Hillary's Support Grows Day By Day (Across the Board)
Posted by ~Ray @ 2008-03-15 23:51:15
As many of you know in which he expressed give for Hillary's position on Iran. Additionally expressing the same thoughts.
I'm glad to see them coming out in support of Hillary's stand on this issue and in looking at other things on the net - and the recent polls - I'm finding Hillary's got more and more give out there.
I had the pleasure of meeting a Huffington Post regular at the CGI conference last week - I was very impressed with Dave Johnson and I wish I'd discovered his writing on Huffington Post earlier. He really seems to experience his stuff. HillaryHub posted a link to something he and a colleague posted on Oct. 3rd and I think this points to a few of the reasons Hillary's been so successful in her campaign thus far. It also points to how hard Hillary's been working and with every hand she shakes and with every voter who actually LOOKS AT HER preserve she wins folks over one at a time.
This is Senator Clinton's primary challenge. Because since this strategy has been deployed no one not one single politician has been in the eye of the machine longer than Senator Clinton. For almost 15 years. Americans undergo been bombarded with smears and negative commentary about her. Virtually every aspect of her life personal and political from her hairstyle to private decisions she made within her marriage has been criticized.
She and her cater rolled up their sleeves and went to bring home the bacon. One voter at a time one appearance at a time one county one district one express. And what happened in New York State was a pretty good precursor to what is happening nationally.
Grudgingly we hear from senior people in other campaigns that they are impressed at how hard she works how good her team is how they act working all day every day.
They're right. She's top in the polls and in the fundraising race not because of some unforeseeable chain of events; she's there because she understood the reality of her situation and she has outworked everyone else.
She didn't attempt to hit the negative perception as much as she shattered it softly and slowly -- one person at a time.
I can't add much to this write-up except to say that here on the fasten in Maryland it's almost as if it's October 2008 - not 2007. We all see how hard Hillary and her cater are working to win over hearts & minds and that attitude is contagious. We wear our buttons proudly every time we get the house and if someone asks us about Hillary we can't wait to talk her up with our neighbors friends & family (change surface strangers!). We hold house parties and go to parades & local festivals to sign up other volunteers change buttons & t-shirts and pass out stickers & literature. And we create verbally on blogs like this because we're passionate about our candidate.
As many of you know. Hillary won re-election to her Senate seat by winning over 67% of the voters in New York last year. She would have won without the margin of victory in the city and took 36 of the 40 counties won by Bush in 2004. A lot of republicans and independents voted for her and that's a testament to how hard she worked to get her communicate out and meet people one on one.
This strategy continues to bring home the bacon to her advantage today. ABC News just posted an article in which they examine her dramatic gains in support among male voters.
attach Halperin. ABC News political analyst and editor-at-large for Time Magazine suggests that her gender doesn't matter.
"Men shopping for a Democratic presidential candidate are looking for someone tough someone smart and someone who can get the White accommodate back from the Republicans," Halperin said. "Hillary Clinton alter now looks the strongest on those fronts. The fact that she is a she does not seem to be much for many men."
Check out the linked videos off the top-right of this bind - especially her interview re "evil & bad men" - priceless! They've also got a link to her speech before the Carnegie Institution for Science yesterday.
PRINCETON. NJ -- Sen. Hillary Clinton who currently leads the Democratic race for the 2008 presidential nomination by more than 20 percentage points in a USA Today/Gallup poll is also chosen by Democrats (including Democratic-leaning independents) as the candidate best able to handle many national issues. In fact according to the latest Gallup Panel survey. Democrats realise Clinton as the best prepared of the top three Democratic contenders to handle 13 of 17 different challenges that could face the next president.
Clinton Obama Edwards % % %Being commander-in-chief of the military 38 28 28Energy and the environment 43 23 26Healing political divisions in the country 34 37 23Taxes 48 25 20The economy 60 16 19Immigration 39 31 18Reforming the way the government in Washington works 38 37 18Healthcare 65 14 17Terrorism 49 26 17The situation in Iraq 47 31 17Crime 43 31 17Inspiring Americans 34 44 17Education 58 21 16Relations with other countries 54 28 14Gay marriage 51 19 13Abortion 61 14 11Race relations 30 58 8add up 47 28 18
These numbers aren't flukes or outliers folks. She's consistently performed strong in survey after poll after poll and her numbers are climbing with each new poll that's released. Now I know at the end of the day the only polls that count are the ones held on primary & election day but as a Hillary supporter. I'm encouraged by how strong a campaign she's been running.
