Tag: Hillary Clinton

Clinton’s National Lead Grows, Attracts Greater Dem Support

Buck Banks

50% to 42%

Hillary Clinton’s lead over Donald Trump nationally, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. “Clinton is winning 92% support among self-identified Democrats. That compares with 86% support just before the Republican convention and is an indication that the Democratic convention helped consolidate supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders behind her candidacy… In contrast, Trump is winning 83% of self-identified Republicans, nearly identical to the 82% support he had among Republicans before his convention in Cleveland.”

Clinton More Trusted on Foreign Policy

Buck Banks

59% to 36%

Spread by which Hillary Clinton has widened her edge over Donald Trump as being perceived as more trusted to handle foreign policy, and she has pulled even with Trump on handling terrorism, 48% to 48%, just as foreign policy has come to the forefront of the campaign, a new CNN/ORC poll finds. “And on the most prominent foreign policy issue of late, Russia and its relationship with the US, nearly 6-in-10 see the country as unfriendly, and about half say they think the Russian government is attempting to influence the outcome of the US presidential election.”

Clinton Ahead Nationally As Pollsters Change Questions

Buck Banks

41% to 35%

A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Hillary Clinton leading Donald Trump by six points, 41% to 35%, with another 25% picking “other. … The presidential tracking poll reflects a slight change of wording from previous surveys, replacing the ‘Neither/Other’ option given to respondents with just ‘Other.’ An internal review had found the word ‘Neither’ has, at times, siphoned support away from one or the other candidate.”

Dear Dr. Democrat: Gallup Gives Me Gastritis

Dr. Democrat

Dear Dr. Democrat:

doctordemocratsmallI’ve been reading Gallup polling, and it has me worried, though there seems to be good news and bad news. First, the bad:

The average American’s views of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have converged for the first time in Gallup’s yearlong tracking of the images of the two candidates, with Americans giving each exactly the same favorable and unfavorable ratings. The numbers for both candidates, based on interviewing conducted July 18-25, are 37% favorable and 58% unfavorable. In all previous Gallup updates stretching back to last July, Clinton’s net favorable has been higher than Trump’s.

The current period covers the four days of the Republican convention, but also includes the weekend in which Clinton announced her vice presidential running mate and the first night of the Democratic convention. In fact, when the data from Saturday, Sunday and Monday are isolated, the numbers are even slightly more in Trump’s favor — 37%/58% favorable/unfavorable, compared with Clinton’s 36%/59%.

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Trump Adviser Says Hillary Clinton Should Be Shot

Buck Banks

She is a disgrace for the lies that she told those mothers about their children that got killed over there in Benghazi… This whole thing disgusts me, Hillary Clinton should be put in the firing line and shot for treason.

Mh2>— New Hampshire state representative Al Baldasaro (R), an adviser to Donald Trump on veterans issues, asserting that Hillary Clinton should be put in a firing line and shot for treason, BuzzFeed reports.