Showing posts with label trustworthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trustworthy. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Hillary's False Narrative On The Suppresion of Black Votes

For weeks now, Hillary Clinton has gotten in front of both black and racially mixed audiences, and made the claim that the black vote is being suppressed by the Republicans.  If that was true, why has black voting activity risen every year since 1996:

Source Census Bureau (link below)
In fact, based on their percentage of the population, black citizens have the highest voting participation of any other ethnic group in the country at 66.2%.  If Republicans are truly trying to suppress the black vote, they are doing a lousy job of it.

I only wish that blacks would wake up to the fact she is desperately pandering to them  with outright lies.  Claims like this are probably behind the fact that she polls so low on trustworthiness and honesty.

References:

Census Bureau Report on Diversity In Voting: https://www.census.gov/prod/2013pubs/p20-568.pdf

Hillary Clinton Says G.O.P. Rivals Try to Stop Young and Minority Voters: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/05/us/politics/hillary-clinton-says-republican-rivals-try-to-stop-young-and-minority-voters.html

Hillary Clinton names and shames Republicans for voting restrictions: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/hillary-clinton-early-voting-rights-gop-118636.html

Hillary's Lawyer Sues Ohio To Thwart Voter Suppression: http://chicago.suntimes.com/other-views/7/71/600061/hillarys-lawyer-sues-ohio-to-thwart-voter-suppression-tactics-that-helped-the-gop-steal-ohio-in-2004

Poll; Clinton honest trustworthy problem extends to swing states: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/17/politics/poll-2016-elections-hillary-clinton-trustworthy/

Hillary Clinton not honest and trustworthy, voters say: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/28/hillary-clinton-not-honest-and-trustworthy-voters-/

Hillary Clinton: As honest and trustworthy as Donald Trump: Almost six in ten of those polled said that Hillary Clinton lacks those two traits: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/30/voters-want-someone-who-is-honest-and-trustworthy-in-2016-they-dont-think-thats-hillary-clinton/

Thursday, June 25, 2015

Hillary's Shrinking Coronation Crown

Well before Hillary Clinton announced she was officially a candidate for the Presidency, it was assumed that the political contest would be more of a coronation, culminating in her  adornement with a perfectly fitting crown.  Now however, after the revelations about her private emails, the focus on problems with the Clinton Foundation, and her exposed backdoor dealings with Sidney Blumenthal, it appears her crown may be withering away as her chances fade away.

In a recent CNN poll, nearly 60% thought she was untrustworthy.  Less than half said she cared about people like themselves; and, half said she was not inspiring; with some of these numbers slipping in just the last 3 months.

If Hillary Clinton's standing among the electorate continues to fall apart, it his highly unlikely that she will be the nominee of the Democratic party in much the same way she was pushed aside by Barack Obama in 2008.

References:

CNN: Poll: New speed bumps for Clinton: http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/02/politics/hillary-clinton-2016-poll-gop-field-close/index.html