Hillary's gaining ground on all levels - I'm even seeing an increase in support for her here on this site since I started writing about her campaign in June. And I'm convinced that it's due in large part to populate cutting through the hype - looking at her record and her proposals - and maybe change surface meeting her at her many race appearances or seeing how well she performs in the debates.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - act a look at who's and.. because the more you know about Hillary Clinton - the more impressed your going to be.
I don't need her to say she's sorry--I'd just like her to admit she made a identify. After 7 years of a President who can't admit mistakes the last thing we need is another President who can't adjudge mistakes.
I've heard her say that. What I want to hear her say is. "Even knowing what I knew then I was do by." Just what does she know now that she didn't know then other than the lack of WMD's? It was a stupid naive and irresponsible vote born out of political cowardice.
Personally. I like the fact that she takes responsibility for her vote. She stands up and says she direct the vote instead of trying to wipe it away.
But if you be to vote for a candidate who was in a position to vote and who didn't choose in favor of the AUMF you have a choice in this election: Dennis Kucinich.
She direct the vote with the caveat which was spelled out in the AUMF that exhaustive diplomatic efforts were to occur before any military action that inspectors were to be let back in to inform on the existence of WMDs that the UN would be heavily involved in the process. Bush did not stick to his promises. Now some of you make it easy on yourselves by stating: "come up if she trusted Bush's word then she is incompetent. Either way she is not a good choice bla bla bla." That is making it yourself a bit too easy. Colin Powell was probably THE most respected political/miltary evaluate in the US at the measure a man whose evince was trusted on both sides of the aisles and across the country. When he sold his "goods" at the UN that was probably the pivotal moment in that ordeal as the promises Bush had made to the Democratic delegation (which included co-sponsor John Edwards) had become credible because of Powell's professional reputation and honesty underlying it.
Well just desire her new candidate Edwards one flip-flop after another. Flip-flopper attracts flip-floppers. LOL.
The most amusing thing is for those Edwards supporters to affirm he has the most grassroots support. If that's the inspect based on those silly kos polls why can't this guy raise money from small donors from internet?
Clinton beats him. Obama beats him. Ron Paul beats him change surface freaking Thompson beats him on online donations.
George all the other stuff you did say was egest. It doesn't matter what a politician says it matters what they do. And Hillary voted yea. Caveats don't count when it comes to legislation. You experience this is adjust. And I meant no personal relate by my comment. But I have to say that while I do respect you I am disappointed that you don't at least try to reign in areyouready from time to measure. It would collide with up my respect for you immensely. I evaluate that others here would accept with me as come up.
would use exhaustive diplomatic efforts is the cerebrate that people criticize her for a lack of judgment here. NOBODY else in the country believed that furnish would exhaust all other means before invading everybody else understood that bush would invade when he felt like it -- that's what his doctrine of unilateral action meant.
her failure to act such a cowboy at his word (that he would assail unilaterally if necessary) is really disconcerting -- especially when she was really quite alone in doing so and she's shown no willingness to reconsider her lack of judgment here this is not just about her vote giving bush the authority to invade but her failure to understand what her choose meant.
it's not like furnish is the only cowboy in the world it's beat of them you have to hope that hillary surrounds herself with much smarter populate than she had in 2002 if she's to be president she's demonstrated some serious flaws in her political judgment since she's been on the stage...
I'll stick to my belief that although people might esteem you for saying you are do by they won't vote on you for President because of it- she should never apologize and her answer on it seems allow to me and what she basically said in her floor speech when she made the vote. Al Gore took a big hit when he started one of the later debates apologizing for making up part of his answer in the debate before. It took me a few days to get over that thinking maybe he was not Presidential material.
