Trigger Warning: This post is an examination about how disliked the Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are. This is not meant as an attack on Clinton, rather it will hopefully shed some light one the many problems Clinton faces in November. (Thanks to anonymous for this idea.)
It’s like Cersei Lannister v Ramsay Bolton. As Senator Sasse says, “There are dumpster fires in my town more popular than these two ‘leaders.’ ”
David Weigel writes:
If the rise of Trump has no obvious precedent, neither does an election like this. Clinton, whose buoyant favorable ratings in the State Department convinced some Democrats that she could win easily, is now viewed as unfavorably as George W. Bush was in his close 2004 reelection bid. Trump is even less liked, with negative ratings among nonwhite voters not seen since the 1964 campaign of Barry Goldwater.
“In the history of polling, we’ve basically never had a candidate viewed negatively by half of the electorate,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) wrote in a widely shared note that asked someone, anyone, to mount a third-party run. “There are dumpster fires in my town more popular than these two ‘leaders.’ ”
According to RealClearPolitics averages, Trump has an unfavorable rating of 65 percent. Clinton has 55 percent.
Clinton supporters can lament all they want, however Clinton is despised by a large portion of the electorate, even if you don’t know it.
You wouldn’t know it from talking to each candidate’s supporters, who see only one reality — they hate the other choice — and who seem oblivious that much of the nation is defining this election by watching with dismay and deciding whether to bother to participate.
“Everybody likes her,” said Pamela Hatwood, 51, a nurse on disability leave who was fanning herself with an extra Clinton sign in a sweltering gym in Indianapolis last week — one of many supporters who shrugged off questions about whether Clinton’s appeal was too narrow.
“I think she’s such a strong woman that people get afraid,” said Stephen Yanusheskhy, 40, a health insurance salesman. “I’m not worried about the polls. They’re good one week, they’re bad the next week. I feel like they poll the people they want to get a certain result. But once she actually gets the nomination, people will come out in droves. You’ll see more involvement from the gay community, from women and from people of color.”
If you live in Hillaryland, do you continue to stick your head in the sand? Or do you work on a way to get Hillary to change her numbers? How do you do this?