Hillary's Lead Disintegrates: She Is Now Doing Worse Than In 2008, As Trump Surges
Just when Hillary Clinton thought her political fiascoes would be the worst of her ongoing troubles as she glides through the Democrat primaries, and then takes on Trump sure to find a Warren Buffett-funded victory, suddenly everything appears to have gone wrong in what is most important to the scandal-ridden former Secretary of State and presidential contender: her second - and final - campaign for president.
According to WaPo, if one compares where Clinton is now in the Real Clear Politics polling average, the 2016 picture and the 2008 picture aren't really all that similar; in fact suddenly the trapdoor beneath Hillary appears to have sprung open. "Nationally, she was doing much better in 2008 than she is right now, perhaps in part because the anti-Clinton vote in 2008 was still split between two people -- Barack Obama and John Edwards -- instead of just one. But that recent trend line, a function of two new national polls that were close after a bit of a lull, is not very good news."
Not surprisingly, Clinton is trailing badly in New Hampshire, which is the home turf of her main socialist opponent. In 2008,
What little silver lining exists, is that in Iowa, Hillary is running a little better than she did in 2008, although as seen on the chart below even here her lead has plunged recently. In 2008 it wasn't until the last week that she fell out of the lead. She eventually came in third.
The problem remains the national race, and what's worse, if the 2008 past is prologue and if Hillary's lead in Iowa evaporates and she loses, it may be the end for the former first lady: back then she lost three-quarters of her lead after the caucuses although she did gain some of it back after her win in New Hampshire.
And while these numbers can easily change, one person who is certain to capitalize on Hillary's sudden collapse is Donald Trump, who as we showed recently has become the bookmakers' favorite after trailing badly as recently as September, even as Trump's republican competitors drop like flies on their own, the most recent casualty being Ben Carson whose campaign is all but over following news from CNN that Carson's campaign finance chairman Dean Parker submitted his resignation.
Finally, moments ago the WSJ reported that Donald Trump has opened a double-digit lead over his next-closest Republican rival, less than three weeks before the first votes of the 2016 presidential race are cast, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll finds.
A third of Republican primary voters in the nationwide survey said they favored Mr. Trump to be the GOP nominee, followed by Texas Sen. Ted Cruz at 20% support, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio at 13% and retired pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 12%.
In December, Mr. Trump had led the No. 2 candidate, Mr. Cruz, by 5 percentage points. In the new poll, his lead widened to 13 points.
And so what was considered humor by most pundits as recently as last summer is becoming an all too possible reality: president Trump?
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Hillary's got a beautiful ankle bracelet which doubles as a boat anchor.
It's called a "cankle bracelet" or "cankle shackle."
Canklet
Now you wouldn't be think'n of dumping that skag into the sea - would ya ? Think of da fishes, think of the environ"mental" damages . A pale icon to da sharks, I tell ya .
OTOH, no one would come near your lost precious - boat'n accident an all .
The problem with sending Bill and Chelsea out on the attack is that nothing can cover up years of manipulation and lawlessness by Hillary. She has even resorted to borrowing/stealing Bernie's ideas!
So, Repulicans in Iowa should register as Democrats, skip the Republican caucus and vote for Bernie in the Democrat caucus? Wouldn't hurt the Republicans. Democrats take Iowa in the end anyway.
Theme Song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQLQ1Rc_Js
Your choices are Trump who is clearly a bubble or two off plomb, or worse Cruz or Rubio.
Vs. Clinton or a guy who might be half decent but is way too old.
How in the heck does Clinton get the nod from her party except that she is a soulless, ambitious, lying tool for wall street, an Israel firster and a woman? A question that answers itself.
Exceptionalism you say?
What do you expect us to do?
Trudeau was already taken.
What's made our US Partners on Z/H so Cynical? Sarc
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED TO SYRIA??
Not a peep out of there in almost 2 weeks...Russia must be thumping some skulls and have ran the USsA SpecOps out of town.....
