Is Hillary Clinton Likable Enough to Beat Donald Trump?

[FreakinDJ]

Don't worry Clinton Supporters, the article goes on to say Hillary would beat Drumph - but the question I would have asked is "What amount of Political Clout will Hillary have should she be elected in opposition to a GOP House and Senate"

With numbers like those it is more of a hold your nose and vote election and once in office the only thing in Washington more popular then Hillary herself would be taking shots at her

In the Democratic debate this week in Miami a reporter from the Washington Post asked Hillary Clinton a blunt question. Citing a poll result that only 37 percent of Americans consider her honest and trustworthy, the journalist asked, “Is there anything in your own actions and the decisions that you yourself have made that would foster this kind of mistrust?”


Clinton looked pained and responded with some emotion. “Look, I have said before and it won’t surprise anybody to hear me say it, this is not easy for me ... not a natural politician, in case you haven’t noticed, like my husband or President Obama. So I have a view that I just have to do the best I can, get the results I can, make a difference in people’s lives, and hope that people see that I’m fighting for them.”


It was a poignant moment. After a quarter-century on the national stage, Clinton can no longer console herself that voters just haven’t gotten to know her yet. They know her very well, and a solid, unmovable mass of them simply do not like her. The battering she has taken over her use of a private email server as secretary of state and the pseudo-scandal regarding the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi have reinforced the belief that she is less than truthful. Averaging various polls, her favorable/unfavorable rating now hovers at around 40–53. A 13-point negative gap in favorability would bode badly, were she not facing the prospect of a likely Republican nominee with a 28-point gap.


http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2016/03/is_hillary_clinton_likable_enough_to_beat_donald_trump.html

[Chan790]

1. Honestly...

Hillary Clinton isn't likeable enough to be able to put any space between herself and an old man who doesn't comb his hair and yells a lot about economic injustice. (And I like Sanders a lot.)

She's chum against Trump.

[FreakinDJ]

6. Her "honest and trustworthy" rating would feed the RATpubliCON spin machine

on virtually every policy she tries to promote.

Yes a president has a "Bully Pulpit" but as we have seen for all too many years (and complained about here on DU) when RATpubliCONs are united in their talking points it can and will drown out the bully pulpit

[peacebird]

2. No.

[timlot]

3. What if she put Bernie on the ticket.

Probably her best shot. She could just sit back and let him do his rallies and ride the wave to the Whitehouse.

[great white snark]

4. Yes.

That is all.

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Likeable? That's very questionable.

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Electable? Maybe.