Oh, and MORE American are warming to Hillary Clinton as a better choice for your current job….
I guess things haven’t changed in the last year in a half when the majority of those who voted for President in 2016 did NOT pick you by millions and you managed to worm your way into the White House…
Americans, by a wide margin (56 percent to 37 percent), think Barack Obama was a better president than Donald Trump has been, according to a CNN poll of adults released this week. Americans think Hillary Clinton would have been a better president than Trump has been, but by a much smaller margin (47 percent to 44 percent).
These numbers aren’t that surprising, but they are weird.
First, Clinton and Obama have very similar public policy views. They’re both Democrats, of course, but more than that, they’re the same type ofDemocrat: left of center but not super liberal.
Maybe Americans think Obama was particularly good as president at, say, giving eulogies, in a way Clinton would not have been. And, sure, at earlier stages in their careers, Clinton and Obama had different views on issues, most notably the Iraq War. But by the end of the 2016 campaign, they were basically aligned on everything. The gap between Obama-Trump (19 percentage points) and Clinton-Trump (3 percentage points) is really large, and I’m not sure it’s based on policy differences.
Second, Obama’s 19-point advantage over Trump is huge. Obama is not some hypothetical figure: He ran for president twice, and 46 percent (2008) and then 47 percent (2012) of the country voted for the other candidate. Trump is not John McCain or Mitt Romney, you might say, and that’s fair. But count me skeptical that an actual Obama-Trump head-to-head race would have produced such a blowout. My bet is that strong support from Republicans and Republican-leaning independents would have gotten Trump into at least the low 40s in such a contest. And, yes, I get that the poll asked who would be a better president, not who people would vote for. But the Clinton-Trump numbers seem much closer to how Americans actually act on their political preferences: On Election Day in 2016, the former secretary of state won 48 percent of the vote nationally, compared with Trump’s 46 percent. That roughly parallels who Americans think would be the better president…..
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According to a story on Politicalwire this morning Trump wants the midterms to be all about him. The thought being a vote for a Republican–any Republican–is a vote for him.
You know–more stuff a “secret Democrat” would do.