Voters Find Hillary Clinton Vastly More Qualified Than Trump To Be President

This poll result shows Donald Trump's single biggest problem VOX

A majority of American voters simply don’t think Trump's qualified to serve as president. And the problem goes beyond qualifications — they don’t think he has the personality or temperament to serve as president (67 to 31 percent), they don’t think he has a solid understanding of world affairs (64 to 33 percent), and they don’t think he’s honest and trustworthy (62 to 34 percent).

This is how Trump’s candidacy differs from Clinton’s -- in terms of competency. Not a day goes by without media implying that Hillary Clinton's unfavorable ratings will keep her from being elected president. It's the only poll result the media cares about, along with the trust issue. In the new Washington Post/ABC News poll, the 50 percent unfavorable rating Clinton posts is better than Trump’s 63 percent unfavorable rating. More important and consistently in polls, while many Americans don’t like Hillary Clinton personally, they do believe she can do the job. Majorities think her qualified to serve as president, compared to Trump (60 to 38 percent), that she has the personality and temperament to serve as president (61 to 38 percent), and say she has a solid knowledge of world affairs (72 to 25 percent).

If these poll results applied to anyone but Hillary Clinton, the media would call them 'formidable'. 

GOP Senator Susan Collins: Why I Can't Support Trump Washington Post

It's true that Sen. Collins says that she can't support either major presidential candidate. Perhaps. Hillary Clinton did co-host her bridal shower a couple years back. The voting booth is private for a reason and there is strong speculation that Collins will run for governor of Maine in the future.

"I had hoped that we would see a “new” Donald Trump as a general-election candidate — one who would focus on jobs and the economy, tone down his rhetoric, develop more thoughtful policies and, yes, apologize for ill-tempered rants. But the unpleasant reality that I have had to accept is that there will be no “new” Donald Trump, just the same candidate who will slash and burn and trample anything and anyone he perceives as being in his way or an easy scapegoat. Regrettably, his essential character appears to be fixed, and he seems incapable of change or growth."

50 GOP Officials Warn Donald Trump Would Put Nation's Security at Risk New York Magazine

Among the most prominent signatories are Michael V. Hayden, a former director of both the C.I.A. and the National Security Agency; John D. Negroponte, who served as the first director of national intelligence and then deputy secretary of state; and Robert B. Zoellick, another former deputy secretary of state, United States trade representive and, until 2012, president of the World Bank. Two former secretaries of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff, also signed, as did Eric S. Edelman, who was Vice President Dick Cheney’s national security adviser and as a top aide to Robert M. Gates when he was secretary of defense.
Robert Blackwill and James Jeffrey, two key strategists in Mr. Bush’s National Security Council, and William H. Taft IV, a former deputy secretary of defense and ambassador to NATO, also signed. Mr. Blackwill, a former aide to Henry A. Kissinger, is expected to endorse Mrs. Clinton this week.

Donald Trump's Support Among Republican Women Starts To Slide New York Times

Donald Trump comes from the 'never let them see you sweat' school of publicity. Everything is just great, according to the Trumpster, even though Republican women are leaving the candidate by the droves.  A recent series of defections by high-profile Republican women are grabbing the attention of rank and file Repubican women, as leaders put 'country before party' with promises to oppose Mr. Trump as being emotionally unfit and unstable for the presidency and also a "menace to national security". 

“For people like me, who are Republican but reasonable and still have our brains attached, it’s hard to see Trump as a reasonable, sane Republican,” said Dina Vela, a project manager in San Antonio who said she had always voted Republican and remained wary of Hillary Clinton. But to her own surprise, she has started visiting Mrs. Clinton’s campaign website and plans to vote for her.

Donald Trump needs a miracle to win Washington Post

DO NOT LET UP!! We must BLOW TRUMP out of the water. We must send his orange hair mop and crude antics packing with a roar that this is NOT America, flawed as we are. Because another bigot will be standing in line behind him, and if the election is close, that right-winger led by angry white men without education will also claim the mantle of the presidency. AND we must work in state legislatures to bring common sense governing into the states. NO MORE WAR ON WOMEN'S BODIES!!! So do NOT let up! ~ Anne

"Journalistic neutrality allegedly forces us to say that the race isn’t over until November, and most media organizations prefer to hype the presidential contest to generate viewers and readers rather than explain why a photo finish is unlikely.
But a dispassionate examination of the data, combined with a cold-blooded look at the candidates, the campaigns and presidential elections, produces only one possible conclusion: Hillary Clinton will defeat Donald Trump in November, and the margin isn’t likely to be as close as Barack Obama’s victory over Mitt Romney."

