Townhall: No Longer Unbeatable (Hillary)

[skipos]

Hillary Clinton's negatives keep climbing, raising new questions about her electability and improving the prospects of her chief rivals for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination.

The New York senator's favorability ratings took a nosedive in mid-April, dropping from 58 percent in February to 45 percent, according to latest Gallup Poll. It was her lowest favorability score since 1993.

A 52 percent majority of the voters now say they have a negative view of her candidacy. That compares to her closest rival, Sen. Barack Obama, who was rated favorably by 52 to 27 percent.

Clinton still held on to her front-runner status in most polls last week, but pollsters and political analysts tell me she is losing the support of strategic blocs in her party's base, including women, liberals and independents, who feel she has waffled on withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq.

"The recent decline in her image appears to be broad based" among most key voter subgroups, Gallup said.

More:
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DonaldLambro/2007/04/30/no_longer_unbeatable

[luckyleftyme2]

1. could this be a repuke plan

to divide and conquer? we have some great candidates lets not help the right rip them apart! they are good at this!
REMEMBER WE WANT THE WHITE HOUSE IN 08!
AND MORE DEMOCRATS IN EACH BRANCH OF LEGISLATURE

[rinsd]

2. Surely a non-RW source has written on this. Shit skip, you could have written something

But to post RW spin on DU?

[skipos]

6. HELL YEAH non-RW sources have written about Hillary's bad numbers

But I don't find anything about this article to be "spin," but then again, I won't dismisses unflattering polls and articles about Edwards, Obama, Gore, Richardson, etc as spin either. I also won't disagree with someone just because they aren't a Democrat. It isn't that difficult to admit the strengths and weaknesses of our candidates.

What do you consider to be the weaknesses of Hillary Clinton?

[rinsd]

7. Its a Townhall article. Anything written about ANY Democrat is immediately suspect

You might as well post an RNC internal memo.

Skip, you should take a few minutes and write a post detailing Hillary weaknesses. Hell you can even steal the poll notes from this article.

[skipos]

9. Can you answer my question? nt

[MH1]

10. Townhall is a repuke site

I am no fan of Hillary's ... check my posts if you haven't noticed ... but Townhall is just a step above freeperville...if even a step.

[AtomicKitten]

3. the voters will decide in the primary

I view these analyses and polls as infotainment used for self-serving purposes
at DU to lob mud at candidates perceived to be a threat to those others support.

Yawn.

[illinoisprogressive]

4. the establishment must be shaking. Their beloved shove down your throat candidate is losing

[AtomicKitten]

5. AKA "mainstream" n/t

[rinsd]

8. Yes shaking about political maverick and DC outsider Obama!

Oh wait a minute....

The Big 3 are all establishment candidates!

:hi: