I have never seen two worse Democrat front runners in all my life. The Democrat Party has prepared the way for a Republican victory simply by being themselves. The funny thing is, despite their love affair with the Clintons and with the radical Marxist Bernie Sanders, Democrats, when polled, don’t speak too highly of either candidate.
Let’s look at Secretary Clinton. Quinnipiac Poll.
In the most recent national poll, Hillary Clinton’s unfavorables to favorables are absolutely delicious. Only 39% of Americans have a favorable opinion of Hillary Clinton. Only 75% of Democrats have a favorable opinion of Hillary Clinton. Only 39% of Independents have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton. Surely amongst women Hillary would have to be doing well! Nope! only47% of women have a favorable opinion of Hillary Clinton. 31% of white people have a favorable opinion of Hillary Clinton. Heck, she can at least count on like 95% favorability with African Americans! Oops, not so fast Jack. Only 73% of African Americans have a favorable view of Hillary Clinton. How about those Millennials, the future of the Democrat Party? Only 39% of young people have a favorable opinion of Hillary Clinton. Amongst Generation X, folks between 35 and 49 years of age, only 34% have a favorable opinion of Hillary Clinton.
Let’s face it. Folks just don’t like Hillary Clinton. Should she be the Democrat Nominee, we’ll be looking at a Republican President in 2017.
Bernie Sanders numbers are much better than Hillary, however he has a totally different set of problems.
44% of Americans have a favorable view of Bernie Sanders, which is scary considering that means that 44% of our fellow Americans have a positive opinion of a radical Marxist. That said, only 72% of Democrats hold a favorable view of the Marxist curmudgeon. Shockingly, 53% of “Independents” have a favorable view of Senator Sanders. This confirms for me that the independent voter is usually the least informed voter. Only 45% of women hold a positive view of Bernie Sanders, meaning that Sanders struggles more with women than Hillary, but neither of them, amongst a key constituency in a Presidential election, can get 50% support of women. That’s crazy.
Now, while 60% of Millennials have a positive view of the Marxist leader, amongst his piers (those 65 and older) only 36% hold a favorable view. Even more troubling for a man running for the Democrat Nomination, only 55% of African Americans have a positive view of the Senator.
Now, once the Democrats have their nominee, many of these numbers are sure to go up as Democrats rally around their version of the lesser of two evils, but what these numbers tell me, is that both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders will have massive enthusiasm gaps within major demographics needed to get elected.
So while the Republicans chew themselves up in an increasingly ridiculous and vicious primary, the Democrats have no where to go, no one to save them. It’ll either be Hillary or Bernie and there is nothing they can do about it.
For these reasons, I would prefer to see the Republican Candidates stop with their nonsense about how they and only they can defeat the Democrat in a general election. The Republicans could find some rich buffoonish billionaire playboy and reality tv star, nominate him, and even he could beat one of these two Democrats in November. We’ll still have to work hard, not taking anything for granted, but we’re up against the weakest crop of Democrats in our lifetime and that’s a source of great encouragement.
Originally published on PendletonPenn.com
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You guys are under estimating the Clinton party machine’s ability to overcome anything to get elected. That whole email thing is going away, thanks to Paul Ryan and an FBI busy typing up their resignation paperwork. The wall street money Clinton received was simply “What they were paying.” Bill hasn’t strayed from Hill lately. And they are promising to bring the white house china back. So there is nothing left to stand in their way on the path to the White House family home. Hill can be the Prez while Bill acts as virtual VP and all will be right as rain. By the end of their reign, Senator Chelsea will take over the family business and estate. So you may as well get used to it.
You are one pessimistic and depressing dude
I guess it’s too much GOP BS that made me that way. Or it could have been those books I read written by elitist a holes starting decades ago that advocate a more modern world order that puts us peons in a different caste than most Americans could imagine.
No effing way. Evidently, you have no idea the danger into which Hilary Clinton has placed this country. You have no idea what Top Secret HCS means, and you have no idea the great lengths which the hundreds of thousands of us in the Intelligence Community must go to in order to safeguard classified information. She is not walking from this one. This ain’t White Water. This is near treason, even if her Kosha Nostra Media Complex tries to ignore it – it cannot.
Well yeah, I do know a bit of something about classified information. Clinton is on a different level to us average people who would have already been in jail. Ryan is already telling the House to back down. And there are stories going around that the FBI has been handcuffed. If she doesn’t walk, then all the good and I’ll reevaluate my voting plans. But I’m looking at the end result, not wishful thinking.
Steven Tucker is right on the money. Since 1992 the Democrats have been blessed with two incredibly charismatic and effective candidates in Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. But not this time. Hillary does not look the part, or sound the part, or even act the part. She is totally unlikeable, and given her persona who could blame Bill for his wandering eyes and arms? And when it comes to Bernie there is no way an old New York Jewish socialist such as Bernie Sanders is going to get blacks and Latinos to vote for him in the margins necessary to ensure victory in key states such as OH, VA, FL, and perhaps even PA and MI. The Dems are in deep doo doo and they know it.
Yea, you said half of it. Who are the Republicans blessed with this time?
Marco Rubio is better than Hillary – in policy, likeability, and honesty. Not that Rubio is perfect, but he does have an attractive family and a better life story.
I will not vote for him due to his views on amnesty for illegal’s. Not a chance. No way dude.
Get anywhere near amnesty and I run the other way. Disqualified.
Rubio and the rest are too far to the right to be considered by many swing voters. Social issues alone will push people away let alone their desire to grow the size of the govt through increased military spending. On top of that, they threaten to revoke obamacare without a replacement first, leaving so many without coverage. If they could simply come up with a full plan before they promise to cut everyone off. And don’t forget the promises of growing the military budget which will blow apart any hope of reduced spending, smaller govt and less debt.
We will never again encounter such a delicious situation as with the Democrat candidates. All of us should pledge to enthusiastically promote our own Republican choice until such time that there is a consensus candidate, then all fall in behind him in order to regain the white house… and save the Supreme Court.
True, we may salvage the Supreme Court but nothing will save us from the burgeoning interest on the debt and the coming fiscal collapse.
What makes you think a GOP POTUS will save the Supreme Court?