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Trump Solidifies Lead In Latest Poll As Hillary Finds She Has A "Likability Problem"
Yesterday, the media unleashed its latest iteration of "Trump is leading in the polls so the GOP establishment is panicking" when the NYT reported that "Wary of Donald Trump, G.O.P. Leaders Are Caught in a Standoff" in which it said that "many leading Republican officials, strategists and donors now say they fear that Mr. Trump’s nomination would lead to an electoral wipeout, a sweeping defeat that could undo some of the gains Republicans have made in recent congressional, state and local elections."
This follows less than three weeks after another left media outlet, the Bezos Post wrote "Time for GOP panic? Establishment worried Carson or Trump might win" in which many of the same concerns were voiced.
So if indeed it is the case that the GOP establishment is concerned about Trump's continuing leadership headed into Iowa, then it will have nightmares following the latest polling data from Quinnipiac University which finds that Trump is now aggressively pulling away from the republican field with 27% of the Republican vote nationwide, while Marco Rubio languishes in second place at 17%, while the popularity of Trump's former challenger, Ben Carson, has tumbled and is now tied for third place nationally with Ted Cruz, both drawing 16% of the vote.
Most disappointing for the GOP establishment will be news that Jeb Bush remains mired in the bottom with just 5%, while the rest of the crowded GOP field remains under 3%.
As the WSJ comments, "the latest poll marks a setback for Mr. Carson, who has surged in early national polls. In last month’s Quinnipiac poll, Mr. Carson was in a statistical dead heat with Mr. Trump, with each man drawing just under a quarter of the Republican vote."
Since then, Mr. Carson has been challenged on the truthfulness many of the biographical details of well-known life story, and on his knowledge of foreign policy. CNN, for example, failed to turn up any evidence for Mr. Carson’s claim that he attempted to stabbed a friend he calls Bob in several of his books. He also has been challenged on his claim that he received a scholarship to the military academy West Point. Mr. Carson stands by the claims.
On the Democratic side things appear far simpler, with Hillary Clinton maintaining a strong lead over her chief rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders in the primary, leading by 30 points, and drawing 60% of the Democratic vote nationwide.
But while Hillary's victory of the Democratic presidential nomination is all but sealed, a problem has emerged. As The Hill reports, Hillary's allies "are worried about one big thing: her likability problem in the general election."
As the Hill amusingly notes, "Presidential elections are often decided on personality instead of specific policies. Along those lines, people in Clinton’s orbit are worried she doesn’t pass the would-you-like-to-have-a-beer-with-her test."
It’s a test she failed against then-Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in 2008. Throughout that cycle, Clinton stressed her “35 years of experience” while Obama pitched his “hope and change” message.
The likability test came up often on the campaign trail, most notably in the last New Hampshire debate that year when Clinton acknowledged Obama is “very likable.” In a quip that may have cost him New Hampshire, Obama responded, “You’re likable enough, Hillary.”
Head-to-head 2016 matchups suggest vulnerabilities for Clinton, particularly against Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who often talks about his love of professional football.
“Her challenge remains the same as it always has been — show voters who she is and reveal the person beneath the candidate,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public policy at Princeton University. “To win people’s trust and to generate enthusiasm, she has to let some of her character come out.”
Here is one problem: Team Clinton spent a good part of 2015 highlighting the former first lady’s personality, which they call warm and effusive. Clinton aides, longtime confidants and friends have always maintained she is charming and funny, at least behind the scenes and out of the public spotlight. Clinton's allies say after years of public service — and attacks by her political opponents — she’s hesitant to let that side show.
Since Labor Day, after a New York Times story reported that Clinton would show more “humor and heart,” the candidate has made a concerted effort to highlight her lighter side.
Since then, she appeared on “Saturday Night Live” as a bartender named Val, allowed “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon to pull on her hair playfully and sat down with Lena Dunham of “Girls” fame. During those interviews and others, the former secretary of State came across as a yoga-loving woman who loves to go for long walks and keeps up with the Kardashians.
However, "Democratic strategists and even those Clinton loyalists say it’s the unplanned moments that have worked best for her." In emails released by the State Department this year, including a new batch this week, voters got to know about Clinton’s favorite shows and that she was trying to learn how to use emojis. “The carefully crafted moments to ‘let Hillary be Hillary’ almost always backfire,” the strategist said.
