For a long, long time we have all known that Hillary Clinton is a terrible candidate. People don't trust her. People don't believe her. People don't think she cares about them. Even worse, Hillary acts as if she's already president or queen or empress. She operates on the "friends and family plan" when it comes to taking questions; unless you are a friend or a family member she won't take your questions. In the few instances that a difficult question gets asked of her, she either doesn't answer it or just lies in response. Her events are half empty. As I said at the top, she's a terrible candidate.
Despite her failings as a candidate, however, Hillary has been atop the polls for the Democrat nominee since the beginning of the race. She's been helped by a lack of competition. To date, the only actual competition has been Bernie Sanders who seems more like the winner of a Doc Brown look alike competition as some Back to the Future event than an actual candidate for president. Think about it; the man always seems angry and upset about something. He's a proud socialist who spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union in the days when that country was our mortal enemy. He's more like a comic book character than a presidential candidate. If only his first and last name started with the same letter, he'd be perfect for the comics. Can't you picture it? He'd be "Shouty Sanders". Hillary could be "Calamity Clinton". But I digress.
Polls out in the last few days now say that Sanders is actually ahead of Clinton in both Iowa and New Hampshire. Indeed, in New Hampshire, today's poll from CBS puts Sanders ahead with every demographic group that was polled. That means that Hillary is losing among women to Sanders, and it's not because of Bernie's good looks. On every front, Hillary has lost support.
So what is happening? It's not the disclosure that the FBI is investigating Hillary for potential criminal activity in connection with the Clinton Foundation; that news is too new. It's not that Clinton lied about the existence of that investigation; that lie is also too new to have any impact on these polls. It could be that Hillary's persistent lies about what she told the families of the Benghazi survivors is having an effect, but that news may be too obscure to have made the difference. No, I think that what has happened is that voters in New Hampshire and Iowa have come to realize that in selecting Hillary they will get all of the endless Clinton scandals and dishonesty. They've had enough of that to last a lifetime. To a certain extent, the ultimate emergence of cold feelings towards Hillary was an inevitable side effect to election day getting close.
There is, however, another factor and, strangely, that factor is Donald Trump. When Hillary went into her usual attack mode and said Trump had a penchant for sexism, the Donald fought back in an exceedingly clever way. He pointed out that Hillary herself had persecuted all those women that had accused Bill Clinton of molesting them. Hillary is the one who attacked women when it counted, it was not Donald Trump. That counter-attack made news everywhere. And it had the desired effect. Voters were reminded once again that Hillary is a total phony who will say or do anything in order to help herself politically. She stands for nothing except what will help her at the moment. Trump's attack did not destroy all of Clinton's support, but it reminded enough voters just who Hillary really is so as to push her behind Bernie Sanders. Even Democrats who dislike Trump intensely still got the message as to Hillary's real persona.
We may have reached the tipping point on Hillary. She no longer is the inevitable candidate. Now she's just another grasping politician telling lies to advance her cause. And, if so, that is death for Hillary's candidacy. We won't have to wait too long to see if this has occurred. It may well be that in six or eight weeks we won't have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.
Despite her failings as a candidate, however, Hillary has been atop the polls for the Democrat nominee since the beginning of the race. She's been helped by a lack of competition. To date, the only actual competition has been Bernie Sanders who seems more like the winner of a Doc Brown look alike competition as some Back to the Future event than an actual candidate for president. Think about it; the man always seems angry and upset about something. He's a proud socialist who spent his honeymoon in the Soviet Union in the days when that country was our mortal enemy. He's more like a comic book character than a presidential candidate. If only his first and last name started with the same letter, he'd be perfect for the comics. Can't you picture it? He'd be "Shouty Sanders". Hillary could be "Calamity Clinton". But I digress.
Polls out in the last few days now say that Sanders is actually ahead of Clinton in both Iowa and New Hampshire. Indeed, in New Hampshire, today's poll from CBS puts Sanders ahead with every demographic group that was polled. That means that Hillary is losing among women to Sanders, and it's not because of Bernie's good looks. On every front, Hillary has lost support.
So what is happening? It's not the disclosure that the FBI is investigating Hillary for potential criminal activity in connection with the Clinton Foundation; that news is too new. It's not that Clinton lied about the existence of that investigation; that lie is also too new to have any impact on these polls. It could be that Hillary's persistent lies about what she told the families of the Benghazi survivors is having an effect, but that news may be too obscure to have made the difference. No, I think that what has happened is that voters in New Hampshire and Iowa have come to realize that in selecting Hillary they will get all of the endless Clinton scandals and dishonesty. They've had enough of that to last a lifetime. To a certain extent, the ultimate emergence of cold feelings towards Hillary was an inevitable side effect to election day getting close.
There is, however, another factor and, strangely, that factor is Donald Trump. When Hillary went into her usual attack mode and said Trump had a penchant for sexism, the Donald fought back in an exceedingly clever way. He pointed out that Hillary herself had persecuted all those women that had accused Bill Clinton of molesting them. Hillary is the one who attacked women when it counted, it was not Donald Trump. That counter-attack made news everywhere. And it had the desired effect. Voters were reminded once again that Hillary is a total phony who will say or do anything in order to help herself politically. She stands for nothing except what will help her at the moment. Trump's attack did not destroy all of Clinton's support, but it reminded enough voters just who Hillary really is so as to push her behind Bernie Sanders. Even Democrats who dislike Trump intensely still got the message as to Hillary's real persona.
We may have reached the tipping point on Hillary. She no longer is the inevitable candidate. Now she's just another grasping politician telling lies to advance her cause. And, if so, that is death for Hillary's candidacy. We won't have to wait too long to see if this has occurred. It may well be that in six or eight weeks we won't have Hillary Clinton to kick around anymore.
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