From the Daily Telegraph

[SheenaR]

Who has leaned conservative over time, but has come much more to the middle in this century.

Headline: While Trump and Sanders smell victory, Hillary Clinton contemplates humiliation

Hillary Clinton is running on one issue: Hillary Clinton. Unfortunately, very few Americans like Hillary Clinton

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/donald-trump/12147434/Hillary-Clinton-is-fighting-for-her-political-life-in-New-Hampshire.html

Don't kill the messenger. It doesn't have to be Americans that can see the obvious.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Ouch!

[Red Oak]

2. That's not gonna grow back

[SheenaR]

3. I will disagree

with the premise that few Americans like her. She does have a large group of Americans who do like and admire her. I will agree with most of the other parts.

[Motown_Johnny]

4. I like her but I don't trust her and I don't support her. n/t

[corkhead]

5. "very few Americans like Hillary Clinton" - in fact, it may only be about 1%

[EdwardBernays]

6. the best bits

Nevertheless, her underwhelming performance is a sad indictment of what a poor candidate she is. Consider her advantages: money, endorsements, running against an aging socialist who wasn’t even a Democrat until recently, a career full accomplishment and major brand recognition. The problem with Hillary is that the voters know her too well: a majority of voters don’t trust her. Her narrow win in Iowa showed the depths of resentment towards her coronation, while defeat in New Hampshire – the state that rescued her in 2008 from immediate annihilation by Barack Obama – would make matters so much worse.

She is playing from a very old playbook. Take the appearance of a tired, wan Bill Clinton on the campaign trail – attacking Bernie Sanders in the deeply personal way that he once did Barack Obama. Or consider, Hillary’s aggressive courting of the female vote. Her politics is the politics of identity, narrowed down to a very specific constituency: she’s selling herself as the hope of everyday rich white women who want to be president. Out came Madeleine Albright, who tastelessly said that there was a special place in Hell for women who don’t back Hillary. The combination of these two themes – feminism and Bill Clinton – is uncomfortable.

[mhatrw]

8. Yep. Her two constituencies are boomer women who are comfortable with the establishment,

and those who have been brainwashed by corporate media into being too frightened to vote for "socialist" Sanders, even though they prefer his stances on the issues.

She has forged an uneasy coalition between the comfortable and cowardly.

[EdwardBernays]

9. And African Americans

I've had some disturbing conversations on DU where some Dem African Americans basically say "yeah she's crooked, but so what - people call us crooked so that just makes us like her more".

Not even sure wtf to say to that.

[mhatrw]

10. I don't believe that crap for a minute. Clinton's supposed popularity among African Americans

is a product of the fact that the first 2 primary states are very white and all of us in the later primary states are relatively low information voters.

[EdwardBernays]

11. I literally

have had a few conversations on here where African Americans have said - literally - that the reason they're voting for Hillary is that she has more black staffers... full stop.

I just hope they're radical Clinton folks and that that's not a more generalised attitude.

[mhatrw]

12. There is a subset of political animals who view politics solely as a vehicle for personal patronage.

The Clintons are incredibly popular among that subset. All they know is "pay to play" and "mutual back scratching". so if that is your game, then you speak the same language.

[EdwardBernays]

13. I may

post the entire conversation... as an OP... it's just pretty eye-opening...

[mhatrw]

7. VOTE FOR MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

"All I am saying is give MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE a chance."

[muriel_volestrangler]

14. I dispute "much more to the middle" for the Torygraph, and especially Tim Stanley

see eg http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5702638