Posted on 08/27/2015 7:18:02 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The latest Q-poll numbers have dropped and there aren’t really a lot of surprises in the top lines. (Well… there are a couple of exceptions but we’ll get to those in a minute.) What was really startling, though, was the results of the “open ended” questions about several of the candidates. Most specifically, the massively leading, top of the list responses for Hillary Clinton have to be giving her team nightmares. (Connecticut Post… emphasis added)
Clinton leads the Democratic field with 45 percent, down from 55 percent July 30, with U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont at 22 percent and Biden at 18 percent. No other candidate tops 1 percent with 11 percent undecided. This is Sanders’ highest tally and closest margin.
Clinton tops the Democrats’ “no way” list with 11 percent.
“Liar” is the first word that comes to mind more than others in an open-ended question when voters think of Clinton. “Arrogant” is the word for Trump and voters say “Bush” when they think of Bush.
Here’s the high end of the list.
Holy cow. You get 394 responses just by combining the top three results of “Liar, Dishonest and Untrustworthy.” You pretty much have to add up all of the other words on the list to catch up with those three. And this isn’t just a list of responses by Republicans… that’s everyone. What’s truly amazing is that this is clearly the prevailing American perception at this point and yet, Clinton is still the Democrat frontrunner. I’m not sure if that says more about her or the party.
Just for fun, here’s the top of the list for Mr. Trump.
The full results are here in .pdf form if you’d care to browse them. As I said at the top, the biggest hitters haven’t changed all that much. On the GOP side, Trump is still swamping the entire field with 28%, more than doubling Ben Carson who is at 12. Everyone else is still fighting for scraps in single digits, with Bush, Cruz and Rubio tied at 7. Walker is at 6, with Kasich and Fiorina tied at 5.
On the Democrats’ side, Hillary (the aforementioned dishonest, untrustworthy liar) has dropped another ten points to 45, still more than doubling Bernie Sanders at 22. The new kid on the block is the still undeclared Joe Biden who has jumped up to 18. Imagine what he could do if he was actually running. But wait… you don’t really need to imagine too much because the head to head match-ups for the general give us a hint.
Matchups among all American voters show Biden tops Trump 48 – 40 percent. He beats Bush 45 – 39 percent and gets 44 percent to Rubio’s 41 percent.
Clinton edges Trump 45 – 41 percent. She gets 42 percent to Bush’s 40 percent and gets 44 percent to Rubio’s 43 percent.
Sanders edges Trump 44 – 41 percent and edges Bush 43 – 39 percent. Rubio gets 41 percent to Sanders’ 40 percent.
If Trump runs as a third party candidate, Clinton gets 40 percent, with 24 percent each for Bush and Trump.
The last two things to note here are probably the least touted in the media coverage. First of all, Biden is already outperforming Hillary in the general no matter who the GOP candidate is. But the second are the Trump numbers. Yeah, he’s still losing to everyone, but his numbers a month ago were in the low thirties. He’s now at 40 or 41 against any of the Democrats. That’s closing in on the margin of error and he’s within the margin of error when compared to how well the other perceived GOP top dogs would do. If I were tasked with selling Trump at this point I’d probably be out there showing that he’s just as competitive against Hillary (or Biden) as anyone else, so why not take a chance on the guy with the massive TVQ?
As I said, read through the rest of the numbers for some light Thursday entertainment, but those word cloud issues are the real news of the day. Wow. Will the Democrats actually nominate the dishonest, untrustworthy liar?
England had their Richard the Lionhearted; America has their Hillary the Lyin’Hearted (dropping that “g” is respectful of Mrs. Clinton’s “I ain’t know ways tired” dialect).
“Will the Democrats actually nominate the dishonest, untrustworthy liar?”
Are their any other kind of democrats?
Yeah ... “know”=”no” (it’s still early out here)
I would have thought that lesbian would make the list.
Compare Trump’s inclusion in this VERY BAD news for Hillary.
NOT ONE of any of the descriptor words for him were “LIAR, DISHONEST and UNTRUSTWORTHY”....Hillary’s top three.
It sucks to be the poor goober in charge of her campaign (I probably should say “whipping boy” because she’s the one orchestrating her fiasco - the 90s schtick not gonna work this time around girl).
I am going to guess, woman is a euphemism for the word I use.
The first word I associate with her is “murderer”.
Dishonest, untrustworthy, liar, all owned by both the Clintons.
She is heading to an appropriate destiny.
I agree with you on Biden-Warren as the ticket. Little wonder Uncle Joe has fast tracked the startup of his presidential campaign. What I’m interested in is the Clintons reaction to all of this. No right wing conspiracy here. It’s the left doing the damage on them. Will they be dutiful party people and step aside or will they go out in a blaze of glory and take a bunch of Dems down with them. Hillary will not leave the presidential race willingly.
THAT is hilarious. You can submit your own thing(s) you trust more than Hellary.
I love the Trump list!
I want that guy as President even more.
I wish they had Odumbass’s list
Habitual lying is not a negative for Democrats, at least at the national level. In fact, one could make a reasonable argument that it is a requirement.
Note that in addition to liar, dishonest and untrustworthy (totaling 394), you also have crook, untruthful, criminal, deceitful, email (hardly a positive or even neutral word for her, given events), Benghazi, corrupt and crooked. Those latter descriptive words total another 125, for a total of 519 negative opinions of Cankles. 519 out of 838, or 61.9% negative...and not all of the rest are necessarily positive (more neutral, to be fair), like Bill, politician, Democrat - i.e. just facts. So her negatives probably outweigh her positives by 3:1 or more.
This is why I want her to be the Dem nominee - she has more negatives than anyone else in the race...and we’re at the tail end of 8 years of (unbelievably horrible) rule by her party.
I honestly believe it would be AT LEAST a 60% -40% blowout against her for Trump- and it could go as high as 70% for Trump.
They are using the same old polling methods- which are not working for Trump. Even Luntz said he never saw a candidate get 100% before in one of his surveys. I think people who have not voted in decades would go vote, and the pollsters do not count those people.
And Luntz does not even like Trump. But he has a business to run and he is very good at it. (when he is not injecting his personality into it). I think Luntz is one of the best pollsters I have ever seen. But he let it go to his head for a while there, and he himself is NOT Mr. Likeable
Her husband proved that Democrats will gladly elect a proven liar.
I notice that “liar” is, curiously, not on that list.
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