White Lies Matter

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Free Beacon:

How bad is Hillary Clinton’s image? This bad:

 

Fifty-six percent of Americans view her unfavorably, according to the Huffington Post pollster trend.

 

One-third of New York Democratic primary voters say she is neither honest nor trustworthy.

 

Her image, writes Dan Balz, “is at or near record lows among major demographic groups.”

 

Like, all of them.

 

Among men, she is at minus 40. Among women, she is at minus 9. Among whites, she is at minus 39. Among white women, she is at minus 25. Among white men, she is 17 positive, 72 negative. Her favorability among whites at this point in the election cycle is worse than President Obama’s ever has been … Among African Americans nationally the NBC-Wall Street Journal poll shows her with a net positive of 51 points. But that’s down 13 points from her first-quarter average and is about at her lowest ever. Among Latinos, her net positive is just two points, down from plus 21 points during the first quarter.

 

Emphasis mine. No doubt some of this degradation is related to a primary that has turned out to be much more competitive than Clinton imagined. But it’s also worth asking why that campaign has lasted so much longer than we assumed.

 

A lot of the reason is Clinton: her tin ear, her aloofness, her phony eagerness to please, her suspicion of the press and of outsiders, her let us say complicated relationship with the truth, the blithe way in which she dissembles and deceives.