Here is another problem: "The Washington Post on Tuesday published a Zignal Labs word cloud that highlighted Clinton-related mentions on social media in November. The top words included “unethical,” “lies” and “corruption,” something Republicans highlighted right after its release."
The punchline:
“After all the campaign resets, carefully staged events and millions poured into TV ads, Hillary Clinton still finds herself disliked and not trusted by the American people,” said Jeff Bechdel, the communications director for America Rising, a Republican super-PAC. “That won’t change as long as new stories continue to emerge that raise questions about her private emails, questionable judgment and failed leadership.”
It is almost as if the American people can see through the programmed attempts to make Hillary the cunning apparatchik into "one of the people."
Which also is the punchline: Clinton allies fear that she has other weaknesses as well, particularly her lack of an overarching message. “If the message they’re homing in on is the ‘fighter for the middle class,’ it would help if they were more explicit about it,” said Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons.
But they are: after all why would "folksy uncle" billionaire Warren Buffett be joining as a 'campaigner for everyday Americans' Hillary Clinton as she stumps in Omaha this month?
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Hillary has a jail problem. She is running to stay put of jail. Not so much of a problem with teh corrupt and illegal Obirdbrain administration. But President Trump will prosecute her and she has zero chance to escape.
Grimaldus
OT - This is fucking hilarious. Just when you think the us government has achieved Terminal Orwell Velocity, they go ahead and melt your brain with this reprehensible fuckery-
http://www.blacklistednews.com/State_Department_%27troubled%27_by_Moscow...
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She didnt have a likability problem with Webster Hubble.
I don't know. A lot of people like to hate her. Does that count?
Oh it matters who wins.
Does 911 happen if Gore wins?
And before you jump to conclusions I voted for Bush the first time.
Does anyone think president MICCAIN would of been preferable?
Also not by any stretch an Obama fan.
I don't think I've ever been a fan of a presidential candidate and I also know the difference you will get is largely just stylistic and it many times is like holding your nose to swallow vast swaths of unacceptable cognitive dissonance on a host of issues it's truly develoved into a sort of lesser of two evils thing but lesser is still lesser.
Also know that the problems aren't all whoever is POTUS still I think it makes a difference.
Still wary that Trump will flame out after the conventions giving us a trogan horse Hillary and yet I would still vote for him at this point.
At least Gore didn't have Dick Cheney as a VP...he had Liberman.
hahahahhhooohoh
It's a good thing for Gore that he lost. Mossad could never resist a chance to put a loyal zionist like Leiberman in the white house.
I want your vote and I will Lie, Cheat and Steal for it!!!...
She really is a fucking revolting cunt
http://investmentwatchblog.com/just-leaked-look-at-hillarys-shocking-res...
Fucking here here.
I detest the cuntwads that are "for her". Stupid fucking clueless assholes - the lot of them.
I delight spitting on cars adorned with her shitty "Readly fior Hillary" decals and bumper stickers. I love verbally smacking Hillary fucktards with questions they cannot answer - and never have been able to without doing an asinine "Bush did this" shit weak rebuttal.
Stupid shits...
Jesus, you must live in a really fucked up place.
I've never even seen a Hillary bumper sticker. Not even on the handful of cars around the campus that still proudly sport their Obama logos.
We need to make American Fascism great again like in the good old days! Trump/Hillary 2016!
Deport all dark skinned people/Build a Wall/RFID in your wrist, right all you trump supporters?
Don't forget the camps. Gun confiscation from both of them etc. etc.
I don't see how it's physically possible to confiscate last black friday's total of guns yet alone the other 300 million that are already out there in America. There are not enough police and military in the entire world yet alone in the country to do that kind of job and that's assuming that they don't take heavy losses while trying or have mass refusals by grunts to participate in it. Confiscation is simply not going to happen. It would take years and tie up every resource the nation has to even attempt it.
I believe they are arrogant and dumb enough to try.
Nixon's the One, Billy.
Does anyone remember, at the height of the Lewinsky mess, the photo - on the front page of just about every paper I saw - of Hitlery and Bill walking down a 'secluded lane' at Camp David, hand in hand, while she looked up at him adoringly?
Because, after all, wouldn't any woman who found out that her husband had a 20-year old girl kneeling under his desk, tossing his salad, while supposedly working, INSTANTLY forgive him, and pose for pictures with him? I mean, I know my ex would.. er, well.. maybe not.
If the woman happens to be the wife of the President, and that position gurantees her fame, fortune and power that she could never get on her own? Then HELL YES, she would "forgive" him.
