Thread: 2016 Democratic US Presidential Candidates

I think this post/news about Mrs. Clinton should be rubbed in a bit more. I would also like to add and highlight a couple things,……..

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Oooooh this will get Booners blubbing!

Ex-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has a commanding advantage for the Democratic presidential nomination and a lead of eight to 13 points over her most likely Republican foes, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.

“Democratic socialist” challenger, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vermont, has been drawing big crowds — 5,500 in Denver over the weekend — but trails Clinton by a 75-15 percent margin among Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters.

In general election matchups, Clinton has a 48-40 percent lead over Jeb Bush, a 50-40 percent lead over Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, and a 51-37 percent advantage over Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Bush, Walker and Rubio lead the Republican field in the poll.

The survey was conducted June 14-18, shortly after the formal kickoff of Clinton’s campaign and spanning the formal launch of Bush’s bid for the White House.

Clinton has come under fire on fronts ranging from preferring Manhattan digs to her Brooklyn headquarters, to her family’s luxury vacation rentals in the Hamptons on Long Island and her vague position on proposed Pacific and Atlantic free trade agreements.

She is also a behind-closed-doors campaigner who was briefly in Seattle on Saturday for a private $2,700 a person fundraiser.

The only public event Clinton has held here over the last seven years was a 2014 book signing, followed by a Clinton Foundation fundraiser on the Eastside. The price of a seat at the head table was a whopping $50,000.

The criticism isn’t hitting home, according to the NBC/WSJ findings.

“Hillary Clinton continues to lap the field on the Democratic side,” said veteran Democratic pollster Peter Hart, who conducted the survey along with Republican opinion expert Bill McInturff.

Clinton occupies the “strongest and most advantageous position” of any non-incumbent seeking his or her party’s nomination of any candidate he has ever seen, McInturff told NBC News.

A whopping 92 percent of Democratic voters say they could support Clinton, a figure that has climbed from 86 percent in March. Despite that level of support, however, 62 percent of Democrats said they want a contested race for their party’s nomination.

Bush is doing much better among the Republicans in recent months. Seventy-five percent of the Republican voters polled said they could support the former Florida governor, up from 49 percent in March.

The Republican field is still splintered. Bush was on top in the poll with 22 percent, followed by Walker at 17 percent. (Walker has been running ahead in Iowa caucus polls.) Rubio was third with 14 percent, followed by retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson at 11 percent.

The pecking order is important, because Fox News says it will allow only 10 GOP candidates on stage when the right-wing channel hosts the first Republican debate later this summer. It will consult polls in making its pick.

The other six who would qualify, according to NBC/WSJ figures, are ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (9 percent), Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky (7 percent), ex-Texas Gov. Rick Perry (5 percent), Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (4 percent), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (4 percent) and former business executive Carly Fiorino (2 percent).

Republic strategists have been extremely nervous at the possible presence of billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump on stage. Trump announced last week, with scalding remarks about immigrants as well as his GOP opponents.

He gets exactly 1 percent in the NBC/WSJ poll, the same as Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina.

Ex-Sen. Rick Santorum, who won primaries and caucuses in 2012, does not even reach one percent.

President Obama had an unchanged 48 percent job approval rating in the survey, which was conducted June 14-18, with interviews of 1,000 voters (400 by cell phone) and has a margin of error of plus/minus 3.1 percent.

Hillary Clinton is the candidate to beat in 2016: NBC/Wall Street Journal poll - Strange Bedfellows ? Politics News

538 rates the NBC/Wall Street polls at A-, so we know they are accurate numbers.

and just because I like the color blue

It isn’t too early. It isn’t wide open. This election is already settled, because the rethugs haven’t anything to offer.

I wonder why Mrs. Clinton released the video below, today?

The pecking order is important, because Fox News says it will allow only 10 GOP candidates on stage when the right-wing channel hosts the first Republican debate later this summer. It will consult polls in making its pick.

The other six who would qualify, according to NBC/WSJ figures, are ex-Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (9 percent), Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky (7 percent), ex-Texas Gov. Rick Perry (5 percent), Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (4 percent), New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (4 percent) and former business executive Carly Fiorina (2 percent).

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz (4 percent)

Ted Cruz at 4%

Carly Fiorina (2 percent)

I think I saw where Fiorina was closer to 1.8%. Maybe they’re just rounding up

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But don’t get all depressed teabaggers, there’s still hope if you want to believe a FOX News poll.