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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, it is the independents and moderates in a handful of swing states who decide elections.  And HRC's numbers in those states are not favorable at this time, 15+ months before the election.  [/quote]
A couple posters (or maybe just one very active person) are pitching this storyline about Hillary Clinton's favorable ratings, claiming she will lose to some other Democrat candidate or to a Republican nominee.  I personally suspect you're a Conservative hoping to sway Democrats to pick a different nominee, because you fear she will mop the floor with any Republican candidate currently running.  But in any event, you're simply wrong on the numbers.  Here's a actual summary of current polling data:

Hillary Clinton is leading Bernie Sanders [i]by 40 percentage points[/i] across six different polls.  58% of Democrat voters would choose Clinton as the nominee, and only 18% would choose Sanders.  Clinton leads Sanders by 28% in Iowa, 15% in NH, and 42% in SC.  Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democrat nominee.  http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/2016_democratic_presidential_nomination-3824.html

Hillary Clinton leads every potential Republican nominee by big margins in national polling across registered voters, including Fox's own polling.  A 5% win is an absolute landslide victory, because as you correctly note it's the independents and moderates in swing states who decide elections.  Those independents and moderates prefer Clinton over any of the Republican candidates.
Clinton vs. Trump?  Clinton wins by 16%
Clinton vs. Christie?  Clinton wins by 11%
Clinton vs. Ted Cruz?  Clinton wins by 9%
Clinton vs. Walker?  Clinton wins by 9%
Clinton vs. Rubio?  Clinton wins by 8%
Clinton vs. Chris Christie?  Clinton wins by 7%
[b]Clinton vs. Bush?  Clinton wins by 5%
Clinton vs. Rand Paul?  Clinton wins by 4%[/b]
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/2016_presidential_race.html[/quote]

So...HRC is only ahead of Bush and Paul by just over the margin of error for polls? And doesn't lead weaker candidates like Christie and Rubio by that much. For someone that has been deemed a candidate for 9 years and running solid for the past 2 that doesn't seem like much.[/quote]

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