50 Percent of Voters Won't Vote for Hillary
Posted Mar 28th 2007 9:52AM by Patrick Casey
Filed under: President 2008, Democrats, Polls, Hillary Clinton
A new Harris Poll conducted from March 6th to the 14th by Harris Interactive of 2,223 adults showed that a full 50% of respondents would not vote for Hillary Clinton for president, no matter the situation. An analysis, complete with all poll questions and responses, is here.
This jives with polls that have been taken on the senator over the past few years that show her disapproval rating ranging from 46% to 49%. That's a very difficult number to overcome, and whatever Hillary is doing now isn't helping, apparently. If she tacks left, as she will have to in order to win the Democrat presidential nomination, her overall disapproval rating will climb. And when she tacks to the right after winning the nomination (if she does), it will seem fake to the majority of the nation -- and her liberal base will desert her.
At that point she'll be relying not on herself but on the media to destroy her Republican opponent, giving the voters the "lesser of two evils" option. As most of the Democrat media is already bought and paid for by the Clintons, this is probably what Hillary hopes for, with numbers like these.
Unlike her husband Bill, Hillary is just not likable. It has nothing to do with being a woman, although for the most part she does remind men of their mothers-in-law, and women of the chicks that back-stabbed them on the way to the top. She lies continuously, to the point where it is difficult if not impossible for her media friends to hide it or cover for her anymore. Hence you now have another media darling, Barack Obama -- and the Clintons are seething.
Gone are the days when a candidate like Richard Nixon could get elected despite being unlikable. Unfortunately for Hillary, her husband ushered in a new era in presidential politics: electability being charisma and likability more than substance. It's always been that way to a certain extent. But never more so than today. That's one of the reasons why I don't think that the two current leaders on the Republican side, John McCain and Rudy Giuliani, will make it to the end -- although Rudy, even with his baggage, is more likely to than McCain.
On the Democrat side, however, the more the campaigns seem to develop, the more it seems like the past few years has been a political and financial chess match for the Clintons against everyone else, with Hillary the predestined winner.
But what about the rest of the country?
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