"Then HELL YES, she would "forgive" him. "
Or, there could be two other scenarios:
1 - She set him up for the fall by paying Lewinsky to "tempt" him into doing something that Hillary could hold over him forever (and show a more forgiving, personable side of a power-hungry wench)
or
2 - She was just thankful that Monica was able to keep "the Bill" off of her while she "chased more palatable opportunities".
Don't think for a minute that Bill and Hillary's relationship has anything to do with sex. This is a Mafia style crime cabal! These two recognized early on in their relationship that they could use their cumulative powers to rape the American public and fill their pockets with billions. They are pure bred psychopaths who's goal is to lie, steal, kill, enslave, rape, and destroy America. They are the slimiest of the slime.
Months ago I told you it was 1933 all over again. Some made a big deal out of me saying that candidate is Trump, even though I supported him.
Well today he said that we need to kill terrorists families.
Whoa, Donald not even Netanyahu Nazi kills them.
This guy maybe wants to lose as some have thought from the start, or he is really one fascist dude.
I thought this very thing when he first rocketed to the forefront of this year's GOP pack. Suck in the reichwing crazies then crash and burn leaving the Hillary open for a hail mary.
Or, he really is a fucking lunatic. Time will tell. Trump/Carson Trump/Cruz Bring on the theocrazy!
Here's your real world lesson for today... It's about bloodlines and revenge.
If the bloodline is gone, tell me, who gets to perform the revenge? No one, because they're fucking dead.
Standard Disclaimer: Your overthinking it, like so many people.
Its all bullshit and makes no difference who the president is. Clownshow for the masses to make them think they have the ability to control some part of the future of this country. That they have a say in how they're ruled.
Its all bullshit. Everyone should know that by know.
Sorry if this was already said,
But I thought the title of this article said
"Hillary has a LICK-ability problem".
Huma's face must be festering sore by now, poor sycophant.
Did Hillary need the Benghazi diplomatic mission destroyed and maybe even have Chris Stevens killed? Why else would the military be ordered to stand down?
Stevens was killed alongside two former Navy SEALs, Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods, and State Department computer expert Sean Smith in the Sept. 11 attack on an American diplomatic facility in Benghazi. Just weeks before his death, Doherty told ABC News he had been in Libya working with the State Department to track down thousands of dangerous surface-to-air missiles that had been looted during last year's revolution.
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/hillary-clinton-info-amb-chris-stevens-al-...
WESTMORELAND: Just to follow up on one thing about Ambassador Stevens. You got a lot of e-mails from Sidney Blumenthal. And you say that Mr. Blumenthal was a friend of yours. And he had your personal e-mail address.
You say Chris Stevens was a friend of yours. He asked numerous of times for extra protection. Now, if I had been Mr. Stevens — and I think anybody out there — anybody watching this would agree.
If I had been Mr. Stevens and I had had a relationship with you, and I had requested 20 or more times for additional security to protect not only my life but the people that were there with me, I would have gotten in touch with you some way.
I would have let you know that I was in danger, and that the situation had deteriorated to a point, I needed you to do something. Did he have your personal e-mail?
CLINTON: Congressman, I — I do not believe that he had my personal e-mail.
http://thefederalist.com/2015/10/22/hillary-i-never-gave-christopher-ste...
Chris Stevens was a dishonorable prick who was up to his eyeballs in the murder of Ghadaffi and the rape and destruction of Libya and its people. He deserved to die exactly the same way Ghadaffi did.
This just in, the "tell all" interview with Sandy Berger has been cancelled.
Hillary assured Buffet she would reject a pipeline and they would continue using the Buffet railroad to transport oil in the future.
Elect me, Skiprrrdog for president, and among other things, I will send corporate lackey Buffet packing. No pipeline, but I *will* send every single EBT card holder out to form a human bucket brigade to pass along the oil, one gallon at a time, to wherever it needs to go. I will likewise send every HFT trading criminal, all of wall street for that matter, out to clean up any oil spills with their tongues!
