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Hillary Thought She Had A Leg Up On The Competition, Then Reality Smacked Her In The Face
Compounding the toll her email scandal has already taken on her once-presumptive Democrat presidential primary bid are reports that Hillary Clinton is struggling to shore up the support of women – particularly young adults – on a large scale.
#FYI for the confused. I am not a paid troll. I don’t like negative images of women to make political points. I support #Bernie not Hillary.
— Dale Freeman (@DaleF3) November 3, 2015
“We’re not necessarily going to vote for someone just because they’re a woman,” one female college student said of other women in her generation. “A lot of us are just trying to look at the candidate.”
POLL: Hillary rapidly losing support from women https://t.co/j2RJXWwdRz pic.twitter.com/hQ0sc3bv9w — pete602 (@petefrt) November 2, 2015
She is not alone, The Hill’s Amie Parnes reported, citing one political strategist who acknowledged Clinton’s perceived shortcomings despite personally supporting her as the party’s nominee.
“To them it seems obvious and indisputable that if Clinton doesn’t win,” the source said, “some other woman will – and soon.”
Roughly the same proportion of men and women support Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton https://t.co/UVyiSZO2JK
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) October 31, 2015
Clinton herself, the strategist surmised, strikes many young women as “too old, too moderate and too caught up in another time.”
A Clinton aide quoted by The Hill repeated the campaign line that the former secretary of state has a message – including issues including abortion and wage equality – that resonates with young women.
“We will continue working to make sure her policies and priorities are reaching young women and that they know Hillary is fighting for them.”
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/hillary-thought-she-had-a-leg-up-on-the-competition-then-reality-smacked-her-in-the-face/
