2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSanders Surges, Clinton Sags in U.S. Favorability
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders' favorable rating among Americans has doubled since Gallup's initial reading in March, rising to 24% from 12% as he has become better known. Hillary Clinton's rating has slipped to 43% from 48% in April. At the same time, Clinton's unfavorable rating increased to 46%, tilting her image negative and producing her worst net favorable score since December 2007.
Hillary Clinton, Recent Favorability Trend
Sanders' increased favorability reflects the broader increase in the public's familiarity with him since March. Overall, 44% of Americans are able to rate him today, up from 24% in March. Not only has the percentage viewing him favorably increased, but also the percentage viewing him unfavorably has risen, up eight percentage points to 20%.
Clinton's Inauspicious Rivals
Clinton maintains a higher absolute favorable rating from Americans than any of her official rivals for the 2016 Democratic nomination. In contrast to the relative prominence of numerous candidates on the Republican side, she remains the only Democratic candidate known well enough by a majority of Americans for them to rate her, which helps Clinton maintain a higher overall favorable score.
Sanders is still an unknown to a majority of Americans, with just 44% able to rate him compared with Clinton's 89%. Total familiarity drops still further among the other three announced Democratic candidates: to 23% for former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley at 22% and former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee at 17%. With slightly more Americans viewing each of these candidates unfavorably than favorably, their favorable scores reach no more than 11%.
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http://www.gallup.com/poll/184346/sanders-surges-clinton-sags-favorability.aspx
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)These will probably be the likely voters in the DNC primary.
artislife
(9,497 posts)Is that it looks backwards.
The young are political and Bernie is talking to them about the issues they care about the best out of the field of candidates.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)artislife
(9,497 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Livluvgrow
(377 posts)and its Bernie Sanders. That is all. Good day people.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,718 posts)Clinton's national image has taken a slight turn for the worse, which is also evident in her image among Democrats. But she remains the only Democratic candidate for president with a national name, and Clinton continues to stand head and shoulders above her next closest competitor -- Sanders -- in popularity for the presidential nomination
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)been seen on any of the Sunday morning talk shows spare the lowly rated CNN powder-puff interview.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,718 posts)With all the sinking she is beating Senator Sanders by forty points among all Democrats:
http://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster/2016-national-democratic-primary
and 82-6 among African American Democrats:
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2015/07/trump-still-leads-gop-field-but-descent-may-be-beginning.html
and 73-3 among Latino Democrats:
http://huelladigital.univisionnoticias.com/the-latin-vote/
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,718 posts)Bill Clinton had to combat charges of being a philanderer and a draft dodger before the New Hampshire primary and he went on to be the first president elected and re-elected in his own right since Franklin Roosevelt...
Bill and Hill have been handing the Rethuglicans their asses for some thirty five years and I don't see that ending any time soon.
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)the people approved of.
Hillary is a lecturing bore with a touch of condescension.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,718 posts)Odd, that's how I feel about her detractors
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)President.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,718 posts)eom
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)bookmark this thread.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,718 posts)I would literally bet my life on it.
Bookmark this thread!
90% of the African American vote
70% of the Latino vote
70% of the Asian vote
38% of the white vote
Purveyor
(29,876 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,718 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,123 posts)Feel the Bern!
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)on the primary process.
It's fawking bullshit.
According to the 2010 census, 250 million Americans live in urban areas....that's 80% of the population.
Those lily white states don't represent America.
olddots
(10,237 posts)BlueStateLib
(937 posts)Clinton's favorable rating has slipped slightly among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents since April, falling to 74% from 79%
http://www.gallup.com/poll/184346/sanders-surges-clinton-sags-favorability.aspx
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)eom