It truly does not matter who 'runs' this country any more. The president is only the .gov focal point for the Sheeple, someone 'they' engineer in an effort, largely successful, to manipulate us, to push us in one direction or another, lull us into complacency. But seriously, we have the most corrupt, evil, malign government imaginable. Odumbass is a clown and a buffoon to be sure, but any time spent hating on him is just wasted; he is a lawyer and a politician, what else would you expect? Trump is not a lawyer, but despite what he says now, if this country is still standing if he were to become president do any of you doubt that we will be having these same types of conversations in 2017 or 2018, about him? If so, here is your sign and you can go and wait for the short bus now. One of the main problems is that no one wants to mention the 19 trillion ton gorilla in the room, and admit that our country, as it is set up today, does not work... it is a failed experiment. Not the people, but the whole .gov ensemble. Their numbers are legion; if you took every one and attached them lips to anus (a natural position for them) they would stretch from here to Mars (maybe we could use them to make a land bridge to the Red Planet, first useful thing they ever did). This is why the actual president is a largely irrelevant consideration. Some little baby monkey who is spouting off about hope and change...all you who voted for him, how is that working out for you? My point is that despite their various claims that they will somehow be different, they are not, they never are and they never will be. *They are ALL lawyers and politicians*. That would be like taking a cancer cell, and believing that you could use it to make a normal, healthy human.
Seventy years of consistent domestic and foreign policy fucking the country and fucking the world. But, this NEXT President will make it all better. All the while (s)he simply builds upon the foundation of the previous puppet.
My point...on some level they are prepped and enabled by the very system they claim to serve. Any converstaion about the system is time wasting and non-productive, because the system is like one giant, malign and self replicating cancer cell. How does medical science treat cancer...they cut it out. Only way.
Agree with most of what you said except: "and admit that our country, as it is set up today, does not work... it is a failed experiment. Not the people, but the whole .gov".
The reason that the experiment failed is because of the people. We vote them in, then fail to hold them accountable. So they carry on driving the country into the ground, in exchange for campaign contributions.
Well, right, but unfortunately you have to have some people running it. The system is set up so that no matter how egregious their behaviour, they get away with it (think ObooBoo) Campaign contributions, lobbying groups, all part of the problem. And it is not just the potus, but all the other players as well, congress, the senate, all designed to fail, and they do. Too complicated, too big, too powerful. Time for small fixes or patches is long past, they dont work either. I dont know what the answer is, but there has to be one.
Likability problem? How kind. More like a treasonous despicability problem.
I'm writing in RANDY QUAID.
Fuck all this Kabuki. AND, I am going to load up on the Mexican food pre-write in, and FART all through the process, leaving a pleasant Tijuana scent in the League of Women Voters wake.......
Ai CarUMBA~
Alex Jones interviewd Donald Trump today! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuPChaJmUw8
I don't think Hillary Clinton would agre to an interview with Alex Jones.
She'd make a decent throw rug though.
If elected President, I hereby promise to appoint Hillary Clinton Ambassador to Libya.
And said appointment shall be mandatory.
Well, as much as I think that Trump would suck as POTUS, I still like him because he is just so.... unfiltered (for lack of a better word).
I think that is nominated, he will name Cruz as his VP. That would be as good a ticket as you can expect from the RINO meddlers who have taken over the "R" end of the dichotomy. Now, would that force Hillary to select Bernie as her VP to counter the populist vote?
Trump might pick a totally non Republican club associated person. Someone who knows their shit but isn't in the good old boys club. That would make sense.
Hitlery doesn't have a "likeability" problem. She has dis-likability problem......
She also doesn't have a trust problem. She has a dis-trust problem.....
She doesn't have character issues. She has bad character issues...
Bill doesn't have faith problems. He is un-faithful....
Hitlery doesn't have a "likeability" problem. She has dis-likability problem......
She also doesn't have a trust problem. She has a dis-trust problem.....
She doesn't have character issues. She has bad character issues...
Bill doesn't have faith problems. He is un-faithful....
Representatives from video sharing website YouTube and parent company Google have met with a high-ranking Israeli official to discuss ways in which “inflammatory material” can be censored on the web.
http://m.sputniknews.com/middleeast/20151202/1031080036/youtube-cahoots-...
In other words - the ongoing illegal occupation and quotidian murders of palestinian by idf faggots and racist supremacist jew settlers.
http://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2014-02-11/aussie-tv-dares-to-show-the...
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=75c_1449001183
How often is israel in the news?
How often does it cover the Occupation?
Exactly, but then the Zionists are attacked ng liberty and free speech all over the west - defenders of israel right or wrong who seem to prefer living as a privileged minority in the us and canada and france than moving to their (lol) 'homeland.' Lol.
