A recent Quinnipiac poll shows 67% of the people find Clinton "not honest and trustworthy,"

[Cal33]

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59% of the people find Trump "not honest and trustworthy." This shows that more people
trust Trump than Clinton!

The same poll shows 68% of the people find Bernie Sanders "honest and trustworthy."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/sanders-won-michigan-because-hes-honest_b_9416226.html

[PoliticAverse]

1. The polls I've seen though still show Trump with higher negatives than Clinton. n/t

[tk2kewl]

4. woo hoo...

lesser of 2 evils...

[Cal33]

9. Yes, it looks to be that way.

[Attorney in Texas]

10. When voters dislike both candidates, Democrats stay home and Republicans hold their nose and vote

[Cal33]

15. Yes, there probably is a higher degree of apathy among Democrats than Republicans. It's

something that we have to deal with on a long-term basis.

[Cal33]

12. Maybe Clinton has caught up with Trump by now?

[yourout]

2. She did not help her cause when she went after Bernie on the TARP vote.

Or as she called it "The automotive bailout".

When you have a trust issue with the voters you probably should not blatantly lie/distort your opponent in a debate.

[BillZBubb]

3. Well then 67% are pretty good judges of character.

The other 33%, not so much.

[disillusioned73]

6. I think I know..

where that 33% reside here on DU..

[Cal33]

11. Maybe many of the other 33% think and feel pretty much the way she does? You know, birds of

feather.....

[Jarqui]

5. Last November it was 60%

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/11/new-poll-shows-60-of-americans-think-hillary-clinton-is-untrustworthy-and-dishonest.html

I guess that it does to show that if a politician keeps lying that that number at 60% can get worse.

When the GOP get done with her. should she survive the primary, I'm sure they can push it over 70% with all the dishonest stuff they'd have in the can for her already.


Is Hillary Clinton authentic enough for voters?

Large majority doesn’t trust Clinton
Voters seek empathy, consistency, trust
Flip flopping undermines candidates

Liar. Dishonest. Untrustworthy.

Those were the top words people used to describe Hillary Clinton in a recent survey. That’s political Kryptonite, because to get elected president, voters have to believe you’re authentic. If a candidate can’t meet the three tests of authenticity – empathy, consistency and trust – they rarely win. Among recent presidents, only Richard Nixon, once labeled as Tricky Dick and lampooned in a poster asking, “Would you buy a used car from this man,” managed to win without meeting the standards.

Convincing people you’ve got the qualities of authenticity is critical, because voters are picking not only a head of government but also the head of state. “We are voting for essentially our national symbol,” said Scott Huffmon, director of the Winthrop University Poll in Rock Hill, S.C.

The challenge for candidates such as Clinton is particularly important among young voters, keenly skeptical of stereotypical politicians and more wary of the political establishment. Someone born in the 1980s or later has only known a federal government and a political system marred by congressional gridlock, an impeached president and highly unpopular wars.

“Authenticity is huge” with younger voters, said Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, director of CIRCLE, which studies youth voting trends. It’s not simply a matter of candor and approachability.
....

Authenticity matters, said Winthrop’s Huffmon. “People don’t tend to understand policy in a very deep fashion,” he said. “Leadership is very much about trust.”

Hillary has a big problem that makes it very difficult for her to win the White House - if she survives the primary. Her only hope is the GOP nominate someone people hate or distrust more.

[Cal33]

13. It's great that authenticity is important to the young people -- a good prognostication that

future governance will be more honest and sound than it is now. It would be even greater
for today if young people would also turn out to vote for Bernie in droves.

[leveymg]

7. Last night CNN stated that number is 80percent among Independents

And Indies are by far the largest voting bloc nationwide.

[kenfrequed]

8. I can't believe I am going to say this...

But that actually might be an overall improvement for her.

[Le Taz Hot]

14. No candidate in the history of politics

has ever won a seat with those negatives. And I love how the blind party loyalists continue to whistle past the graveyard here. It's why we have to get Bernie the nomination otherwise it WILL be President Trump. The prols are no longer going to share in their demise.

[Cal33]

16. I can think of one who is worse and still got to be president. Bush, Jr.! Of course

he did not much, if anything effective to get there. His family and family friends did
most of the work, and sort of presented the gift to him.

[Le Taz Hot]

17. Do you have the numbers for that?

[Cal33]

18. I have read many stories relating to Bush Jr.'s personality years ago when he was in

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the first term of his presidency. I simply googled "Bush and Psychopathy" I tried it
again today, about a dozen years later, and managed to find one. Bush was a student
at Harvard, he lied before the whole class. The professor, a Japanese citizen, was there.
At the end of the class Bush denied that he had made a statement he had made before
the whole class just a few minutes earlier. (A totally unnecessary lie, it was, too).
The professor was a Japanese citizen, and he remained one.

Years later when Jr. was running for the presidency, this professor made the special effort
to become an American citizen, because he intended to do his best to prevent Bush
from becoming president. As a foreigner he carried no weight, but as a US citizen, he'd
have more clout.

The professor simply couldn't accept the idea that such a liar should be allowed to run
for president of the US, and he did his best to prevent it from happening, but, of course,
he failed.

I'm glad I found a link after all these years. It wasn't the same link, but the main
story is there.

http://www.salon.com/2004/09/16/tsurumi/

[Jitter65]

19. They must troll here. nt

[Takket]

20. oh... but please...

do keep going on about how Hillary is the best choice because she is the most electable. She isn't even trusted by many of her own party, how is she going to play with Indies?