Hillary favorability rating fall to record low in NBC News poll.

[henster]

http://www.wsj.com/articles/both-parties-presidential-front-runners-increasingly-unpopular-1460898001

[madelka]

Nice try, but won't matter if she's running against the most unelectable Republican candidate in history.

[dax00]

Good. America is starting to see the snake for what it is: a snake.

[EliteLX]

Nice try, but won't matter if she's running against the most unelectable Republican candidate in history.

Sadly, this. Your fault, Republican Primary.

[Virginiá]

Honestly, this is the first presidential election I've paid significant attention to, so I must ask - Don't favorability ratings tend to drop in contested elections / when they go negative? They have dropped for both Clinton and Sanders iirc, though Sanders is still much higher.

If that's the case, will Clinton's favorability ratings go back up after July?

[MIKESOWELL]

Nice try, but won't matter if she's running against the most unelectable Republican candidate in history.

Yeah. It's sort of like Richard Nixon running against David Duke. Nixon was pretty bad,  but......

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Honestly, this is the first presidential election I've paid significant attention to, so I must ask - Don't favorability ratings tend to drop in contested elections / when they go negative? They have dropped for both Clinton and Sanders iirc, though Sanders is still much higher.

If that's the case, will Clinton's favorability ratings go back up after July?

There will be a sort of "rally around the nominee" effect, plus a natural syndrome of eventually responding "favorable" to someone you are voting for, on both sides. But it won't change the fact that if it is a Clinton vs. TRUMP election, both of them will be seen unfavorably by a majority of Americans throughout the election.

[ProgressiveCanadian]

Honestly, this is the first presidential election I've paid significant attention to, so I must ask - Don't favorability ratings tend to drop in contested elections / when they go negative? They have dropped for both Clinton and Sanders iirc, though Sanders is still much higher.

If that's the case, will Clinton's favorability ratings go back up after July?

Obama was around 60% at this point. I don't see her favrorables going up anytime soon.

[Virginiá]

Honestly, this is the first presidential election I've paid significant attention to, so I must ask - Don't favorability ratings tend to drop in contested elections / when they go negative? They have dropped for both Clinton and Sanders iirc, though Sanders is still much higher.

If that's the case, will Clinton's favorability ratings go back up after July?

There will be a sort of "rally around the nominee" effect, plus a natural syndrome of eventually responding "favorable" to someone you are voting for, on both sides. But it won't change the fact that if it is a Clinton vs. TRUMP election, both of them will be seen unfavorably by a majority of Americans throughout the election.

I suppose that makes sense. Still, even going back to her previous ratings some months ago would be better. What I wonder is just how low her job approval ratings will be if she becomes president. I mean, if she's so disapproved of right now, imagine when she's president and people begin blaming her for random things?

Hard to see her job approval rating going higher than 40% in that situation. I don't think I'd be crazy in saying that Hillary could be what finally causes the youth vote to swing back to 50/50 or worse.

[Joe Biden is your president. Deal with it.]

It will go up over the summer.

[IceSpear]

Good thing the Republicans are set to nominate Trump or Cruz, who are even more unpopular. Poor media, they made all this effort to help the Republicans destroy Hillary and coronate Rubio, and this is how they're repaid. LOL

[Joe Republic]

Not too surprising, considering 40% of her own party is currently supporting somebody else, and the Republicans have hated her guts since the '90s.  Once Bernie drops out and the convention has passed, her ratings should drift back up a little again.

[Vosem]

Good thing the Republicans are set to nominate Trump or Cruz, who are even more unpopular. Poor media, they made all this effort to help the Republicans destroy Hillary and coronate Rubio, and this is how they're repaid. LOL

Doesn't Cruz have roughly the same favorability as Hillary? It's _trump who's significantly more unpopular.

[Former Senator Haslam2020]

Good. America is starting to see the snake for what it is: a snake.

[Taco Truck 🚚]

Honestly, this is the first presidential election I've paid significant attention to, so I must ask - Don't favorability ratings tend to drop in contested elections / when they go negative? They have dropped for both Clinton and Sanders iirc, though Sanders is still much higher.

