2016 Postmortem

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(118,636 posts) Mon Sep 28, 2015, 09:29 PM Sep 2015

Hillary Clinton's Image Improves Among Democrats

Hillary Clinton's Image Improves Among Democrats

by Frank Newport at Gallup

http://www.gallup.com/opinion/polling-matters/185939/hillary-clinton-image-improves-among-democrats.aspx?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_content=morelink&utm_campaign=syndication

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Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's image has picked up among Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents over the last two weeks. Clinton now has a favorable rating of 73% and an unfavorable rating of 20%, yielding an overall net favorable score of +53. Her net favorable score had dropped to as low as +46 earlier in September.

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One problem Clinton does not have is name identification. Her familiarity score has consistently been over 90% since Gallup began tracking in mid-July.

From a big-picture perspective, Clinton's image among Democrats clearly deteriorated as the campaign progressed during the summer and into September, in part as a result of the controversy over her emails while she was secretary of state. Her net favorable score had been as high as +62 in early August -- thus leading to a 16-point drop between that time and mid-September.

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Now, as noted, her image has begun to improve. We rely on two-week rolling averages to provide large sample sizes and stable estimates when trending the candidates' images, but a look at just the last seven days through Sept. 27 shows that her net favorable image among Democrats is at +57, suggesting a clear upward trajectory.

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