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VIDEO - Hillary Clinton and Character

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Joe Kelley, Host of the KRMG Morning News
@ April 17, 2008 7:10 AM
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According to the latest numbers, Hillary Clinton has a credibility problem -

Her advisers' efforts to deal with the problem -- by having her acknowledge her mistakes and crack self-deprecating jokes -- do not seem to have succeeded. Privately, the aides admit that the recent controversy over her claim to have ducked sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia probably made things worse.

Clinton is viewed as "honest and trustworthy" by just 39 percent of Americans, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, compared with 52 percent in May 2006. Nearly six in 10 said in the new poll that she is not honest and trustworthy. And now, compared with Obama, Clinton has a deep trust deficit among Democrats, trailing him by 23 points as the more honest, an area on which she once led both Obama and John Edwards.

Among Democrats, 63 percent called her honest, down 18 points from 2006; among independents, her trust level has dropped 13 points, to 37 percent. Republicans held Clinton in low regard on this in the past (23 percent called her honest two years ago), but it is even lower now, at 16 percent. Majorities of men and women now say the phrase does not apply to Clinton; two years ago, narrow majorities of both did.

Do you share this dis-trust of Hillary Clinton?



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  • Is it really lying...
    ... if everyone knows you're lying? I trust the Clintons the way I trust the Stipes. I know they're dishonest, I know they lie, I know they cheat, and I know they're out for their own benefit and aggrandizement. They have big appetites (money, sex, power) and few scruples. I can deal with that. Better the evil you know, right?

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