used to and bored by. It will be

the campaign where all of the candidates will be forced to talk about issues.

I also think that NEGATIVE ADS are going to become an issue, and not a good one for those who go that route. Eg, O'Malley's negative attack ad on Bernie has backfired on him already, causing former supporters to back away from his candidacy comparing his tactics, so early in the game, to the far higher standards Bernie is adhering to.

It's a shame as I liked him as a second choice had Bernie not been in the race. But not anymore, that exposed him as part of the old status quo regarding our low standards for what passes for 'discussion'.

Btw, Bernie wiped the floor with that ad, addressing again ONLY THE ISSUE, not O'Malley who he never mentioned, on Stephanapoulis show this morning.

He is a class act and the more the difference is seen the more people will demand his standards of running a campaign.

[Babel_17]

36. Food for thought, and thanks ...

Food for thought, and thanks for the heads-up about the Stephanapoulis show. Interesting to consider what GS thinks of Bernie; IIRC he was noted for being a bit of an idealist, back in the day.

I was prepared to forgive some rough delivery if Sanders was going to energetically get out there and give lots of interviews and speeches, and take on the hard questions and issues.

A bit surprised and very pleased that Sanders is performing well above my estimation. And I wasn't setting the bar low at all. Not much precedent for his performance, and I think it's partly how he's giving energizing talks that is causing the upheaval we're seeing.

[kath]

11. Laughing. My. Ass. Off.

[RoccoR5955]

14. ROTFLMAOPMP!!!

[99Forever]

15. Oh them fickle fickle polls.

[OhioChick]

16. LMAO

[DRoseDARs]

17. What an unfortunate lastname... n/t

[Man from Pickens]

21. He's genre-savvy about it though

I could not find one image anywhere with him wearing a red shirt

[marble falls]

30. Unfortunate? Apt.

[morningfog]

23. Of course. Hillary only believes in the very expensive, very secret private polling.

She can afford to buy the polling she wants.

[winter is coming]

28. I guess he has the math. n/t

[Ken Burch]

29. Does her campaign take that view about the polls that supposedly show her with a big lead

for the nomination?

[Babel_17]

31. His pay depends on the attention paid to his numbers

Oh boy, his attitude suggests a campaign that is operating from deep within a bubble. Time to raise more cash, and spend lots of it, to dispel these numbers.

[JHB]

33. Where have I heard that before, some guy whose name had double-letters...

And started with "M"....

Hmmm.

Was it Meep? No. Maapp? No, just one set of doubles. Hmmm. Mill? No, but there's something about that... Mitt! Yeah, that's the guy! How did that whole "poll unskewing" thing go for him, anyhow?

Might want to remember that, Mookie.

[Fumesucker]

34. Two words...