Hillary Clinton’s Unfavorability Ratings are Driven by Media Coverage
If you pay any attention to the media this campaign season, one thing you would hear is how unpopular both presumptive nominees of the two parties are. The latest poll numbers of Clinton and Trump’s favorable and unfavorable are as follows: Hillary Clinton: 43% Favorable 55% Unfavorable Donald Trump: 29% Favorable 70% Unfavorable
According to the media, these are the worst poll numbers of recent presidential candidates in our history. As horrible as those numbers look, the more important questions are what do the numbers mean? How do they arrive at these numbers? Does it really mean that 224 million and 176 million out of the current 320 million Americans hate Trump …show more content…
By their own admission, the House Select Committee on Benghazi was set up for the sole reason of generating hatred towards her. By and large, they were unsuccessful with the Committee but they succeeded in sowing doubt among the public about her entire time and body of work as Secretary of State. Note that Benghazi happened in September 2012 and 8 exhaustive investigations by bipartisan House and Senate Committees, have concluded there’s was nothing she could have done to avoid the attack. In spite of Benghazi and the investigations, she still left office with almost 70% approval …show more content…
But I also wanted to show that she did not do anything personally to offend the 30% of Americans (approximately 96 million) who have an unfavorable opinion of her now than when she left office as Secretary of State. The media is fond of asking people if they trust her. They ask if she is “trustworthy”. If you believe the polls, 55% (approximately 176 million) of Americans do not trust her or think she is trustworthy. Give our divided political system, that’s a very disingenuous way to interpret the
If you pay any attention to the media this campaign season, one thing you would hear is how unpopular both presumptive nominees of the two parties are. The latest poll numbers of Clinton and Trump’s favorable and unfavorable are as follows: Hillary Clinton: 43% Favorable 55% Unfavorable Donald Trump: 29% Favorable 70% Unfavorable
According to the media, these are the worst poll numbers of recent presidential candidates in our history. As horrible as those numbers look, the more important questions are what do the numbers mean? How do they arrive at these numbers? Does it really mean that 224 million and 176 million out of the current 320 million Americans hate Trump …show more content…
By their own admission, the House Select Committee on Benghazi was set up for the sole reason of generating hatred towards her. By and large, they were unsuccessful with the Committee but they succeeded in sowing doubt among the public about her entire time and body of work as Secretary of State. Note that Benghazi happened in September 2012 and 8 exhaustive investigations by bipartisan House and Senate Committees, have concluded there’s was nothing she could have done to avoid the attack. In spite of Benghazi and the investigations, she still left office with almost 70% approval …show more content…
But I also wanted to show that she did not do anything personally to offend the 30% of Americans (approximately 96 million) who have an unfavorable opinion of her now than when she left office as Secretary of State. The media is fond of asking people if they trust her. They ask if she is “trustworthy”. If you believe the polls, 55% (approximately 176 million) of Americans do not trust her or think she is trustworthy. Give our divided political system, that’s a very disingenuous way to interpret the