If that's the case, will Clinton's favorability ratings go back up after July?

Bernie is much more of an unknown and has been much less scrutinized and attacked than Hillary.  The right has been fixated on Hillary since the 90s.  Until two weeks ago no one knew who Bernie Sanders was.  I guarantee you if you asked the majority of Americans to say three factually correct things about Bernie they wouldn't be able to.  You get bad press... your favorability rating goes down.  I don't know why people are so shocked by this.  I mean that's why people sling mud at you.

If Hillary goes up against Donald Trump or Ted Cruz she wins.  End of story.  I don't care what her favorable/unfavorables are.  No one in their right mind thinks those two will beat her.  I mean anything is possible but a Trump or Cruz win is highly unlikely.

The country is so polarized right now I don't see any high profile person with a track record entering the general election with a 60% approval.  By definition 45% of the country is going to hate your guts just on principal.

[Phony Moderate]

She's quite objectively a sh**tty candidate but one who has luck on her side (i.e she's up against a GOP that is in a state of mental illness + her only real primary opposition is from a seventy-something socialist). I suspect just about any Democrat currently serving as a Governor, US Senator or US Representative would win as the Dem presidential nominee in November.

[IceSpear]

Good thing the Republicans are set to nominate Trump or Cruz, who are even more unpopular. Poor media, they made all this effort to help the Republicans destroy Hillary and coronate Rubio, and this is how they're repaid. LOL

Doesn't Cruz have roughly the same favorability as Hillary? It's _trump who's significantly more unpopular.

He's slightly worse last time I checked, but yeah, neither compares to Trump.

[Fmr President & Senator Polnut]

She'll rebound once the hardcore Sandernistas wake up to reality. These are usually very emotion-driven ratings.

[Ebsy]

Junk!

[Sir Mohamed]

Better than Drumpf's.

[jaichind]

Not too surprising, considering 40% of her own party is currently supporting somebody else, and the Republicans have hated her guts since the '90s.  Once Bernie drops out and the convention has passed, her ratings should drift back up a little again.

I agree, although I will make a similar argument for Trump or Cruz approval ratings as well.  The two nominees from Dem and GOP will have high negatives but not as high as today.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

As a Republican, I'd like to thank the Bernie hacks on this site and elsewhere for making this possible.

[Comrade Funk]

As a Republican, I'd like to thank the Bernie hacks on this site and elsewhere for making this possible.

The sad thing is that your joke of a party is so stupid (thanks to 50 years of pandering to Thurmond and Wallace), you're two options are even more hated.

[jaichind]

As a Republican, I'd like to thank the Bernie hacks on this site and elsewhere for making this possible.

Republicans should be the last ones laughing about the Democrats this year. The GOP is basically throwing the presidency (which was handed to them on a silver platter) away.

Yeah.  The best I can hope for as a pro-GOP partisan is for a close defeat for Cruz in the general election where GOP loses just a handful of seats in the House and keeps it close in the Senate.  Of course Sanders did to the GOP a favor.  If the scenario I painted above comes to pass the Clinton will go into her Presidency with fairly high negatives and as long as the economy will be soft we will be a looking at an anti-Dem mega-tide in 2018.

[Coolface Sock #42069]

As a Republican, I'd like to thank the Bernie hacks on this site and elsewhere for making this possible.

Republicans should be the last ones laughing about the Democrats this year. The GOP is basically throwing the presidency (which was handed to them on a silver platter) away.

Yeah.  The best I can hope for as a pro-GOP partisan is for a close defeat for Cruz in the general election where GOP loses just a handful of seats in the House and keeps it close in the Senate.  Of course Sanders did to the GOP a favor.  If the scenario I painted above comes to pass the Clinton will go into her Presidency with fairly high negatives and as long as the economy will be soft we will be a looking at an anti-Dem mega-tide in 2018.

If the party can be unified again by then like it was in 2014. Fat chance of that.

I don't think we'll fully understand how much damage Trump has done to the party and conservatism until we're well past the general election.