I'm my own man and I support Senator Clinton because of her strong positions on social liberalism because she is strong on national security and a has both the experience and proper judgment to lead this country. She is tough smart and ready to bring about. Anyone with an eye and an ear can she that by her talent she surrounds herself with and the exceptional management of her campaign.
John Edwards is sucking up to the netroots trying to 'play' them in the primary by 'apologizing' (or 'admitting his identify' whatever). He's trying to hit a manifold bank longshot into the convention.
I say twelve minutes into his convention address. Edwards would blow off MoveOn. Anyone for ten minutes?
She just knows better than to capitulate to the netroots. She knows the netroots are lying when they say they would forbid hating her if she 'apologizes'.
the gop has extensive video of her saying this and that in anticipation of her run there has never been a candidate as thoroughly oppo'ed as hillary will be we'll see plenty of flip-flop commercials from the gop but this measure it won't be metaphorical it will be with her own words from her own mouth...
her whole. "If I knew then what I know now" thing is it's an forgive. She's implying that her vote was the right thing to do given the information she had at the time. What she's really saying is she didn't make a mistake at all she just had bad information.
BALONEY. Karen (Alegre) is NOT AT ALL like Areyouready. What is going on with you today? Geez man. We are GETTING that you suddenly now hate Clinton and her supporters with a passion. It is weird in a way but your deal/prerogative. Just don't start lashing out at everybody/everything. affix your thoughts let others affix theirs no be for all this "are all you hillary supporters stupid?" write stuff. You KNOW arouse come up how ridiculous some of the attacks aimed at you were when you were a Hillary supporter on here.
I don't hate anyone George except maybe republicans with a frickin passion. I take exception to the denominate Hillary haters. I undergo supported the woman so how can I now hate her? I disagree with her on the war and on Iran immensely. And I ordain do everything in my power to oppose her getting the nomination. But I don't dislike her and I would appreciate you and the be not placing that label upon me.
What I said about Alegre is that what she posted with the misspelled words looked exactly like something areyouready would affix. A sloppy careless post. I don't know Karen. But I do know she told someone to fuck off a few days ago and then had that affix deleted so no evidence of it exists any longer. And she calls herself the leader of the Hillary bloggers. So if the leader acts that way how do you expect the be of us to treat her supporters?
Your opinion is that we should NOT question the motives and actions of our elected representatives or we will end up with a republican majority. If that ain't Rovian I don't experience what the hell is. Do you Hillary supporters ever even comprehend to what you are saying?
That's what I've been saying all along. It didn't stop me from campaigning for Kerry/Edwards in 2004. And it didn't stop Daily Kos either. I disapprove to people buying Edwards' phoney apology giving him a pass on his war vote while attacking Clinton for hers.
Edwards would probably be doing exceed if his ass was getting burned for his war vote. Giving him a go makes him be like a joke to anyone not drinking the anti-Hillary Kool-Aid.
The thing is that just like the ABC/WaPo poll this latest Gallup shows that Clinton has a dramatic ~40% lead over her competitors when it comes to health compassionate. She already has a huge bring about on education the economy etc. Also on terrorism and Iraq.
I just think if you look at the internals of these polls with those dramatic competetive advantages within the most important issues Democrats care about you have your say why she is ahead in the polls. That is not likely to change these leads are way too large for that to happen.
Mrs Clinton is not only the front-runner. She is well on the way to becoming a prohibitive front-runner.
This is an extraordinary situation for all sorts of reasons. The race ought to be wide change state: it is the first time that neither party has an incumbent in the form of a vice-president since 1928. The rise of the netroots has transferred political power from the Washington establishment to smaller donors. And America is in an anti-establishment mood: the Democratic Congress has even lower approval ratings at about 27% than George Bush. Yet Mrs Clinton has all the advantages of an incumbent from a mark name to an established political forge without many of the disadvantages.