Was thinking the same thing... My watch says that we're due for another dust-up-in-the-Donbass, the South China Sea, Aleppo, or all 3...
russiadefencenet
military guys there
Jihadis under serious pressure from Syrian Army/R+6. Very close to breaking along broad fronts. Turkish border could be sealed up tight within 8 weeks, at that point it's game over for the goons, they'll have to regroup in Libya, then it's North Africa's problem. Syria could be rebuilding by next summer (barring an nwo wildcard... remember they never quit).
http://turcopolier.typepad.com/sic_semper_tyrannis/2016/01/httpsyriadire...
http://syrianperspective.com/
https://www.youtube.com/user/crimeanfront/videos
Maybe they could get some good shipping rates from Turkey to Libya . I hear tht they got a few ships about .
Dupped
Hillary beats Trump? It would be laughable if it wasn't so rediculous a statement.
Hillary is too unhealthy to make it thru a campaign. Do a face read on her - haggard.
Not Merle?
It's going to take a lot of Summer's Eve to wash this stink away.
The part that bothers me is the Dems know that neither Hitlery or Bernie"The Burn" Sanders have a hope in hell. there are no Dem debates or whatever. they are clearly not trying. Biden said no and Gore would do better than her, but he is nowhere to be found. It's as if they don't want to win, like something wicked this way comes, and they want to steer clear.
Exactly. Trump even said he's afraid of what's coming, & hopes it happens before election day. But I think TPTB will wait til he's in before pulling the plug.
Finally a positive piece on ZH! :)
TOAST!!!! WOOOOOO HOOOOO!
Hildebeest shat herself at the last debate, and was late because she needed the bathroom cleared of others to clean up and put on a new pair of depends.
She's evil through and through. Her body count and graft are legion.
She gets no support, no crowds. She and her family are mocked everywhere. She's an abomination.
Yet, I fear the magic of diebold will annoint her.
LOL bookofenoch - here I am LOL at your post. These are dark days indeed . . .
Can somebody answer something...?
How in the Bloody Hell can a salt-of-the-Earth people like those from Iowa, cast their lot with this ---- 'Thing' called Clinton in the first place...?
No, we don't want Hillary. And tell that Debbie Whatadip-shitz that we don't want Hillary, I don't think she got the message.
Will no one rid me of this meddlesome ex-First Lady-Senator-Secretary of State? PLEASE?
Careful there, your classical education is showing.
Trump loves making deals. So what do you think he'll do when Jamie Dimon walks into his office...
Trump is richer than Jamie Dimon, so he'll show him the door...
Lloyd Blankfein needs an attitude adjustment.
But if they can both become even richer at the same time, then why not?
Kerrching. Tramp is as solvent as the Fed, and the .gov
He will do a deal which suits them both most. That is his raison d'etre. Everything else is show business,, all the better to schmooze the disaffected Americans and then screw them.
You're preaching to the choir. I was just having fun with you.
As per usual ;-)
Your fired !
That will do for now .
But don't you want to find out if a nation can be run from a jail cell?
Cool! Scuttle the Skank, then cage the HildaBEAST...
GO TRUMP!
Yep. Go to his money lenders, Israel, and do their bidding.
You've been had, again.
The Donald is a pure protest vote against the current ruling class. We are going to beat the dems like a drum, doesnt matter who they put up. The post menapausal battle axe is finished. The Donald group is simply fired up and will vote come hell or high water. Never seen so much hell bent to leather, foaming at the mouth will to win in a group of people. Will we vote? Are you fucking kidding?
We used to hide, speak in hushed tones our support for Donald. Not any more. We are now very vocal, and dont give a shit who is listening.
Debates, MSM, elites, who gives a fuck about them. As Have said before they have overplayed their hand and are very exposed. The hatchet jobs simply do not work anymore.
The Halley speach was disgusting and shows that the elites are panicked and therfore capable of anything.
This is some of the best entertainment ever. Great time to be alive.
Share it, Cap'n Drake!
