She's gloating about polls showing Hillary not trusted by voters.
"Mrs. Clinton has long contended that voters care more about issues — like equal pay for women, widely available child care, and making college more affordable — than how she handled her emails as secretary of state. Even her Democratic primary opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, tried to squelch the storm over the private server during the first Democratic debate last fall."
"But something has seeped into the electorate. A presidential campaign always contends with incoming fire, but it is also designed to serve as an infomercial to present a candidate’s best attributes. Instead, Mrs. Clinton has gone from having a 69 percent approval rating and being one of the most popular public figures in the country when she left the State Department in 2013 to having one of the highest disapproval ratings of any likely presidential nominee of a major party."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/us/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-campaign-trust.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
Sure. Just like in 2000, something had 'seeped' into the electorate about Al Gore: he's a bad guy because the media kept saying he said he invented the Internet. That was more important than the lies and distortions Bush told about his tax plan and budget.
Now the media is playing this same game again. They are giving Trump a pass down the line while focusing on her using private emails. Meanwhile Powell did the same thing while he was Secretary of State.
Mrs. Clinton’s allies on Wednesday jumped on the fact that the report also revealed that Colin Powell, the secretary of state under President George W. Bush, and other State Department officials had also exclusively used personal email accounts. “The inspector general documents just how consistent her email practices were with those of other secretaries and senior officials at the State Department,” said Brian Fallon, a Clinton spokesman.
But Mr. Powell is not running for president against a likely opponent, Donald J. Trump, who has now adopted the drumbeat of “Crooked Hillary.”
"Mrs. Clinton has long contended that voters care more about issues — like equal pay for women, widely available child care, and making college more affordable — than how she handled her emails as secretary of state. Even her Democratic primary opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, tried to squelch the storm over the private server during the first Democratic debate last fall."
"But something has seeped into the electorate. A presidential campaign always contends with incoming fire, but it is also designed to serve as an infomercial to present a candidate’s best attributes. Instead, Mrs. Clinton has gone from having a 69 percent approval rating and being one of the most popular public figures in the country when she left the State Department in 2013 to having one of the highest disapproval ratings of any likely presidential nominee of a major party."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/us/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-campaign-trust.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
Sure. Just like in 2000, something had 'seeped' into the electorate about Al Gore: he's a bad guy because the media kept saying he said he invented the Internet. That was more important than the lies and distortions Bush told about his tax plan and budget.
Now the media is playing this same game again. They are giving Trump a pass down the line while focusing on her using private emails. Meanwhile Powell did the same thing while he was Secretary of State.
Mrs. Clinton’s allies on Wednesday jumped on the fact that the report also revealed that Colin Powell, the secretary of state under President George W. Bush, and other State Department officials had also exclusively used personal email accounts. “The inspector general documents just how consistent her email practices were with those of other secretaries and senior officials at the State Department,” said Brian Fallon, a Clinton spokesman.
But Mr. Powell is not running for president against a likely opponent, Donald J. Trump, who has now adopted the drumbeat of “Crooked Hillary.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/us/politics/hillary-clinton-emails-campaign-trust.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0
Sure. Trump won't release his tax returns, and has been audited every year since the 80s-and at least in a number of years that we know of paid zero taxes. He more or less boasts to being a tax cheat. And Hillary is the crooked one.
So Powell is not crooked though he did the same thing she has.
In any case, there are a few things Choznick leaves out:
Yes Hillary's approval rating was very high before she started running for office. So this proves that approval ratings are not written in stone.
They are not static. It might be the case that once the Dem nomination is set and the party unifies behind her this will change.
For the last year she's been hit by the GOP on the Right-during the primary debates all the GOP candidates attacked her relentlessly.
Meanwhile you had Bernie and his Bros attacking her from the Left and the centrist media hitting her on her emails all day every day for about six months.
Not shocking her numbers might be hit.
But the folks who really are not trustable-as Kevin McCarthy put it-is the biased media who helped elect Bush in 2000 and will do everything it can to elect Hitler 2.0 in 2016.
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