Yep another day, another effort by zionism to criminalize truth
http://youtu.be/J1bm2GPoFfg
Like the memory holing of bin laden and khalid m. Citing us support for israel and uts ocupation as motive
Nope. Us policy must be subservirnt to world jewry's zionist dream- if it means americans die from a freelance terrorist working for cia or mossad, hey - theyre not jews, its fieyin.
What?
"To win people’s trust and to generate enthusiasm, she has to let some of her character come out.”
Really? I would have said just the opposite.
Agreed. I've read "Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it". Does Benghazi bring anything to mind?
I'll just leave this here......
Trump Live on Alex Jones: http://www.infowars.com/show/
Hillary psycopathic charm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yn6yktWU5qA
Lies, lying, more lies, still lying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbnKGopT0Uc
https://youtu.be/qNyUz08mtBg?t=4m35s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btgLIgPKYsE
The American Population will Elect H. Clinton. what ever it takes.
Then the greed will really start removing rights and freedoms.......Oh.....Squirel
LIKE ABILITY? WHO CAN LIKE A STRIKING RATTLESNAKE, WHO CAN LIKE AN ATTACKING GRIZZLEY, WHO CAN GET CLOSE TO A MAFIA HITMAN, WHO CAN WARM UP TO A REAR UP SKUNK, WHO WOULD STOOP TO KISS A SLIMY SLUG, WHO COULD LIKE A MURDERING, LYING, BLOODTHIRSTY HILLARY?
On weekends many years ago (during and after medical school) I often went to the northern Virginia section of the Blue Ridge Mountains - which is actualy one very narrow ridge extending from Virginia to North Carolina. (A federal national park since the 1930's, when the gov't forced people off their land there.) The forest and wildlife returned, among the latter: deer, bears and RATTLESNAKES !!! (As a Civil War buff my entire life, I often looked for evidence use during the Civil War - dirt roads at important gaps abandoned long ago, stone artillery platforms (long buried under 100 years of accumulated dirt, leaves, new-growth trees and the remains of old houses. (Anything found would be marked, then later reported to the Park Rangers.)
Among interesting incidents:
1.) literally bumping into a BLACK BEAR (which are brown) face-to-face - while hacking though a "wall" of dense grapes vines. He ran away up a steep slope faster than I ever thought possible!
2.) So many deer that not worth any dertails.
3.) Sitting down on a large rock to rest, then noticing a huge rattlesnake on the ground about 2 feet away from my leg. (They often change colors as skins are shed. This one looked like a 100-year old, worn and weathered biclycle tire - mostly black with streaks of white, etc. But bicycle tires seldom rattle!
4.) Walking through an on old home site's foundation of scattered field stones, spotting an old brownish belt without its buckle. But belts for men's pants also seldom rattle! And my hand was about 6 inches away when its eyes moved and the rattling began.
I very slowing managed to back away, then relized I was in a "snake nest" as the rattling was all around me. (They love to warm themselves on stones heated by the Sun.)
I was never bitten (although my "snake boots" up my thighs took a number of hits.
Luckily, during my life I NEVER met HILLARY CLINTON - although I have several chances when Bill campaigned in Hew Hampshire and I was then living in Massachusetts.
I would prefer the SNAKES and BEAR over HILLARY any day!!!!!
Using "dislike" is a rather large understatement.
Gee, who would have thought people don't like a shrill,old,corrupt,lying,cankled bitch? This is really surprising
>> Clinton allies fear that she has other weaknesses as well, particularly her lack of an overarching message.
Oh I disagree - Hillary has sent at least one very clear message - that step #1 is to disarm the American people. She just hasn't been very clear about what step #2 is.
"So we just have to rewrite the Hillary program, make the machine appear less corrupt and more likable. We will give her a $750 hair cut at Nordstroms in NYC, and then have her stand next to the wealthiest guy in the country (who plays by investing rules that make Goldman Sachs envious) -- that will make her appear like a regular Joe/Jane!"
Who comes up with this sh!t? And how do they convince themselves of such complete nonsense? Do you have to have a full lobotomy or can you just do a massive amount of hallucinogenic drugs?
Anyone willing to vote for or tolerate a human predator as transparently nasty, viscous, dishonest and diabolical as Hitlery, is terminally insane... or a fellow psycho-predator.
American Vote is a joke and freak show.None of these runnurs are fit for the position, by now a rat can be put in the white house and the country will be better than these corporate pupets.Coz the rat willn't listen to any influence.