Hillary approaching Bush trust level
This will certainly bolster Sen. Clinton’s electability claims. She’s rapidly approaching George Bush’s ttrustworthiness level.
Poll Shows Erosion Of Trust in Clinton - washingtonpost.com
Clinton is viewed as “honest and trustworthy” by just 39 percent of Americans, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, compared with 52 percent in May 2006. Nearly six in 10 said in the new poll that she is not honest and trustworthy. And now, compared with Obama, Clinton has a deep trust deficit among Democrats, trailing him by 23 points as the more honest, an area on which she once led both Obama and John Edwards.
Among Democrats, 63 percent called her honest, down 18 points from 2006; among independents, her trust level has dropped 13 points, to 37 percent. Republicans held Clinton in low regard on this in the past (23 percent called her honest two years ago), but it is even lower now, at 16 percent. Majorities of men and women now say the phrase does not apply to Clinton; two years ago, narrow majorities of both did.
But just wait for Clinton to start decrying the poll as sexist and baseless since two-thirds of men said Clinton was not honest. It won’t matter that 53 percent of women shared the same view.
In light of this, I can’t wait to see how Clinton handles herself in tonight’s debate on ABC.
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