Hillary Clinton's declining favorability numbers, in context

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Buried beneath Wednesday's eye-popping headlines about Hillary Clinton's sinking favorability ratings, you'll find the reason that she's still on course to win the Democratic primary.

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A full 80 percent of Democrats view Clinton favorably, compared with 70 percent who feel that way about Biden. Her number among African Americans is 79 percent, and it's 68 percent among Hispanics. By comparison, Biden is viewed favorably by just 67 percent of African Americans and 49 percent of Hispanics.

That helps explain why Clinton is blowing her Democratic competition out of the water in national horse-race polls. She was up 35 percentage points in a head-to-head matchup with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in a PPP poll conducted August 28 to 30 and held a 45-22-18 lead over Sanders and Biden in a Quinnipiac survey conducted from August 20 to 25.

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The Clinton ship has taken on water. But, along with other recent surveys, this poll tell us that Clinton is still running away with her party's nomination and remains in better position than any of her Republican or Democratic rivals to advance to the all-important second round of the presidential race. For someone who lost the 2008 primary in part because she looked ahead to the general election, it makes sense to focus on winning the primary first in 2016. On that score, she's still in great shape.



http://www.vox.com/2015/9/2/9247783/clinton-declining-poll-numbers

[Romulox]

1. She's not less popular...it's just that her appeal is becoming more selective!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

3. I don't open links from strangers. They might contain viruses.

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[Romulox]

7. Youtube is a pretty popular service. You might familiarize yourself with it!

[whatchamacallit]

2. Take these off

[DemocratSinceBirth]

5. Yeah, sure, whatever, lol.

[Scootaloo]

4. "The Clinton ship has taken on water."

This explains the frantic bailing, I suppose.

[cali]

6. I have no doubt she'll win the primary. I have a lot of doubt concerning the general.

It all depend on.who the republican nominee is and who can excite their respective parties. But let's face it, republicans will turn out to vote against her, and she's in trouble with independents.

[ram2008]

8. There are other issues if you dig deeper

Mainly her favorability among Registered Voters is lower-- down to: 43 fav/ 56 unfav

Her fav among whites is 34/65 and on the decline, minority support hasn't been measured much, but I believe hispanics are starting to slowly turn away from her. The more people start paying attention, the more her numbers will drop. Haven't seen any evidence yet that that isn't the case. It's still very early.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

10. Her favorability rating with Hispanics was 68% in the 7/15 Univision Poll

Her fav among whites is 34/65 and on the decline, minority support hasn't been measured much, but I believe hispanics are starting to slowly turn away from her.

Her favorability rating with Hispanics was 68% in the 7/15 Univision Poll which is the gold standard for polling Hispanic voters:


http://huelladigital.univisionnoticias.com/the-latin-vote/


and it is 68% today in the ABC-WAPO poll...

The evidence suggests Madame Secretary remains hugely popular with non majority voters

[leveymg]

9. Her negatives have long been extraordinarily high. In 2008 -47, now -57. The General is everything

If she's not electable, Democrats shouldn't be supporting her.