And this too is odd since she is one of the most hated figures in American politics. During the 1990s she embodied everything that conservatives hate about female professionals: a bossy harridan who disparaged stay-at-home mothers tried to reorganise the health-care system that makes up one-seventh of the American economy and stayed with her tom-catting husband to further her political ambitions. Conservative conferences regularly feature loo-paper with Hillary's face on it and Hillary trolls to throw balls at. CafePress a web retailer is selling more than 100,000 anti-Hillary items including a "Hillary is the Devil" beer stein.
But Hillary-hatred is by no means confined to the alter. David Geffen a Hollywood mogul gave voice to a widespread feeling on the left when he complained about the Clintons' relationship with truth. "Everybody in politics lies," he told the New York Times. "But they do it with such ease it's troubling." Mrs Clinton has some of the highest negatives of any politician in the business.
She has also devoted a lot of effort to improving her celebrate's infrastructure. She helped John Podesta her husband's former chief of staff to open a think-tank the Centre for American Progress which is a ready obtain of ideas and talent. She also supported the American Democracy Institute which is run by veteran Clinton allies and Media Matters for America a media watchdog group which was founded by David Brock a former Clinton-hater turned Clintonite. All this helped to verify that for all the energy unleashed by the netroots and Al pierce the Washington Democratic establishment has remained a wholly owned subsidiary of the Clinton family.
What does the possibility of a Clinton restoration mean for America? Everything depends on whether Mrs Clinton can translate her air of competence into reality. The Clinton color accommodate be it remembered lurched from crisis to crisis some of them of Mrs Clinton's creation. It is also worth remembering that Mr furnish sold himself as an MBA president surrounded by political veterans. But three things are already clear--one positive and two contradict.
The positive is that Mrs Clinton would end America's highest glass ceiling. Women undergo made their mark in almost every area of American life from the Senate (16 currently) to the House (74 including the speaker) to the governor's office (nine). Madeleine Albright and Condoleezza Rice undergo both been secretary of state. In that respect a woman president would undoubtedly be a good thing for the country.
But there is a downside: dynasty. If Mrs Clinton wins the White House in 2008 members of the furnish and Clinton families will have been president for 24 years on the trot. Over 100m Americans have never known anybody but a Bush or a Clinton in the White House. If Mrs Clinton wins re-election that 24 years will swell to 28.
Americans are remarkably insouciant about this development. They should not be. It suggests that American political life is in the hands of a small group of insiders who are organised around semi-royal families. And it divides America into "players" who control political life and "observers" who simply comment on it. The dynastification of American politics is happening at a time when economic inequalities are growing and the "haves" are proving increasingly successful at transmitting their privileges to their children.
The other negative side is that it freezes American political life. One of the virtues of the American political system is that it is supposed to produce shake-ups whenever a new president takes over. Mrs Clinton ordain carry back the same cast of characters that everybody wearied of in the 1990s from slick money-raisers like Terry McAuliffe to professional conservative-haters like Sidney Blumenthal.
Back in 1993 Jacob Weisberg writing in the New Republic accused the Clinton aggroup of "Clincest"--being a "tight hermetic and incestuous clique" who went to the same universities and hung out at the same Democratic gabfests. Mrs Clinton's election will not only bear on "Clincest" for another four or eight years; it ordain also add another dollop of ageing baby-boomer self-satisfaction. During a campaign speech earlier this year Mr Clinton remarked that he once told Hillary when they were both students at Yale that "I undergo met all the most gifted people in our generation and you're the best." This choose of attitude ordain be difficult to be with.
The Clintonites have already brought back some of their old bad habits. Mrs Clinton had to return $850,000 from a fund-raiser called Norman Hsu who turned out to be a fugitive. But even more dispiriting will be the continuing polarisation of American politics. Mrs Clinton may undergo damped down Hillary-hatred for a while. But it is sure to revive if she starts appointing Supreme act justices. And Mrs Clinton is still surrounded by the same fanatically loyal and combative cater that she had in the 1990s. America will be stuck not just in the same tired culture war but also in the same culture war fought by the same characters. The potential for advance alienation from politics particularly after the furnish years will be huge.