Hillary Clinton Headlines Aug. 10, 2016

Clinton urges GOP congress to take emergency action on Zika The Washington Post

Poll: Clinton's lead over Trump triples in Wisconsin Politico

Top Democrats warn against writing off Trump Politico

Polls: Clinton's Lead Over Trump Increases in Three Battleground States NBC News

How Trump's poll decline could lead to a self-perpetuating death spiral for his campaign VOX

Watchdog Group Files Complaint with IRS Against Trump Foundation The Daily Beast

Is Florida Even a Swing State Anymore? Daily Beast

Georgia Poll: Clinton Leads by 7 Points The Hill

The Polls Aren't Skewed: Trump Really Is Losing Badly FiveThirtyEight

Why Hillary Clinton wouldn't be a foreign policy hawk as president VOX

Trump: Without id law, voters will vote 15 times for Clinton Politico

Why Some Republican Women Are Voting for Hillary Clinton Slate

 

Clinton Opens Double-Digit Leads Nationally & In Swing States | Women Rule!!

Poll: Clinton Opens Up Double-Digit Lead Over Trump NBC News

Hillary Clinton has increased her lead over Donald Trump,  now holding a 10-point lead over the Republican candidate, 51 pts to 41 pts, according to results from the latest NBC News|SurveyMonkey Weekly Election Tracking poll

Clinton's expanding lead is up from 8 points last week. The 10-point margin is the largest in the NBC News|SurveyMonkey tracking poll since the two-way general election match-up launched in early May. 

 

Trump Calls Clinton a 'Monster', Suggests She Is 'Brainwashed' Slate

Facing dropping poll numbers, Republican presidential candidate has honed in on a strategy. At a time when numerous media outlets are writing/talking about Donald Trump's narcissistic personality and inability to stay on message, Trump is taking his attack on Hillary Clinton to a new level. Trump called Clinton 'a monster' and 'unstable' in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Earlier, in Des Moines, Iowa, Trump called Clinton such choice words as 'unbalanced,' 'unstable,” and “dangerous,; warning that if she’s elected it would lead to 'the destruction of this country from within.'

The only problem with the Trump strategy is that it's other Republicans who are making this attack against Trump, referring to his personality and being co-opted by Vladimir Putin. Does he think we don't understand the difference?

“Unstable Hillary Clinton, lacks the judgment, temperament and moral character to lead this country, and I believe that so strongly," Trump said. "She’s really pretty close to unhinged, and you’ve seen, you’ve seen it a couple times. The people in the background know it, the people who know her know it and she’s like an unbalanced person.”'

Clinton Takes Double-Digit Lead Over Trump In New Monmouth Poll TPM

Hillary Clinton extended her lead over Donald Trump among registered voters, doubling down 46-34 pts in a 4-way split. Johnson got 7pts and Jill Stein 2 pt.

The poll was last taken before the start of the Republican National Convention, where Clinton led Trump 43 pts to 40 pts. The poll of registered voters was conducted by landline and cellphone Aug. 4-7, with an error of 3.5 pts.

Clinton Consolidates Lead Over Trump After Rough Week for Republicans Morning Consult

Hillary Clinton posted her highest poll numbers in months last week, commanding a 9-point lead over rival Donald Trump, according to Morning Consult’s latest poll.

Almost half (46 percent) of registered voters surveyed Aug. 4-5 (46 percent) said they would choose Clinton, the Democratic nominee, if the presidential election were to be held now. That number has increased 3 pt over last week's poll and is up 6pts since July 24.

Meanwhile Trump is sinking. The Republican nominee, is still the choice for 37 percent of voters, down from 40 percent in late July and 44 percent immediately following the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.

Hillary Clinton Headlines Aug 9, 2016

President Trump and the future of the West Politico

Balance, Fairness and a Proudly Provocative Presidential Candidate New York Times

The truth about US manufacturing Christian Science Monitor

New Poll Shows Clinton Leading By Double Digits in Pennsylvania TPM

The (False) Globalization Narrative Real Clear Politics

Poll finds Clinton has widened lead ahead of Trump to 8 pts The Washington Post

Trump's economic advisers are also his biggest donors Politico

George W. Bush administration official announces support for Clinton over Trump The Washington Post