Clinton Goes Under Water; Trump Polarization Grows (POLL)

[Purveyor]

Sep 2, 2015, 7:00 AM ET
By GARY LANGER

Negative views of Hillary Clinton have jumped to nearly their highest on record in ABC News/Washington Post polls, while Donald Trump’s personal popularity has grown more polarized along racial and ethnic lines.

Clinton’s favorability has burbled back under water: 45 percent of Americans now see her favorably, down 7 percentage points since midsummer, while 53 percent rate her unfavorably, up 8. Her unfavorable score is a single point from its highest in ABC/Post polls dating back 23 years; that came in April 2008, in the midst of her last presidential campaign.

See PDF with full results, charts and tables here.

Trump is much farther under water than Clinton, rated favorably by 37 percent of Americans and unfavorably by 59 percent. That reflects a slight 4-point rise in favorability since mid-July, entirely among whites, +6 points. Nonwhites see Trump negatively by a vast 17-79 percent, unchanged among Hispanics and more negative among blacks, by 16 points, since midsummer.

That said, whites are the majority group –- 64 percent of the adult population -– and they now divide evenly on Trump, 48-49 percent, favorable-unfavorable. Clinton, by contrast, is far more unpopular than Trump among whites, 34-65 percent. So while racial and ethnic polarization is on the rise in views of Trump, it remains even higher for Clinton.

Given their support profiles -– Clinton’s more popular in groups that are less likely to be registered -– the difference in her and Trump’s popularity narrows among registered voters. In this group Clinton’s favorable-unfavorable score is 43-56 percent (-13 points); Trump’s is 40-58 percent (-18). Negative views of Clinton among registered voters are up by 10 points from July, while Trump’s ratings in this group are essentially unchanged.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/clinton-water-trump-polarization-grows-poll/story?id=33461702

[Metric System]

1. Congrats to the GOP and MSM.

[cali]

4. Hillary is responsible as well

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. Well, she's "not as bad" as Trump.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. This article makes me want to read this book again:

http://www.amazon.com/Stupid-White-Men-Excuses-Nation/dp/B000GH2YPQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441219431&sr=8-1&keywords=stupid+white+man

[99th_Monkey]

5. Poll: Bernie Sanders would beat Donald Trump

Washington (CNN)Sen. Bernie Sanders runs far behind Hillary Clinton in the Democratic nomination fight, but the socialist from Vermont would defeat New York real estate mogul and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump in a presidential general election, a new poll suggests.

A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday shows that in a hypothetical general election match-up, Sanders tops Trump 44% to 39%. The data point shows that although Trump is leading the GOP pack now, he could prove to be a disaster for Republicans in a broader presidential contest next year.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/30/politics/bernie-sanders-donald-trump-poll/

[Aerows]

6. Democrats are starting to see

that they don't HAVE to support Hillary and that there are other alternatives beside Clinton vs. Clown Car. This is exactly what the shortened debate schedule was designed to prevent, but it's not working very well.