Poll: Hillary Clinton "Unfavorable

For the first time in years, more Americans find Hillary Clinton "unfavorable" than "favorable" - although she is still the clear leading potential Democratic nominee for 2016.

The change is likely due to a plethora of recent bad press around the Benghazi scandal, despite the fact that reports from The Weekly Standard, ABC News, and CBS News were later debunked and retracted.

The YouGov/Economist poll makes it obvious that public discontent with Clinton is a recent phenomenon:

During much of her tenure as Secretary of State, Clinton enjoyed generally positive ratings, ratings that continued through much of the spring following her departure from Foggy Bottom: from January through April her net favorability numbers fell below +15 only three times.

But starting around mid-May of this year, the positive feelings began to recede and the secretary’s image has not recovered since, with nearly half of Americans (48%) now holding an unfavourable opinion of her, compared to 46% with a favourable one, for a net rating of -2.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/nicolebailey/2013/12/02/poll-hillary-clinton-unfavorable-n1756047?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm