2016 Postmortem

SwampG8r

(10,287 posts) Fri Feb 12, 2016, 12:15 PM Feb 2016

Is it true

That HRC has never had long term polling data that shows her having an increase in support?
I have read here she always has hivh numbers to start but they never increase over time and in fact decrease significantly as time passes.
Is this true and how.do.we.expect to.win a ge with a cantidate who loses support with scrutiny?

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Is it true (Original Post) SwampG8r Feb 2016 OP

Lawrence O'Donnell said that after the last debate. Motown_Johnny Feb 2016 #1

That... daleanime Feb 2016 #2

That reality will cause her to lose the GE... TCJ70 Feb 2016 #3

It's technically true, but she's only had 1 really contested election jeff47 Feb 2016 #4

Motown_Johnny

(22,308 posts)

1. Lawrence O'Donnell said that after the last debate.

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 12:19 PM

Feb 2016

I can neither confirm nor deny it's accuracy, but nobody has challenged him on that claim (to the best of my knowledge).

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daleanime

(17,796 posts)

2. That...

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 12:24 PM

Feb 2016

is kind of scary.

TCJ70

(4,387 posts)

3. That reality will cause her to lose the GE...

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 12:28 PM

Feb 2016

...the Republicans did a good job with portraying her as untrustworthy. The unfortunate thing is that she then proved it.

jeff47

(26,549 posts)

4. It's technically true, but she's only had 1 really contested election

Reply to SwampG8r (Original post)

Fri Feb 12, 2016, 12:28 PM

Feb 2016

The 2008 primary.

Her first Senate run technically had an opponent, but he was pretty damn bad at statewide campaigning. The guy who was supposed to run against her got indicted.

Her second Senate run had an even less popular Republican run against her.

So while it's technically true, we don't really have a very large "sample" of campaigns.

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