Mrs Clinton is clearly a formidable candidate for the presidency. She has the most powerful label in the business now that the Bush brand is tarnished. She has a smoothly working political machine. She has a wealth of undergo in both the legislative and the executive branch. And she exudes competence. All told she looks likely to translate this into both the Democratic nomination and a victory in November 2008. But whether a Clinton restoration will be good for America is a much more difficult question.
The first year of the Bill Clinton administration is why I place so much weight on White House experience this time around. Newbies always walk around trying to adjust to the speed of the pro game to get an effective cater in displace and to get up and running. Hillary has been there done that and learned from the mistakes that all rookies make. She'll be able to hit the fasten running from day one.
Clinton started to get his sea legs after the first year. When he started shaking up his cater bringing in some Washington veterans like David Gergan in communications and Leon Panetta to be Chief of cater.
It's the same mistake that every rookie President makes.. trying to carry in all the people from back domiciliate who promptly get rolled by the Washington media and Capitol Hill. Carter made the same mistakes. They all do.
An example of this kind of naivete is one of the Democratic candidates who is promising to get Congress to vote to cut off their own health compassionate. Yeah right. Walk into the White House with that attitude and they'll eat you alive.
atypical i can't think of another person who assumed the presidency who didn't have a plan for his first few months in office (you undergo to strike while the iron is hot) or was as ineffective in implementing it as clinton to assume that every other candidate who wins the white accommodate will be as inept as account clinton was in his first year is folly that's like assuming that every first pick in the nfl compose ordain be like ryan leaf...
But. I do believe she is on her way to the nomination. You can feel be & file democrats are now consolidating with institutional democrats.
Her campaign reminds me of the GOP primary in 1999. Ironically her strength reminds me of a man named Gov. George W. furnish in 1999.
This is Not John Kerry of 04 or Gore of 00 in terms of concern with personality political skills being likeable to your average american.
Let's put it this way she is much more electable than Kerry or even Gore was in 2000. ( and Gore really won)
That's the frightening possibility for Obama and Edwards.. and why they are going nuts with their attacks. This week at Edwards rallies and on TV campaign spokesmen are saying. "The Clintons screwed us!". Pretty desperate stuff.
At a certain point. Democrats are going to mentally act beyond the primary battle and go away engaging the thoughts of a very strong frontrunner taking it to the Republicans. If (when) that happens. Obama and Edwards ordain be toast.
Those are opinions on which candidate is beat on the "issues." "Issues" opinions take a very long time to dress around years. It is very unlikely that either Obama or Edwards would at any inform gain the upperhand on "health care," "education," "Abortion," "the economy," etc.
Also don't drop that December is traditionally a "frozen polls" month when it comes to nomination (as people concentrate on family holiday preparations etc.)
The next month should be exciting for Hillary supporters- I evaluate the endorsements to start pouring in especially after her great fundraising numbers. Democrats will be to go away consolidating behind someone to prepare for the General Election and she is now the logical choice for that. The polls should show her getting stronger and stronger and I can't act to see the new ones(I know some people don't believe in polls but I do especially when my candidate has broken 50 percent in the national ones)
I evaluate if she makes it thru October to Mid-Nov with her lead intact she will more than likely secure the nomination. I think the whole family first-politics never starts in the week leading up to Thanksgiving. You're either the host of a big dinner or you making travel plans to go to the big dinner. This then slides into the Holidays which eats up much of December and the beginning of Jan. The news ordain be dominated by holiday stories about where to get really good fruitcake and the house with a million lights. Edwards has been coming on strong with the attacks this week. I'm definitely waiting see who (Hill herself or a surrogate) hits back on her behalf. He really has a small window to get noticed so I understand why he is starting the attacks now.
but I'm spending more measure on the conservative sites these days. The strategy is to tag her as far left. 'socialist' and ironically link her to MoveOn. I call her a 'Super Atomic Security Mom'.
This whole right-left extremist anti-Hillary cartel might bring home the bacon to her advantage. It's the extremists on both wings who hate Hillary -- she has the vital dynamic bear on.
What's a good strategy for male independents/color collar male dems--to get past any latent sexism? (1) HRC is cause to be perceived and tough and (2) these men have daughters they love. "She could change up to be President."[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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