Do not vote. The world might then think that the USA is a friend, true to the Constitution, instead of a batshit crazy bunch of indebted fools who lick the jackboot.
Tramp puts Israel first, his money lenders. He is insolvent with more bankrupt companies than profitable ones. He owes them, and he puts them first. You are being scammed.
The USA and the world deserves better. If you vote, then you give the batshit crazies license to bail out themselves with your money and blood; permanent war, and bank bail ins.
Don't do it.
No sympathy for the devil; the killers of the old world and the new:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8
That man of wealth and 'taste' who killed Jesus Christ, the Czar, his military, kings and queens, and the Kennedys.
Don't do it.
What's puzzling you is the nature of the game...
What's puzzling you is the nature of the lyrics.
It was the Czar and his MINISTERS, not his military.
Pure protest?
I want what you're smoking if you seriously think he's going to 'fire' his bankster cronies that helped him build his empire.
Take a moment to think about that, FFS.
More kabuki theater.
The fact is Herr Hilary has the banks and the majority of the Democratic party insiders AKA the Mossad Ready Reserve ready to vote for her nomination.
She might be the only person MORE blackmailed than Obama in terms of controlling the presidency.
Between her 10,000 skeleton closets, all you have to do is tweak her thyroid meds and she is certifiably bi-polar ready, willing and able to fly-off on any topic for any reason.
Obama is proof of what is possible in politics. Pure Manchurian Candidate.
She is a huge heaving beast ready to be unleashed upon Americans that remember what dignity actually meant and her presidency easily allows another eight years of wholesale raping of Amerika.
She is the ultimate political plunge protection team.
Trump might fill stadiums and twitter feeds but he too does not have enough delegate votes. Does he buy some? Maybe. But not enough. Trump makes about $1 billion running this campaign - win or lose.
But the grim fact is popular votes cast in primaries do not guarantee a primary victory and a party nomination.
Trump, like Perot, is set to divide "the conservative base." He gets insulted by the GOP, goes independent, splits the vote and Hillary waltz into Armageddon.
Yes Bernie will get some headlines, but Google in monitoring the worldwide discussion and campaign in real time.
The entire GOP campaign engine might as well be running for student council president compared to what Google brings to the table - it is the table.
America wants an underdog and the Googleplex will produce one when it is appropriate.
American politics.
If they want your opinion, they'll give it to you.
Great post bankonzhongguo. You really drive home the horror of the situation. "In in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow" -- Ecclesiastes 1:18
If Hilary is elected the U.S.A. will become, during her reign, a hollowed-out, defeated and occupied empire. A country in transition to something worse. I will prepare accordingly. And yes, if people knew what was on my mind from day-to-day they would consider me fucking nuts.
I boil it down to this and roll it into a pill that I take each morning - so as not to forget.
I know this is a little off topic, but could not resist. (Credit to original poster)
State of the Union 2016
Some things from Obamas' speech, last night, remained out of sight.
Smilingly, he assured us all our future's safe and bright.
But we all broke down laughing and slapping at our knee,
When the fool began bragging about his sorry legacy.
The Hope and Change he promised us, we depended on a lot,
But more welfare recipients, is all we ever got.
Adding over eight trillion dollars to the national debt
Is something, obviously, he hopes we'll soon forget.
Obamacare subsidies, for some were very fair,
But for all the rest of us, we're pulling out our hair.
And coming into our country is as easy as a breeze,
Since our borders are as porous as a piece of old, Swiss cheese.
So if you missed his speech, last night, because of such and such,
There's a high probability that you didn't miss very much.
Let me start with the economy, and a basic fact: the United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world. We’re in the middle of the longest streak of private-sector job creation in history. More than 14 million new jobs; the strongest two years of job growth since the ‘90s; an unemployment rate cut in half. Our auto industry just had its best year ever. Manufacturing has created nearly 900,000 new jobs in the past six years. And we’ve done all this while cutting our deficits by almost three-quarters. Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.