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Donald Trump has a lot going against him in this election. The Republican Party is struggling to unify behind him.[9] His poll numbers among black and Hispanic voters are historically horrendous. [5]The electoral map is tilted badly against him ( or any Republican ).
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And yet, despite all of that,[3] Trump not only remains within shouting distance of Hillary Clinton in most swing state and national polls but also appears to be gaining ground of late.[12] Why? Because Clinton is not only deeply disliked but deeply distrusted by large swaths of the electorate. And in a binary choice election, if you don’t like Option A, you get Option B — Clinton’s worsening image ratings give Trump a fighting chance to win.[7]
Take the new New York Times-CBS national poll. Asked whether Clinton was honest and trustworthy or not,[9] 67 percent (!) said she was not 67% Sure,[6] that number includes near unanimity among Republicans ( 93 percent say Clinton is not honest and trustworthy) but it also includes three-quarters ( 74 % ) of independents and more than 1 in 3 ( 37 % ) self-identified Democrats.[1]
That’s absolutely remarkable. Stunning, really.
Now, Trump’s numbers on the honest and trustworthy question are not exactly praiseworthy.[13] More than 6 in 10 ( 62 % ) say the presumptive Republican nominee is not honest and trustworthy,[7] including 32 percent of self-identified Republicans.
But here’s the thing: [8]Trump’s appeal is rooted in a willingness to blow up the old order. Everything he stands for is not just anti-establishment but also anti-the-way-we-have-long-been-thinking-about-and-conducting-politics.[11] Clinton is the exact opposite.[9] She is the status quo. She is steadiness, continuity, experience.
Follow @newslexpointJudging Donald Trump by any sort of “normal” political standard is impossible.
People have different expectations of who he should be and how he should act. [5]That’s not true for Clinton. She wins by being seen as the uber-bureaucrat — someone who best knows how to make the ungainly federal system work for average people.[6]
Clinton, finally,[4] seems to have acknowledged just how problematic her honest-and-trustworthy numbers are for her chances of winning this fall. [2]She has moved from jokingly responding to questions about those numbers (“Well, that hurts my feelings!”) to admitting that she needs to work on building trust with a skeptical public.[6] “I personally know I have work to do on this front,” Clinton said late last month.
That shift is a recognition that Clinton needs to move her trust numbers to win while Trump probably doesn’t.[3] ( When voting for chaos and total upheaval,[8] all the old rules go out the window). That her numbers on questions of honesty and trustworthiness are getting worse not better should give Trump and Republicans a glimmer of hope that he can actually win this race. Or, more accurately, that Clinton can lose it.[12]
Source: Washington post
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