"Hillary Clinton is totally beatable in a general election. Just not by Donald Trump or Ted Cruz."
Take two minutes to flip through the new NBC-Wall Street Journal poll and you are left with two very clear takeaways:
1. Hillary Clinton is deeply vulnerable in a general election.
2. Donald Trump and, to a lesser extent, Ted Cruz, are the exact wrong candidates to take advantage of Clinton's weaknesses.
Start with this: Just one in three (32 percent) of general election voters see Clinton in a positive light while 56 percent regard her negatively. That's Clinton's worst score since NBC-WSJ started asking about Clinton's image in early 2001.
And, the NBC-WSJ numbers are far from an outlier. Her numbers -- particularly when it comes to the number of people who view her as "honest" and "trustworthy" have long been in net negative territory -- and the ongoing questions surrounding her private email server while serving as Secretary of State doesn't help matters. The simple fact is that Clinton is totally known by the general electorate and somewhere between mildly and strongly disliked by a majority of them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/18/hillary-clinton-is-totally-beatable-in-a-general-election-just-not-by-donald-trump-or-ted-cruz/?hpid=hp_special-topic-chain_hillary-fix-1210pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
Hillary's favorability ratings have been consistently low for at least the past year, yet she is somehow the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination. Dems should be thankful that if she is the nominee she'll likely face an equally (if not more) unpopular candidate.
